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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Mel Tukman Faculty Fellow Richard Hame rmesh , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Felda Hard ymon , MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice Gordon Jones , Director, Harvard Innovation Lab William Kerr ,... View Details

Levels of Meaning

project inventory needs over the course of the year. My business history courses posed questions like, How did an entrepreneur build his or her business over time? What choices did they make that were fundamental in making the business a success? What trade-offs did... View Details

02 Dec 2017
News

Helping HBS Make Big Bets

Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with nonprofit and public-sector organizations to... View Details

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Science Complex—four multistory buildings, due for completion in 2011—the centerpiece of the initial phase of Harvard's 300-acre development on the Boston side of the Charles River. New Management Skills Needed Both in the scale and scope... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

and a global business unit head, and has recently returned to a straight-ahead global business unit reporting structure. "There are never-ending tradeoffs between creating global efficiencies through a more centralized structure and establishing a local environment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Industrial Production & Materials Refrigerant gases, cement, and plastic are materials ripe for innovation Industrial activity that produces many of the materials used in commerce, as well as consumer products... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Five Bright Ideas

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Print View - Course Catalog

Ecosystem Strategy, Marketing Ramon Casadesus-Masanell January 2025 J 3.0 IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Strategy Tarun Khanna January 2025 J 3.0 IFC: Silicon Valley; Disrupting Silicon Valley with AI Entrepreneurial Management Mark Roberge January 2025 J... View Details

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

contributing to this effort by facilitating multi-million-dollar transactions that brings new energy technologies to Shell. During my internship, I have had the opportunity to work on three M&A deals in the new energy space. These companies have developed View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

climate risk as an asset owner, measuring climate risk and using metrics in portfolio construction, incorporating physical climate risk into portfolio analysis. The last day turned to financing innovation with a focus on early stage... View Details

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

leverage two opportunities during my final semester. One was an Independent Project (IP), and the other was the final project for the Scaling Technology Ventures course. Career Exploration Using Alternative Methods In the fall... View Details

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them rather than anything... View Details

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” he said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused versus racially focused.” With an... View Details

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transferring rents to multinational corporate patent holders headquartered in the world's most advanced countries, especially the United States. IPR advocates countered that improved IPR would spur innovation, and that even if this View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political leadership in creating... View Details

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