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- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the people. The deterioration... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance
relational contracts—a practice its rival Toyota successfully deployed—which are essential to all modern design and manufacturing. A focus on relational contracts could lead to superior performance. “Public support for economic growth has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Robots to the Rescue
firm has landed two rounds of private financing and placed pilot systems at operations of a major retailer and food company. If all goes as planned, Mountz sees “no limit to the number of companies that want to grow, expand, or modernize... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
incubators of innovation. Issue Focus: Innovation Innovating in Your Business Will This Alum Change Education? HBS Simulations Go High-Tech A Lesson in Israeli Entrepreneurship In the modern era, beginning after World War II, business’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit
Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism, an exhibit in the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, confirms there is still much to learn about railroads, whose scale and complexity spawned modern business’s management model. Recent... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
neglected in organizational theory, this publication, the culmination of more than a decade of research by the authors, presents important new ideas for how to organize them effectively. Creating Modern Capitalism Thomas K. McCraw, editor... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
to Angella about CAP, the challenges a modern nonprofit faces, and how a new breed of donors has shifted the sector. CAP'S CHARGE "We bring the experience of HBS alumni to nonprofits that may not otherwise be able to access those types of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
Railroad management used to be a hot topic at HBS, but that was a few decades before David Gunn (MBA '64) arrived at Soldiers Field. Too bad, because Gunn is a modern incarnation of the quintessential railroad man. These days, that... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
In a Modern Love column for the New York Times called “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,” Genevieve Kingston writes that she shared a birthday with her mother, Kristina Mailliard (MBA 1981), who loved to arrange elaborate... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
example of what a modern workplace should be—a leader in creating a more human workplace, where the heart is just as important as the head, and where we show that we care about each and every member of our team equally,” she writes. READ... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford Medical School, and the Brookings Institution to contribute educational content on the visual arts, medicine, and health care, respectively. “We’re also launching some... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
people to use them.” In one study exploring the country’s high birth rates, 1,031 women were randomly chosen to receive a voucher guaranteeing free and immediate access to a range of modern contraceptives through a private appointment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
provider behavior.” To that end, Ashraf has designed and conducted numerous field studies, including several in Zambia. One study targeted Zambia’s high birthrate with an experiment based on improving access to modern contraceptives. In... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
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Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
milestone, CEO Jennifer Hyman (MBA 2009), told Forbes that the company “has created a new consumer behavior of dynamic ownership and clothing rental has become an essential utility in our members’ lives.” Hyman goes on to say that RTR is meeting the market’s changing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Classics Enterprise
time with a hefty publisher’s advance. Soon he was funding and editing a series of classical histories, including Xenophon’s Hellenica, Arrian’s work on Alexander, and Polybius’s Histories. After a successful career in the oil-field equipment business, Strassler has a... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
The next time you get to work on time or find a parking spot with ease, you may have Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995) to thank. Since 2005, his company, INRIX, has been working to cure one of modern society’s biggest headaches—traffic congestion.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the View Details
- 05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage
says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Awards Recognize Excellence
Four HBS professors have received the annual Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching and contributions to student learning. The recipients are David Moss for his Creating the Modern Financial System course; Jan Rivkin for his... View Details