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By: Nancy F. Koehn
My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is...
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- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many...
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- 2011
- Book
I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze
By: Deepak Malhotra
Now a Wall Street Journal Best-seller! If you were a mouse trapped in a maze and someone kept moving the cheese, what would you do? Over a decade ago, the best-selling business fable Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Success;
Personal Development and Career;
Problems and Challenges;
Opportunities;
Creativity
Malhotra, Deepak. I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011. (Wall Street Journal Best-Seller; Translated in ~20 languages.)
- June 2012
- Response
Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity
By: Ran I. Shorrer
This is a solution to the editor's puzzle from issue 10.2 of SIGecom Exchanges [Reeves 2011]. The puzzle asks to determine a point in time such that a lump sum payment of $S will be equivalent to a continuous stream of infinitesimal payments totaling $S, spread evenly...
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Shorrer, Ran I. "Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity." ACM SIGecom Exchanges 11, no. 1 (June 2012): 39–41.
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Family Office;
Development;
International Development;
International Development Investing;
Development Fund;
Sustainability;
Solar Energy;
Solar;
Pay As You Go;
PAYG;
MFI;
Social Venture;
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Economics;
Development Economics;
Energy;
Energy Conservation;
Energy Sources;
Renewable Energy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Assets;
Asset Pricing;
Capital;
Capital Budgeting;
Capital Structure;
Venture Capital;
Cash;
Cash Flow;
Currency;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Equity;
Private Equity;
Financial Instruments;
Debt Securities;
Stock Shares;
Financing and Loans;
Microfinance;
International Finance;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Price;
Geography;
Geographic Location;
Emerging Markets;
Ownership;
Ownership Stake;
Private Ownership;
Social Enterprise;
Value;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Energy Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Africa;
United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 2011
- Teaching Note
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes: Transforming the Management Control System in Time of Crisis (TN)
By: Ning Jia, F. Warren McFarlan and Xiaohui Li
Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co. is a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) that manufactures cast pipe products and steel products. The company had grown to become a dominant player in the ductile iron pipe industry, holding more than 40% domestic market share and nearly...
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Jia, Ning, F. Warren McFarlan, and Xiaohui Li. "Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes: Transforming the Management Control System in Time of Crisis (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
- 2020
- Book
Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time
Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies...
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Keywords:
Leaders;
Advanced Leadership;
Advanced Leadership Initiative;
Community;
Change Leadership;
Innovation;
Problem Solving;
Cross-sector Collaboration;
Institutional Change;
Leadership;
Change;
Leading Change;
Communication;
Innovation Leadership;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business and Community Relations;
Civil Society or Community
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time. New York: PublicAffairs, 2020.
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
After nearly two decades in senior marketing and new venture positions, Ajay Mookerjee (DBA ’88) has returned to HBS as executive director of the new India Research Center. “I’ve had a pent-up desire to get involved in academic work, and...
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Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the Work of Agencies
Speaker's Box, Journal of Advertising Research
“Speaker’s Box” invites academics and practitioners to identify potential areas of research affecting marketing and advertising. Its intention is to bridge the gap between the length...
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- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
appeared at the top of their bills, as well as the smaller and older expenses. More work, less spending Repayment-by-purchase requires more work from consumers, who must spend View Details
- June 2016
- Article
Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is...
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Keywords:
Inequality;
Work;
Mechanisms And Processes;
Stratification;
Labor Process;
Qualitative Methods (General);
Case Method;
Field Research;
Equality and Inequality;
Working Conditions;
Gender;
Labor;
Labor and Management Relations;
Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
senior officials, including the Nigerian President, over the course of two years. From there, she joined the World Bank as part of the Young Professionals Program and traveled the world, fully embracing the opportunity to continue...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
senior officials, including the Nigerian President, over the course of two years. From there, she joined the World Bank as part of the Young Professionals Program and traveled the world, fully embracing the opportunity to continue...
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- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
senior officials, including the Nigerian President, over the course of two years. From there, she joined the World Bank as part of the Young Professionals Program and traveled the world, fully embracing the opportunity to continue...
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- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
in the military are primed to be the example for leadership on day one. And Harvard Business School very much has the section experience. So you're with 94 individuals every single day, I count them as my second family up in Cambridge....
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