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- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 28 Sep 2016
- Webinars: Career
5 Happiness Hacks That Drive Productivity, Sales, and Creativity
According to Harvard Business Review, happy people are 37% more productive, have 31% higher sales, and are three times more creative than their peers. In this webinar, Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) provides models to create lasting happiness including building diverse... View Details
Samuel C. Johnson II
Taking the helm of the family business in 1966, Johnson began a diversification plan to lessen the company’s exposure to the introduction of “no-wax” floors. He aggressively moved the company into the personal care field and developed a new line of recreational... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Eugene Holman
Holman’s greatest contribution to the company came soon after his election as chairman, when he began negotiating for 30% of the stock of the Arabian-American Oil Company, enjoying special concessions for crude oil, production, and refining in the Middle East. His... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 02 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail
interview, prototype development, and presentation components of FIELD enabled me to develop the soft skills needed to succeed in post MBA leadership positions. View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- Web
Charitable Gift Annuity - Alumni
Establishing a charitable gift annuity enabled Gary and Teri Roubos to make a bigger gift than they had thought possible while also fulfilling their financial goals. Let’s Work Together Anne McClintock Senior Director of Development,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
there’s one thing I’ve learned in business, it’s the power of rapid-fire experimentation: enabling your team to test, rapidly change, iterate, and test again. Run experiments with customers and let them vote, instead of relying on the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Brenda Bence (MBA 1991)
for what it enabled me to achieve. I want to help assure HBS continues to nurture the next generation of business leaders in their professional journeys.” (June 2016) Learn how you, too, can create a lasting legacy by remembering HBS in... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
simulation because they have skin in the game. They want to do well and they work all the harder when they can see very clearly whether they are doing better or worse than the other teams,” says Casadesus-Masanell. “The simulation enables... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
and has seen the power of collaboration in his work to cure cystic fibrosis. "Today it would be unfathomable to think that you could go to Harvard and not take courses in other schools." Realizing the vision of One Harvard will enable the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
"Technological change is enabling and driving globalization," he says. "In order to meet the challenges of rapid growth and change, companies are forming alliances, building a sense of community, and recognizing their role as both... View Details
Michael C. Ruettgers
Ruettgers was responsible for EMC’s focus on storage systems vs. memory boards – a move that enabled EMC to corner the storage network market and become one of the fastest growing companies in the United States. Ruettgers initiated a... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
artistic merit therein. The crowd identified breakout theater hits the experts sometimes ignored, but also backed a box office bomb. ©iStock.com/jganser "Crowdfunding has enabled a democratization of access [to funding]," Nanda says in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
The sole ownership model made a lot of sense for Apple early on, Andersen notes, but the collaborative Windows approach enabled Microsoft to become bigger, quicker. “Within AGR there’s this notion that you don’t want to share a ton of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
money on gift cards and provides a secure environment to exchange unwanted gift cards into cash. Superdome offers the first Building Integrated Photovoltaics worldwide to incorporate encapsulated CIGS thin-film on the surface of an insulated, eco-friendly composite... View Details
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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
knowledge base, where important information can be documented and maintained in perpetuity. It is now visible to all faculty, staff, and MBA students and is a cornerstone of enabling rapid self-service IT support going forward. Onboarded... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
business have helped him appreciate the importance of diversity of thought, which fellowships enable in the classroom. “You arrive at better solutions when you have people from different backgrounds. It's the way business should work.”... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- News
Alumni in Mexico City Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Mexico City on February 8, 2016 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A Vision for the 21st Century” as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The Mexico City Hyatt Regency Hotel was the setting for an evening... View Details
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his purchase of Beatrice Food Company, he netted the largest offshore... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
simply not a good way to counter information that creates false beliefs,” says Scott Duke Kominers, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the new analysis. “But it is a very powerful tool for addressing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
2019) “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care, leading to an enhanced patient experience.” —DOHA TANTAWY (MBA 2019) Wilhelm Röntgen’s discovery of the X-ray in 1895 enabled... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie