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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Using an online platform to reinvent education
site. “Our annual budget is equivalent to a medium-sized high school. We’re reaching 10 million students a month today and hope to reach hundreds of millions in the not too far off future,” says Khan. “The...
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- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
strongly linked to the gender of the person they are competing against. “Women are competitive, but not in particular work environments or groups” "Women are competitive, but not in particular View Details
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by Kim Girard
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
institution in Ontario about two years ago; they said he could not live with other roommates. He was aggressive, he was violent. Within three months, he was off all the meds that he was on; he has a job working in the community; he has...
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- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
I knew that in order to get something, I had to give up something else.” Her mother worked at a restaurant to support them, and Ash would call...
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by Avery Forman
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
After cofounding a nonprofit to establish academy schools for low-income children in London, England, Jennifer Moses (MBA 1989) is working to provide quality education for...
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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
energy, and also community involvement. And as a deputy majority whip, you have the opportunity to take a leadership role and actually work with all of your colleagues to make...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Things Everyone Should Know How to Do
Management, is now at work on a guide to life at home. She invites HBS advice givers or seekers to visit her Web site at www.theexpertsguideto.com. Is there less...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda
By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin
How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high...
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Export Diversification;
Industrialization;
Economic Complexity;
International Trade;
Rwanda;
Diversification;
Trade;
Transportation;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Rwanda
Hausmann, Ricardo, and Jasmina Chauvin. "Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda." Center for International Development at Harvard University Working Paper, No. 24, April 2015.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
In their HBS working paper "Overcoming the 'Silent Killers' to Strategy Implementation and Organizational Learning," HBS professor Michael Beer and Russell A. Eisenstat, president of the Center for...
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Judith A. Ross
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 02 May 2022
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
Company Conversations this year. Implement these best practices, and you may find you never want to go back to presentation-style recruiting. 1. Post Materials in Advance...
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- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 15 Aug 2016
- News
Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Environmental Justice (EJ): working to combat climate change and promote climate resilience and investing in the green economy in a way that creates good, well-paying jobs, with a focus on combatting...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
transition. When journaling the above, I encourage writing full sentences and fully expressing your thoughts around each. Don’t worry about being legible—you may never go back to read them—it is the act of...
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by Julia Austin
- 2009
- Working Paper
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web
By: Marco Iansiti
Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Partners and Partnerships;
Competition;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web
Iansiti, Marco. "Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-142, June 2009.