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01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

own affairs and showing its determination to do things right, there is a tremendous opportunity for learning." For his 1992 book, South Africa: Prospects for Successful Transition, which he coedited, HBS... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa Ouellet. The study began by asking... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

training. All the postmortems of the current collapse show people making unconscious or malfeasant choices. At the MBA level, it’s encouraging that HBS and other leading business schools are reexamining... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

audience for your HBS Class Day speech, you have an extremely popular TED Talk, you're an in-demand speaker generally. In the book, you recount your first speech, though, as a fifth grader in Miss Davis's class. Can you talk a little bit... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 117 (2012) Abstract We investigate how, why and when activating economic schemas reduces the compassion that individuals extend to others in need when delivering bad news. Across three experiments, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School Virtual Tour This exhibition explores representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special Collections and the View Details

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Annual Cost of Attendance | MBA

for a 2 bedroom apartment. Married with Two Children Housing cost is based on average area market rate for a 2 bedroom apartment. See Previous Year Important Details 9 Months of Classes, 12 Months of Rent The academic year is nine months. While View Details

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the Harvard Business School campus. One... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Nov 2012
News

First and Goal

on an undefeated team that earned a #5 national ranking, Swearengin ended his playing career as part of a thrilling 38-31 victory over the Washington Huskies in the 1993 Rose Bowl.) Football, Swearengin says, gave him self-confidence, taught him personal... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

effects, we look within multinational firms and show that higher levels of bilateral trust between the multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

donors were not patients, there was no official record indicating that they might be available for a kidney exchange. In 2004, he and fellow economists Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver coauthored a paper showing that the kidney exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and daylong program of events in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

research—and how academics could better help improve the work of government. The workshop is just one example of how HBS scholars are using their research to make a difference in government policy. Some, like Michael E. Porter or Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2025
News

Joy to the World

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

industry. But research at HBS and other places1 shows that within-industry differences in profitability and returns are typically much greater than across industries. Buffett knows this, investing in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Endo Pharmaceuticals (F): Appeals Court Ruling Harvard Business School Supplement 806-082 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806082 Epodia: Demise of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

eventually starting one's own business was clearly a significant part of the American Dream. "Everyone wanted to get out of uniform and stop being a number, and they wanted to have something of their own to show for themselves," recalls... View Details

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

enhancements (did you know there is a synthetic shoe odor molecule you can buy? It smells.), pitching a new retailer, making a new animated GIF of feet sweating or something else wacky, designing packaging for a different section of a retail store, and so much more.”... View Details

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

concentrated long-term family ownership, few shareholders, and family management. This structure was successful within the historical context of the 1960s but came under attack during the crisis-ridden decades that followed. By tracing these changes, the paper... View Details

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