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16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

University, who has written extensively on issues facing new media. "If you don't allow yourself to be tracked and to be personalized, if you turn off the cookies on your machine, then you're not going to have shopping baskets that... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

01 Sep 2003
News

Mark Schwartz

leadership, Goldman Sachs Japan became the top-ranked practice in Asia and was involved in seven of the region’s eleven largest mergers. “It was an enormously challenging assignment,” admits Schwartz. “I got to turn around a business that... View Details

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

22 Dec 2020
Blog Post

The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS

Financial Aid office), I discovered different resources and opportunities that I could turn to in order to make this impossible dream a reality. The Forward Fellowship was designed for students like me with extenuating family... View Details

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

out there to all of the industry events sponsored by organizations like Greentown Labs and the New England Clean Energy Council. There’s no shortage of clean energy events in Boston where you can get out and meet people, which could ultimately View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This product made a difference. Had we not had this,... View Details

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

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

with ambitious net zero commitments. BCG's climate & sustainability team helps clients turn these pledges into action -helping them identify and harness climate innovation, embed sustainability at scale into their business, and... View Details

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

then to turn against him. "They had different interpretations of what loyalty meant—it caused a reflection on the part of students about what they owe a leader and what they are owed by the leader," says Rose. Hamilton's story... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

loved ones). Turn in the direction of the skid—and skill yourself up for it.” What did you like to do when you weren’t studying? “Definitely traveling! I had a great set of friends at HBS who shared the same passion for travel and we... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

of books and articles published about M&A, no one has ever tried to link strategic intent to the implications for integration that result.— HBS Professor Joseph Bower I will turn now to the problems that arise in different types of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

teams to spend some of their time brainstorming about how they can help make a difference to their communities, now and for times to come. This can unite and inspire people, and it might create good ideas for innovation when attention View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

Profile

Peter Gumulia

management is only one piece of the puzzle. I wanted to get closer to the decision making – which ultimately led me to business.” After college, Peter turned to management consulting with a two-year stint at Bain & Co in the US and... View Details

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

turned out that some players within the industry had been holding on to the old technology all along, too. Raffaelli recounts the story of Zenith, which, like many Swiss watch companies, decided to throw away all of its mechanical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

01 Oct 1997
News

Donald J. Chiofaro

future,' it's clear to me that's the way things will turn out." But Chiofaro's career path hasn't always seemed so certain. After graduating in 1968 from Harvard College (where, as a bone-crunching linebacker, he captained the football... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

computer in the place until we know what's happening. Can we turn off power to the entire company? I will now call Carl back and let him know that you and I have spoken." Barton was shaken. "Thanks, Graham," was all he... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

Any parent can tell you that a surefire way to turn joy into rage is to offer your child a big candy bar—and then turn around and offer an even bigger one to his sister. Suddenly, a special treat View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study... View Details