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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
high-growth companies, those with the greatest potential to create jobs. One challenge: geographic gaps across the United States. "Despite the fact that America has a very robust market for risk capital, about 70 percent of the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
rulings were treated with a great deal of respect by national governments. In the past several years, however, we have seen a number of high-profile cases in which rulings have been essentially ignored, despite retaliatory sanctions. As a result, there is mounting... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
turn away LGBTQ customers and potential hires in 2015. This development was met with an immediate loss of 12 business conventions worth $60 million and the launch of the Indiana Competes business coalition advocating for LGBTQ... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
students who might potentially become future managers at the corporation. J. Carlisle MacDonald, the head of U.S. Steel public relations, wrote, “It is, of course, desirable to use every possible medium to tell our story to the public.”... View Details
- Web
Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
foresee an expansive array of off-planet activities—such as research and development (R&D), manufacturing, tourism, mining, and energy production—that go beyond data in their use of the unique environment. These applications tend to be more speculative but, if they can... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
ask the panel all of their questions.” The presentation then focused on how to build a board resume and establish a network of mentors in the desired industry. Hart says the webinars were a chance to educate potential future board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
insufficient. Fulfillment of community needs such as clean air and human rights is every bit as important. This concept offers multinationals a mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. It also provides them with a means to improve political... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
percent of the country’s GDP but most private equity funds invest in its private sector. I think it is worth watching those firms that invest in the public sector as this is where new growth potential exists. Hong Kong There are fewer... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
unappealing picture, but it didn’t add up. My teacher, Ms. Gbayisomore, helped me learn new things I didn’t even know existed and saw the potential in every one of us in class to learn more and become more. I didn’t see why this should be... View Details
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
enterprise software and branded consumer companies. Beyond my role there, I founded, grew, and successfully exited an online marketplace designed to unlock educational and professional opportunities for underrepresented minority groups. Inspired by the impact, the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear
wanted to create going into Bootcamp. Our advisors, however, really pushed us to dive deep into customer discovery, surveys and experiments to truly understand the problem we were trying to solve. In talking with potential customers and... View Details
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IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI - Course Catalog
will be in the B2B segment (product development, hiring/recruiting, go-to-market) and three in the B2C sector (social media, search, transportation). Students will meet regularly throughout the fall with Professor Roberge to discuss research findings and brainstorm... View Details
- Web
Social Media - Alumni
consider your goals and the interests of potential members. Browse HBS network sites on Facebook and LinkedIn to make sure a similar group to yours doesn't already exist. When posting content, avoid login-protected information. Even in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
companies. You aren’t going to apply them to your core business that’s growing at 10 percent a year, but you could apply them to that area that is small but growing quickly with the potential to be the leader in a new market. It doesn’t... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
and build a Web page that describes the company to potential investors. Of these electives, the new interdisciplinary course Business and the Internet: Strategy, Law, and Policy is a joint offering of HBS, Harvard Law School, and the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
cared about how to make it happen," Wilcox says. "I adopted the dream and it became my dream too." Wilcox first saw Joe Jacobson and Jerry Rubin's electronic ink dream in 1997. He discovered the two MIT Media Lab professors through the HBS grapevine and recognized the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
in a thriving business when a job offer comes from a company you’ve always admired that’s on the brink of bankruptcy. The risks are tremendous but so are the potential rewards – to you and society. This situation brings to mind the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
since 1980, that company has become more diverse over time, potentially due to improved HR policies, changes in hiring practices, and other efforts to diversify the workforce,” Koning says. “But our economy is not only made up of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
registered users, almost a third of the country’s adults, within 18 months. Lesson 5: Earn consumer trust One critical component to the success of any mobile money venture is building consumer trust, a challenge tough to overcome in many developing countries where... View Details