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- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
20,000 people to 150,000 people and it's a beautiful area, and I see this kind of old school development happening, you know and these big box stores and people coming and buying huge city blocks and making these really kind of boring... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
business opportunities. "The basic idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks," says Iyer. "If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
terms of time and convenience, than a close-in building just a block from the station. Suddenly the outlying land is as valuable as the close-in land, and the developer can afford to pay for PRT with private... View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
which the leading experts work. Always, the technological enablers of disruption are successfully deployed against the industry's simplest problems first. They then build commercial and technological momentum upon that foothold and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
classrooms, and help establish a comprehensive model of education for the country. “The nuns in Rwanda have an astounding capacity to make the most of any resources they can get their hands on,” he says. “We’d build a View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
relevant connections. How is the organization in which you’re involved pursuing social change? WAVE is currently building a movement of employers committed to hiring for competencies (over credentials) and educators committed to... View Details
- Web
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
biographies to understand the choices that these high-impact individuals faced and the paths they chose. In the first part of the course, you will discover the recipe for making a substantial difference in the world: the personality traits that must be acquired, the... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot's days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
who cared deeply about serving their customers. The notion of caring, with a proactive bias toward action, became the building block of Phanstiel's efforts to motivate people to embrace new growth... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
approach of education, social-service, and community-building programs targeting 100 square blocks in New York City. Ninety percent of high school students who attend HCZ’s after-school programs go on to college; 100 percent of its third... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
assured that they can defend their achievements—that they will be listened to if they feel aggrieved or abused. Jobs that reasonably fulfill all 4 drives are the building blocks of healthy organizations. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
e-mail interview, HBS Working Knowledge talked with team member Raj De Datta to hear more about the plan and next steps for Gyaana.Tishler: What inspired you to develop Gyaana? De Datta: The genesis of Gyaana came from two observations: the critical importance of... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
in recall, in turn, stems not from loss of memory, per se. Instead, it has to do with conflicts with other similar memories that wind up blocking efforts to recall the specific piece of information or story, the study finds. Stories have... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Rather than stifling investment, the proposed change will hopefully trigger increased focus on equity-type investments, on entrepreneurial activities that actually produce products and services to attract investors, and it will shine a positive light on an emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Retrofitting buildings in inner cities is just one element of BlocPower’s groundbreaking sustainability strategy. In this episode of Climate Stories, BlocPower’s General Manager Keith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
together before the season," O'Reilly says. Guided by its extensive customer research, fan polling, and tracking of fan-engagement data across all its platforms, the NFL "gets smarter every day in terms of what our different fan segments want." To View Details
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Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management - Course Catalog
time and attention, library and computer access); advice from your peers in a structured environment; and devoted blocks of time during your EC year to move your business forward while your team is all in one location. The course employs... View Details
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Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
teach about the psychology of conversation, especially the fundamental building blocks of communication that transcend context—skills and insights that apply across people, purposes, languages, cultures, and... View Details