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01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

through our computers and phones. Remote work has given top leaders incentives to use these communication technologies to not only communicate with every individual in the organization but even meet their pets and check out their living View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects - MBA

interests Working with a startup in the telemedicine space that was just getting started for my fall Term IP was great. I got to pitch some potential investors, allowing me to sit on the other side of the table from the VCs I knew well... View Details

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

organizations in India have adopted novel solutions to magnify their impact in the climate space and achieve climate sustainability goals. We are excited to go back over the coming years and watch the progression! Sources: Bezos earth... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and growth opportunities. The IRA is a great example of how policy... View Details

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Engagement - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

examples or experiences. Best Practices Tell students how long they have and what will be the signal to end Give students space to talk freely; don’t linger by any one group Consider allowing brief "report-outs" from one or more groups... View Details

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African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

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

to perform work they previously wouldn’t have been able to do (e.g., roti machine with space for a wheelchair). SELCO has also built partnerships with Indian banks and microfinance organizations to enable entrepreneurs and families to... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black neighborhood into a co-working View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

Unfortunately, "local" didn't seem to be any better a description of Coke's market space than "global." On March 7, 2002, the Asian Wall Street Journal announced: "After two years of lackluster sales the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

little things in my life and their lives over dinner. They always made me feel loved no matter what I felt and shared. That’s exactly what I want to do for my community. I want to use empathy to build deep connections and create space for... View Details

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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

Common and the adjacent Public Garden, the large public spaces in the center of Boston. You can also wander down the center of Commonwealth Avenue in Boston's Back Bay, a beautiful Victorian residential neighborhood marked by a canopy of... View Details

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On Campus Logistics - Recruiting

you may need to bring an Apple converter to utilize Apple products during your event. Conversations: Not all HBS conference rooms have audiovisual equipment. If you require A/V, contact our office . We will do our best to book you a room with A/V, but View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

Lusophone-Portuguese, and Arabic.” Different media companies specialize in each block, so there’s no single TV contract to sign. The free-to-air TV space is even more fragmented, with literally hundreds of broadcasters operating across... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

believed I was best positioned to drive innovations in business models and strategies, and bring new, world-changing technologies to market. I came to HBS to get exposure to people from different backgrounds and have time and space to... View Details

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

especially for smaller tenants. Co-working space is here to stay and this is largely attributable to Neumann. Can the company ultimately be profitable? Probably, as there are other companies engaged in similar models that do make money.... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

Research Summary

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By: Feng Zhu

Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

opinion from the instructor, the traditional response from the instructor is, “What do you think?” I’ve been asking it in this space for 22 years this month. "The case method requires that instructors often pass control of the learning... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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MBA Program - Alumni

highlighted in this video. Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path Professor Nien-hê Hsieh wrote and teaches a case that explores the “gray area” of leadership—that uncomfortable and common space where leaders face difficult trade-offs... View Details

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

benefits from the company's low prices. Wal-Mart operates 2-1/2 times as much selling space per inhabitant in the poorest one-third of states as in the richest one-third. And within these states, it focuses on poorer districts and... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

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Career Support - Business & Environment

to help them think about the environment and sustainability in terms of how they can help instead of hinder is not just an exciting space to be in, but also one that you can be proud of at the end of the day.” Drew Sloan (MBA/MPA 2010)... View Details

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