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  • April 1992 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Grappling with Garbage: The Bandung Municipal Cleansing Enterprise, P.D. Kerbersihan

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Environmental Sustainability; Indonesia
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  • 07 Jun 2018
  • News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

notes Condo, who led the renowned Latin American business school INCAE from 2007 to 2015. “That’s what got me completely hooked.” EARTH University draws outstanding students from 48 countries across Latin America and Africa. Most are... View Details
  • Web

5 Facts About HBS Conferences - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand and operate in the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources

Kosuda and Harvard Law School student Patrick Ho in the Commercializing Science course at HBS. The course brings together graduate students from across Harvard University to build viable business ventures. ... View Details
  • April 2003
  • Background Note

Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (E)

This case summarizes the technical evaluation methodology Shell employed to evaluate the alternative proposals submitted to its engineering competition for disposing of the Brent Spar. It also details the results of the evaluation process. View Details
Keywords: Natural Environment; Business and Community Relations; Projects; Energy Sources; Energy Industry
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Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology
  • September 2007 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Gokhan Hotamisligil is a star researcher at Harvard School of Public Health who has made groundbreaking discoveries linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Health Industry
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  • 19 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The Road to Impact

opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Originally, Offensend thought he’d propel himself into that nonprofit career through law school. But then, he jokes, he realized what lawyers actually do on a day-to-day basis, and so instead went to View Details
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

levels. Collectively, Rachel and Wallerstofer saw an opportunity to build a precision nutrition brand that was more data driven, science backed, and truly personalized. “We came together on this mission to empower individuals to leverage... View Details
  • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Bairong and the Promise of Big Data

By: Lauren Cohen, Xiaoyan Zhang and Spencer C.N. Hagist
Bairong CEO Felix Zhang, in launching his credit scoring start-up that incorporates 74,000 variables per individual, found strong initial success. However, the shifting regulatory environment, growing breadth of competitors, difficulties in retaining top talent, and... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Big Data; Artificial Intelligence; Credit Scoring; Finance; Credit; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; China
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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Calera Corporation

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley
Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of Ecotourism in Costa Rica

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora; Tourism
  • 04 May 2016
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

dodgy name is not always a major impediment to success.” Gretchen Kennedy commented, “Boaty McBoatface is the PERFECT name for bringing a little humor to a world that takes itself way too seriously.” Science Advocate added, “You can’t buy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Big Data for Social Good from Harvard Online Business Analytics Data Privacy and Technology from Harvard Online Data Science for Business from Harvard Online Data View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books Value-Based Health Care Delivery – Measuring and Managing Costs The Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) initiative, led by Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-055.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

with living things or organic compounds will have a common language and, in turn, a common business," he asserts in "Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution," a McKinsey Award-winning article he coauthored in the March-April 2000 issue of... View Details
Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services