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- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
to study successful river transport infrastructures have assured him that similar results can be realized in South America. Through it all, the 89-year-old visionary relies on the steadfast support of his wife, Helena, swims at least a... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
make each of the key HBS Executive Education facilities greener, healthier places: Esteves Hall, McArthur Hall, Tata Hall. You can rest assured that the Harvard dining services team strives to deliver meals in the most sustainable way... View Details
- Web
Global Reach | Baker Library
Global Reach Businessmen and governments in nearly all countries have recognized the need for capable administrators, trained to act in a complex, fast-changing, and increasingly interdependent world, as the best means of assuring... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
HBS is optimized by having work experience,” says Andrea Kimmel (MBA ’03), associate director of MBA marketing. “At the same time, we want to assure students that in many cases, two years is enough.” To assist students in getting work... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
what we must do to assure a second great century for Harvard Business School.” With this issue, we are introducing a new feature, Investing in HBS, that highlights news and information about alumni gift giving and its impact on realizing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
the assurance that you’ll share the hard truths quickly. “It ultimately catalyzed them to have more trust in me because they knew I’d be honest.” Victoria Montgomery Brown is CEO and cofounder of the digital media company Big Think. Her... View Details
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Bibliography | Manuscript Collections | Trade Publications Manuscript Collections Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Records, 1870–1919 . Baker Library Historical Collections,... View Details
- Web
From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations | Information Technology
Quality Assurance Testing Corbett Weinberg, Principal QA, SDET Abbas Aliyev, Principal QA, SDET What did you learn during the Hackathon? When Quality Assurance (QA) teams test an app or service, determining... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
the quality of what's inside. We need the assurance of the Sunkist brand. A variant on this theme is ingredient branding: putting the brand of an ingredient on the outside of a product to increase its appeal. When is the provider of the... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
bias in Goldman Sachs’s underwriting model. (Goldman developed and issued the card.) Adding fuel to the fire, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak shared that the same thing had happened to him and his wife. Officials from the New York Department of Financial Services... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
5 Facts About HBS Conferences
The conferences at HBS are entirely student-organized and there are a lot of them. An outsider attending one of the conferences would probably think that a full-time staff organized the event, but I can assure readers that students do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
can assure you that there are more comfy sabbaticals options. Whatever sabbatical you do, disconnect and get away from your environment—the more radical the change, the better. I didn't even have a cell phone during my trips. "But I have... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
a replacement for his original HBS diploma, lost during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution. That upheaval saw Mr. Ji, a BOC official in Shanghai, get banished to the provinces for ten years. But those bad days were over, he assured... View Details
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
immediate steps to tighten quality assurance requirements on Mattel's suppliers. There has been no effort to duck behind blaming suppliers and distributors or, even worse, consumers—as Audi attempted to do in the famous unintended... View Details
- 28 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Health Care Initiative?
attend every health care event! The first few months at HBS can feel like you're drinking from the proverbial fire hose. However, rest assured that if you have an interest in health care and are looking for guidance, the HBS Health Care... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
women feel more comfortable about reporting an incident, Kanter says. “Nobody likes a complainer,” Kanter says. “So you need to have some anonymous mechanisms. You need to be assured that if you’re going to talk about what happened to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision
mixture between open and proprietary software will vary with the stage of development of the nation in which the company is based. Our survey showed that the relative importance of the initial cost of the software and what we term complementary costs—those involving... View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
had been undercut by Ameritrade and E*trade. Research identified a large middle market of investors, bruised by the end of the dot-com bubble, in need of more advice and brand assurance than Vanguard and Fidelity provided but without... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Describing how these entities transformed themselves by shifting from the traditional management doctrine based on strategy, structure, and systems, and embracing a new philosophy emphasizing purpose, process, and people, the authors draw valuable lessons for all... View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
chunk of potential managerial wealth, and shareholders can remain assured that incentives are well aligned. Managers will not, however, know if they should try to accelerate earnings or delay them. They will not know what stock price they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis