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McCollum Center | About

renamed Conoco, was a multinational energy conglomerate with assets of $2.3 billion. Conoco’s growth stemmed largely from McCollum’s innovative and expansive business strategy, which led to exploration View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

innovative ideas and excellent instincts has demonstrated a knack for revitalizing the old and cultivating the new. Assuming leadership of Seagram-owned Tropicana in 1993, Marram presided over an... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Working to Learn: Despite a growing set of innovators, America struggles to connect education and career explores several important trends from our analysis: Few programs strive for college and employment. Though organizations in the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

would return to consulting afterward. But Izquierdo, who spent six months at an Italian culinary institute after high school, had long wanted to open her own eatery as a side venture. In the meantime, Azuero had been mulling entrepreneurial projects View Details

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who... View Details

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correctly. Topics of Interest Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society I am interested in the for-credit version View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

deficiencies—for example, that they lacked skills or were objects of charity, and also that they were not to be taken seriously as tech innovators. After establishing Code Fever’s Urban Innovation Lab in... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

Above: At Zubale, Monroy (left) and Campbell connect independent contractors with merchandising tasks. (photo by Rodrigo Ceballos) Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy (both MBA 2018) met on their first day of classes at HBS. Members... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

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Blog - Creating Emerging Markets

Future of Green Building Lynn Schenk and Maxim Pike Harrell 17 Nov 2022 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale Maxim Pike Harrell 14 Dec 2022 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start somewhere. And in those first... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Frequently Asked Questions Do you offer services for students as well as faculty?The Christensen Center is primarily for faculty teaching development. However, we understand the critical role played by students in the case method. We take part in the training View Details

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

tackle the largest sources of drudgery and inconvenience in everyday life as well as energy instability which is common in rural areas. SELCO’s codified approach of first View Details

03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

Interest Group (SIGs), and Liaisons on the same day around the world. All HBS alumni are invited to this evening of informal networking and engagement. One participating club, the HBS Club of Washington DC,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other... View Details

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Kiran Gandhi

Ideo, a leading innovation and design firm that I had never heard of before, and I was so inspired by design thinking methodology. So this summer, I’ll be one of sixteen HBS... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

“Some companies have reacted [to the spread of coronavirus] by laying off staff and closing their doors, hunkering down and waiting for the storm to pass. Others have decided to pivot. They've come up with View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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HBS - The year in Review

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive The Year in Review The 2020–21 fiscal year was one of innovation and adaptation. While the pandemic disrupted lives and activities around the... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

may want to become extreme innovators inside government at some point themselves. The cases feature a broad range of contemporary technology applications, and the course may be View Details

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

of perspectives that can lead to truly innovative approaches to accomplishing a task. Even groups composed not of similar souls but merely of... View Details

Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo

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