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- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
problem facing most Chicago restaurants—not having enough well-trained employees in their kitchens. Finally, The Hatchery will also improve access to affordable, fresh food in the neighborhood. For several years, the Garfield Park... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
Quartner started her career in banking at Credit Suisse and Nina Mullen started her career in consulting at Bain) ended up starting a natural remedies brand, Hilma. Our process before taking the entrepreneurial leap: 1. Have an idea... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
what should the State be doing. What's should the State agencies be doing, what should the Georgia legislature be doing, both budget wise and legislatively. And we were very happy that when the first few months of releasing that white... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Allen’s closing remarks at the end of the course emphasized adaptation as a multi-stakeholder problem that requires a systems thinking approach: “What if my house survives because I raised it, but neighbors... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. Decisions that seem... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
the last minute to the Friday morning schedule of HBS fall reunion participants, who nearly overflowed Burden. While the panelists at all three sessions brought different perspectives to the crisis, a consensus emerged that lax regulatory oversight had contributed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
“are much more frequent than we expect them to be.” Over the past 100 years, the S&P 500 has ended the year down 20 points or more on seven occasions, including this year. While it’s human nature to believe that the unthinkable, such as a... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
the company's bottom line, while also protecting or enhancing the company's reputation. "The CSO is really driving the execution of the sustainability strategy," Serafeim says. Many companies end up hovering in this phase... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
to recruit Black students as “painfully insufficient.” He also cited the same inadequate results for recruiting Black faculty and staff. He might as well have been talking about most major business schools; the problem is not unique to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
finally liquidated at the end of 2013, it employed a few dozen people. Now some of those workers, mostly women in their 50s, were occupying the factory around the clock in eight-hour shifts to prevent the sale of the equipment and to... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out of my control. So it's how do you set a vision? How do you hire the right team and empower them?... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What Can We Learn from Google? Review and Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
anticipates that people who bought tennis rackets might also want some tennis balls, the City might anticipate that people applying for a moving permit might also need to figure out their trash pick-up, parking passes, and voter registration. Just like Lyft solves a... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
precious three months of my life, not what others might think that I should do,” Takatsuka shared. “I ended up pursuing two internships in developing countries in the middle of COVID-19 – no one recommended that I do that! But for me, I... View Details
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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
of the program. Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts served as the associate director. Students studied under the case method system, in which they solved problems identified in hundreds of real business situations. One of the core courses of the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
the birth and midlife phases of business products and ideas," Raman observes. "We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses. What drew us to this problem is that death, or the process of... View Details