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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was...
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April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
to that '60s idealism. If coaxed, Wiley, whose children Pratt and B.J. are now 21 and 19, will admit she has become a role model for many of the young women she meets in her work, who look to her for guidance not only in making a mark in...
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Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
high-end, traditional model toilets it introduced to the U.S. market in 1989, the Washlet, as the bidet-toilet is known, has been a much tougher sell. In “TOTO: The Bottom Line,” HBS associate professor Mary Tripsas considers barriers to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
has developed a "three-dimensional" model that, in addition to utilizing two familiar and traditional aspects of negotiation, offers a third, multifaceted approach that has enormous potential to increase effective negotiation. According...
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Anita M. Harris
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
nongeographic, interest-based associations, clubs have an opportunity to develop similar models within their own structures, thereby tailoring programs to specific groups. Accordingly, it recommended that the School take a proactive...
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- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Executive Education courses. The Charlotte program is similarly motivated, offering the course as a benefit to local companies and using proceeds to support nonprofits in the community. “We basically took the Buffalo program and used it as a View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities
especially when coupled with a culture of active communication and connection with employees who work remotely. Companies who choose an in-person or hybrid model still should also be considering how their facilities meet employee needs....
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
this. Our service model at Kimpton was not service per se, it was care. What does the guest on the other side of the desk need right now? How can we properly care for them? If people are traveling right now, what they’ll need more than...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
for anything, so you have to navigate a more ambiguous path—one with fewer role models and fewer people to help you. The problem builds on itself: underrepresentation in the fast-track, post-college jobs that feed into the B-schools...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)
By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented...
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Digital Platforms;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
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Globalization;
Competition;
Expansion;
Logistics;
Profit;
Resource Allocation;
Diversification;
Corporate Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Health Pandemics;
Strategic Planning;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Turkey
Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-062, October 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
- January–February 2013
- Article
Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities
By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations...
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Business and Community Relations;
Civil Society or Community;
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For-Profit Firms;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Profit;
Local Range;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Business Processes;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Trends;
Management Practices and Processes;
United States
Marquis, Christopher, Gerald F. Davis, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities." Organization Science 24, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 39–57. (Read a summary of the article in Stanford Social Innovation Review.)
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 Demand Estimation in View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
capacity for innovation, can and often should be structured as artists structure their work. Managers should look to collaborative artists rather than to more traditional management models if they want to create economic value in this new...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
invest in the original company could decide whether or not to stick with it. “Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels of uncertainty and the longer time frames that it requires.”...
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- Portrait Project
Nathalie duPreez
otherwise. I am fortunate that I have had the encouragement and opportunities to live by his advice. Yet, just five miles away from where I grew up, children do not have fathers to make them "wings," nor role models to inspire...
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- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
realized she could do more to disrupt the traditional investment model from the outside. At the time, Aditya was already working with Republic, an online investing platform. The company, which launched in 2016, offers investment...
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- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
impact and on using hybrid business models to generate social and environmental value. Work Experience: Social Impact Consulting & Coaching - Principal; City Year (youth development) -Director of International Operations; The Nature...
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