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14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path balancing business growth with... View Details

Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

some precision to the discussion of culture in organizational change. She'll use the concept of relational contracts to help readers see the "fuzzy" side of management with clarity. Rebecca: My work on change is unusual in two respects.... View Details

16 Dec 2021
News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

all over India, as well as other hard-hit countries in Asia. —Anuj Maheswari (MBA 2006), managing director of Investment, Temasek. Maheswari and a group of volunteers leveraged the company’s networks to secure and deploy thousands of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

The Harvard Business School Campaign has played a critical role in advancing the School’s mission through the “Five I” strategic priorities. Selected highlights of new activities made possible by generous support from alumni and friends... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

identifying value stocks.” Wang teamed up with Ki-Soon Choi and Eric C. So from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management to author the new research, entitled Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

BATNA?” reflect misconceptions. Although savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. This article offers robust correctives to these misimpressions and relates these to three... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that influences future View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

worth it?” Velasquez wondered. “It’s a question a lot of low-income students grapple with,” he says. It was the generous financial aid he would receive from HBS that ultimately convinced him it would be possible to pursue an MBA alongside... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

United States, and as an alternative representative to the United Nations General Assembly. During that time, Franklin also started a management consulting firm and began serving as a director of... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

efficiently, accelerating the business model, and building the leadership team.” Howard started at the mobile brokerage company Robinhood in 2019. Tapped to help it scale and manage its operations teams, she is responsible for everything... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance incentives, worker education, unions, antitrust laws) As we enter... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of artists, animators, computer... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

has really become a part of the modern business canon. And he has a new book coming out next month, Competing Against Luck, which argues that understanding customers' motivations, what quote unquote, "role" consumers are buying a product to fill, can help View Details

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

dissemination of ideas," says Richard G. Hamermesh., MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and a faculty steering committee member of the Forum, which is a joint collaboration between HBS and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

developing countries. After receiving generous amounts of aid in the early years of its development, the country weaned itself off these external flows as quickly as possible. They now maintain a comfortable cushion of foreign reserves to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS after Military Service

generally join at a young age, go through a common indoctrination and then mature within that organization. At HBS, on the other hand, a section of 94 individuals with a vast diversity of experiences, each indoctrinated in a unique... View Details

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -... View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

And—oh, yes—Rovell was just a kid in his teens. Nevertheless, he launched a business-of-sports talk show on Northwestern University's student radio station, WNUR. His "producer" (actually, a roommate) aggressively pursued big-name players, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

in general apparel, but we may be able to identify a couple of categories—high-quality jewelry and high-end kids' apparel—that we can lock up," says Anthony W. Deering, chairman of the board and CEO of The Rouse Company, of Columbia,... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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