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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
including travel, banking, telecommunications, and credit card services. Not satisfied with dominating Japan’s e-commerce landscape, Mikitani believes the company’s future lies in taking its online expertise global. Since 2008, Rakuten... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
from their purchases. Revenue models anchored on the ownership of products, they argue, are patently inferior. Bertini and Koenigsberg explain that advances in technology have made it possible for firms to collect “impact data” that tells... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
bear a huge responsibility for seeing that creativity is sparked constantly and flows unimpeded, she writes. According to Hill, these leaders actually have three mandates: Clearly state why the collective exists Determine who should be part of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
investment firm, Novus Energy Partners, and for close to two decades now, I’ve been investing in companies that deliver both financial and environmental returns. What was your plan coming into HBS? I had done quite a lot of strategy... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
of America’s democratic systems was incubated among a group of HBS alumni; many more serve on its steering and advisory groups; and of the 140 members—executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and academic experts, people of all political... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
getting the help they need.” To that end, Simons created a free online job design optimization tool. Try it out to see if your job is offering a healthy mix of responsibility and support. If the answer is no, then talk to your supervisor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
spent nearly a decade with the Chicago Public Schools system, building strategy and leadership projects for schools and their principals, and began to wonder what she might be able to accomplish if she branched out of the traditional... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
For women executives, having both career and family can mean making hard choices. When it comes to caring for family, more women typically choose to take on this responsibility than men, and, in doing so, accept that View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds Authors:John Y. Campbell, Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved considerably over time. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the security of member nations. Through his connections, Reilly... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
portrayed in the interviews, such as bank runs, political coups, and currency crises. Furthermore, the interviews elucidate how strategy formulation and execution unfolds across time, and provides a unique window into the actual cognition... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
company, and location into a database and shared it with all the women. It was a valuable resource, but a database alone wouldn’t be enough, Hagemann reasoned. “If we launched a formal network,” she told... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
been diligent in filing lawsuits—they’re filing plenty of lawsuits. But Uber is fighting back. Often the company’s strategy has been to delay regulators’ every complaint, trying to get their service that much more entrenched so View Details