community service - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

peers. Qualitative data offer insights into the social identification processes underlying demographic similarity effects on turnover and promotion in professional service organizations. Working PapersLearning from My Success and from... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2024
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The Making of a Streaming Sensation

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Ticked Off

The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

April 2016 Harvard Business Review Can You Cut 'Turn Times' Without Adding Staff? By: Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—The president of RSA Ground, the subsidiary of Rising Sun Airlines responsible for servicing its planes at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

foreign investment, and community stability,” explains Raji, who was born in Nigeria. “My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort.... View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

"pretty limp," quality can only improve thanks to dramatic interest within the medical community in what the Internet can do. Panelist John D. Halamka, MD, of CareGroup Healthcare System, quipped that health care and the Internet are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

17 Aug 2021
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New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

startups around climate. There are huge business opportunities that are currently unmet in terms of products and services that can help mitigate the effects of climate change and promote sustainability. That can look a number of different... View Details

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

effort. "To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added products and services to be the engine of its economy," says HBS professor emeritus Kent Bowen, organizer of the colloquium. "One... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

August 2022 (Revised March 2023)
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Boston Impact Initiative: Investing in Local Change

By: Emily R. McComb, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin

In fall 2021, Aliana Piñeiro, impact director at Boston Impact Initiative (BII) discovered that an entrepreneur the organization was considering for an investment had failed to disclose pre-existing debt with another lender. Although the business scored highly on BII’s... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Wealth; Poverty; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston

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01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

500 free online courses in basic education and workplace skills—essentially a community college curriculum—that can lead to global training certificates and diplomas for its 2 million students around the world. (For example, ALISON offers... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)

operating style. Effective communications also means knowing how to listen. My family means a lot to me. Since I married U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, Kentucky has become my home state. We are in Kentucky pretty much every weekend. My... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

close the digital divide that exists in low-income communities where many families don't have a computer at home. "It's such a compelling idea," says Edward Olebe (MBA '99), who has coordinated the project for the HBSAAA in New York. "Not... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Personal Services; Personal Services

01 Sep 2013
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A Focus on You

alumni—some well-known and others not so familiar—who are doing important work in, say, education, or health care, or entrepreneurial ventures. With this edition, we've given the "focus" concept a spin: We're looking at the alumni View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

Clinic had been consistently ranked No. 1 by US News & World Report for heart surgery survival rates, her father opted to go to the No. 2 ranked Mayo Clinic. The reason for his choice: doctors at the Cleveland Clinic had a reputation for View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

you knew it, new factories were built close by to supply the first plant. Out of what was one plant, often in the middle of nowhere, seven or eight years later you’d see thriving communities. These plants produced products and services... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Services (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton Abstract Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

assume that all the smart people in the world are born within a 20-mile radius of their headquarters." This last factor—of being able to develop and diffuse innovation rapidly around the world—has emerged to become much more important as companies constantly renew... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of the Electronic Mail Game... View Details