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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology
evolve Baker Library technology and processes to support its objective of being at the vanguard of academic library innovation, linked data experimentation, semantic data modeling, and digital product development. This initiative will... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
mill stores were merely a fad. Instead, he bet on supermarket-style stores, with self-service, offering clothing, toys, beauty supplies and housewares. That idea became the basis for the family’s chain of Zayre discount stores, introduced... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new abnormal, Deshpandé offers the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
serve as CFO for the Africa Healthcare Network in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Africa before attending HBS. Ike Kyei (MBA 2019) is a former business analyst at... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
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Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
about all that CEM has to offer in regards to sustainability and to showing the leading stance that emerging markets have taken on this pivotal issue. We invite you continue to follow our collaboration with the Business & Environment... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
the University of Pennsylvania’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative to test new ways to nudge members to exercise. Researchers found that while all of their interventions yielded an initial surge of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
Ph.D.'s from the Divinity School." During his term, Stern has worked to continue long-standing traditions and to initiate new ones. The Leadership Program, a top-notch executive course run by HBS professors, is now in its fifth year. This... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
DeLong: His new book offers practical advice on how to identify and surmount obstacles that hamper career growth. Related Links Watch DeLong discuss selecting the right people Congratulations to Yoni (MBA '11) and Newton (OPM 39), who won... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
they approached was already trying a kinder-and-gentler tactic by waiving the fee to recoup enforcement costs ($400 per image) and just asking for the actual cost of licensing the image that averages between $380 and $825 per image. “Despite the substantial difference,... View Details
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Advancing Social Enterprise Background I graduated from Harvard College in 1990. I was the first college recruiter at Teach for America with Wendy Kopp and I got to know the people who were starting up the Social Enterprise Initiative at... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
impact stayed. Kash, John, and I worked very hard to capture our findings in a single document. Alan Weber, at the time the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, did a magnificent job of taking our manuscript and making it accessible to managers. Our View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
initial project is completed. What are your current projects? We have three formal projects in Rwanda, India, and Honduras. In Rwanda, we’re helping Mission Schools International, founded by Brendan Kennealey (MBA ’06), establish a... View Details