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- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
near 20 percent online market share. Apparel, greeting cards, party supplies, and office products have reached double-digit penetration as well while sporting goods and cosmetics will likely reach double-digit share in 2011. Pet products and View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Biobot Analytics
In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...
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City;
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Personal Development and Career;
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United States;
Kuwait;
Korean Peninsula
Kluender, Raymond, Joshua Krieger, and Mitchell Weiss. "Biobot Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 821-045, January 2021. (Revised June 2023.)
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
of local leadership: An individual manager can be an authentic communicator even if their organization is not. Jennifer Petriglieri’s colleague and husband, Gianpiero Petriglieri, recommends that leaders “tell your people what will happen to their salaries, View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
capitalists like Warren Buffett, a hero to many of us, support the Democratic Party. (Warren did two fundraisers for Hillary, two for Barack, one for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and, I am ever so pleased to say, one for the DNC.) How are your...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
challenge. For example, LVHM, a French multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, announced it will cease the production of perfumes in some of its factories in order to make hand sanitizer, and Nike stated it will start producing personal...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
housing in the next few years, and Dlodlo is currently looking to assume control of a large portfolio of vacant properties presented to her by community leaders, in which she intends to house frontline health care workers. The program...
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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
craze of the 1980s that gave way to the low-carb era. Will NA go the way of the passing health fad? “It’s hard to say, but these younger generations seem to care about a healthy lifestyle with an urgency that’s very different from...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
presented their research on occupational safety to managers at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, “both they and we learned a lot.” And let’s not forget small companies; some 90 percent of businesses in the United States...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
School became the first school to reintegrate students and I personally was the first student on the ground, working in a relief COVID-hospital. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve my community and challenge the status quo to improve View Details
- May 2022
- Article
Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software
By: Frank Nagle
While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there
is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the
discussion around digital infrastructure has...
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Nagle, Frank. "Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software." Brookings Series: Reimagining Modern-day Markets and Regulations (May 2022).
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
CEO Dan Vasella made counterintuitive moves by expanding Novartis's generic drug, vaccines, and consumer health businesses in spending heavily on acquisitions to offer alternatives to patented drugs. Meanwhile, he focused Novartis's...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2014
- HBS Seminar
Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
others’ views and insights. Superficial recognition that doesn’t allow women to fully contribute won’t placate employees who feel their voices are unheard. Indeed, lip service can be all the more frustrating, as expressed by one woman working in the View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that grants a Ph.D. in business...
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- 31 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences
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by Eric D. Werker
- 20 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940
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by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora