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- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
if we demand less, use less, and want less forever?" Jim Geisman continued this line of thought in saying, "Overall, I think growth is overrated unsustainable." Andrew Lianwarne suggested that "we need to reshape the way our economic View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
know that anyone can access these ideas.” Dina Gerdeman: Finance intimidates people largely because the system is so complex, but you say there’s an easier way to understand it. Can you explain how? Mihir Desai: Finance is often talked... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Events - Business History
1960s and developed a research agenda for scholars seeking to overcome those roadblocks. In addition to offering a retrospective analysis of where corporate sustainability has fallen short, the conference explored the incentives, organizational designs, and... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
important later on the experiment (unconscious thought), or to perform the task while believing the experiment had ended (control condition). Afterwards, sequence memory and intrusions of the film were measured. In line with predictions,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law School View Details
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
future. These preferences can in some cases last over decades. The report jogs your memory for your next visit or helps someone else pick up the solicitation thread. Two relationships for an educational institution that evolved over a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
$2,500 a month, the cost of a middle-sized punched-card tabulator. Its revenues of $2 billion helped to finance the commercializing of the world's most successful data processor, the System 360, a family of compatible computers. In 1963,... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective,... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Management." 2018 Malcolm P. Baker : Received the 2018 Robert F. Greenhill Award. Edward B. Berk : Received the 2018 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class’s HBS experience. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts New systems of accounting facilitated the oversight of complex financial View Details
- Web
Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
tools or using LSF job arrays . Requesting multiple CPUs on the HBSGrid When using parallel processing on shared compute systems, you need to indicate to the scheduler, the system software that manages workloads, that you wish to use... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap
Tech Master Series and New Venture competition we were not only able to provide entrepreneurs with $175k in capital, but we were also able to leverage HBS’s powerful network and prominence to shed light on a systemic issue present within... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
Gbadegesin has lived more than half of his life in the United States and speaks perfect English with a slight Midwestern accent, he is still at heart a Nigerian. Armed with his MBA, he will return home to launch an identification system... View Details
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an apprentice system that provides... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
you will have the strength to lift you up when you can’t do it yourself. Just like how Jenny did for me, and how I will do for Jenny infinite times over. Teresa Danso-Danquah (she/they), Class of 2024 My earliest memory of questioning my... View Details