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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

production costs include, for example, Harvard Business Review's printing expense. They also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group's record of... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting - Research Computing Services

Running Jobs Monitoring Jobs & Troubleshooting 2ms Monitoring and Controlling Jobs Whether using a GUI or the command line, monitoring the progress of your jobs and... View Details

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

even more vigorously to assert who they are socially, psychically, and culturally," remarks Koehn. "As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

north-facing façade was restored, existing faculty offices were updated, and 30 new faculty offices were added. The updates incorporated modern digital media and resources, while creating accessible,... View Details

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

for a second restaurant location after a successful first location. The lesson I remember is that, when you start out, you spend the time getting everything exactly right: the best location, best chef, best manager, best opening date,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

beginning to change. That same year, the US Department of Defense established the Defense Innovation Unit in Silicon Valley to encourage early-stage companies in the sector. Tseng continued to work on Shield AI during his time at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

their global competitiveness. Their approach was simple: They centralized huge scale and built all the Toyotas in Toyoda City. Or they produced all the Panasonic VCRs out of Osaka. These huge, centralized, scale-intensive operations drove... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

disparaged him. But he defended his decision, saying, "I love the sport and want to do what's best for the sport. I guarantee in the long term, people will come back and thank me." The students in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

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Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

Column My column posted last week, “Under What Conditions Would You Hire a CEO ‘Displaced’ by #MeToo?,” raised much debate but also angry responses regarding the appropriateness of certain terms and labels. These prompted my editor View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

a Google doc or Slack. This is how virtual companies work. If you and I are working as a team, I can work in a Google doc and explain what I’ve done, and you can wake up in a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Development Organization controlled by a federally recognized tribe.[27] There are also $550 million for Bureau of Reclamation domestic water supply projects,[28] which funds the planning and construction of... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

engineer and graduate of MIT who became quality control officer at Polaroid; and Richard T. Kriebel, a gifted writer who became director of public relations. In 1934, Eastman... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

gravitas all around his work and reputation. But at the same time he was a scholar who reached a number of distinct groups of people. Yes, he established business history as important View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2017
News

Improving Health Care Delivery

through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

inside of the courtroom more than once), hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as a musical genre. Yet the company’s spare, functional Times Square offices don’t suggest any of these bad boy qualities — and neither... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

survey done on nonprofit leaders, managers often cited a preference for growth by branching, i.e., replicating the organization from one site to another and maintaining central control View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

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