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14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

personal rapid transport, or PRT for short, has been percolating since the mid-1950s and is finally gaining ground, according to HBS professor Benjamin G. Edelman. Business and communities small and large are increasingly aware of PRT as... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

to the study, Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter and Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. In the edited remarks below, they discuss the findings and implications of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

multi-sided platform that facilitates interactions among real-estate developers and suppliers of green-building inputs (e.g., professional services or building materials)," the paper explains. (Toffel was well acquainted with the nuances... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 5 Modules, 30-35 Hours Download full syllabus 8 hrs Module 1 The Value of Brands Explore what a brand is and how it creates value for consumers. Understand why brands are among a company’s most valuable assets and evaluate... View Details

November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
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ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet

By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang

Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the Consumer Electronics Show, a Google meeting convinced him to go with a lower price point and co-branding as the Nexus 7. While his company would have a premier position at launch, companies like Samsung... View Details

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

Consulting and Research Limited MSc, Business Administration What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

for yourself, how buildings can have an impact on our health, and how leaders can have an impact on today's biggest issues. A list of the titles, authors, and their abstracts are included below. American Business History: A Very Short... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase production to leverage the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

http://www.people.hbs.edu/rgreenwood/shipsIA.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 513-703 Tyra Banks: Personal Branding No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/513703-PDF-ENG Harvard View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) Page Two This is... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

On January 1, 2021, Srikant Datar became the 11th Dean of Harvard Business School. Datar joined the HBS faculty in 1996 and had served in a range of leadership positions at HBS, most recently as the senior associate dean for University... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

change and effectively inspire and lead your team. "This was an excellent course with concepts that were immediately applicable to my consulting business." Kerri Roche Owner and Strategic Planner, Sift Strategic Planning at Sift Strategic Planning Master of View Details

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

remission, Somani drew on the lessons learned during that difficult time to launch an inspirational speaker platform called Silver Linings in an effort to champion resilience, advocacy, and mental wellbeing. Somani believes that silver... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

point in time. We have a historic, twenty-year window of opportunity to become a truly developed country,” he observes, noting that Microsoft offers a unique platform for using technology as an educational tool to help close the gap... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

Baldwin, Bo Becker, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 210-040 Franz Humer, CEO of the Roche Group, must decide whether to mount a hostile tender offer for the publicly owned shares of Roche's biotechnology subsidiary,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

business I've ever operated," says Whiteside, surveying a herd of Aberdeen Angus and Red Devon cattle from the cab of a 1992 Ford pickup with an odometer topping 143,000 miles. "For one thing, it involves nature, which you can't control.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

me graduating with a specialization in computing. In my senior year, I picked up a job at a small business selling open source services. This combination of baseline coding skills and open source knowledge got me to my first job at Red... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

paying much closer attention to boardroom composition. The movement is building momentum, with plenty of upsides for companies that rise to the challenge. “Board diversity has moved from being nice to do, to a business imperative,” says... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

businesses to serve them. Right? Now you have 10 or 20,000, or 100,000, people living in these urban cities. They need to cut their hair, they need to eat, they need to go watch movies, they need to do a bunch of things that will create... View Details

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