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  • April 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

City Year: The Journey

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
Throughout its first two decades, City Year, a non-profit organization, was dedicated to recruiting young adults to give a year of public service. It had passed through several growth phases but by 2010 a new challenge, and opportunity, had arisen when City Year and... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation
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Faculty & Research - Health Care

Research Professor Raffaella Sadun on Improving Care in Hospitals Professor John Beshears on how the nudge movement can improve healthy behavior John Beshears Research 3,851 Faculty publications on health care 20 % Faculty conducting... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

incoming MBA Class of 2004 to restore confidence in America’s free enterprise system after public trust in business had been shaken by the Enron and WorldCom scandals. And in the wake of the global financial crisis, former Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

of critical services to faculty, staff, and students including research and course support, information and data management services, and information products. They also manage contemporary and historical collections, the HBS Art... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

  Working PapersRacial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives? Authors:Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas Abstract Diversity continues to be a key focus for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

1995. During its history, FreeMarkets first created the market for internet deployed supply management software and services and then went public in 1999 in a record setting IPO. Later, the company expanded... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

demonstrate their capabilities before an audience. But this can be dangerous: Feldberg found that when women put off private office tasks such as strategic planning or data analysis, their departments’ profits and customer service ratings... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

become something more." What every entrepreneur knows: "A great idea is not enough." Business leader worth emulating: Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM. "He transformed a giant corporation, but beyond that, he is leading a pathbreaking contribution by his company to reinvent... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services View Details
  • September 2013
  • Article

Do Short Sellers Front-Run Insider Sales?

By: Mozaffar N. Khan and Hai Lu
We study the behavior of short sellers as informed market participants and examine potential sources of their information. Using a newly available dataset with high-frequency short sales data, we find evidence of significant increases in short sales immediately prior... View Details
Keywords: Information; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Financial Services Industry
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  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

Obama-to move government data to the Web-lead to public benefits much faster? Data.gov, the subject of a new HBS case study, taught for the first time this summer, highlights the potential of raw data to spur citizen creativity and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Benefits | Predoctoral Researchers

a variety of discounts and perks, including subsidized public transit. Research Staff Services Office We are here to support you throughout the duration of the program, answering programmatic questions and... View Details
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Angella (MBA 2001) discuss the fundamentals of nonprofit board service and answer questions from attendees. Harnessing Entrepreneurship to Revamp Democracy Featuring Professor Mitch Weiss with Yordanos Eyoel of the New Profit Civic Lab... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Explicating Lean Principles by Examining Indian Software Services Authors:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2016
  • Chapter

Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Television Entertainment; Public Opinion; Geographic Scope; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Programs Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute JUL 8-12, 2024 | HBS Campus Intended for teams of eight participants, including district office personnel, school principals, and regional supervisors who are... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne