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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United States is already losing on the great economic battleground of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
no way out of the conundrum—that established companies simply lack the flexibility to explore new territory. Some have suggested that big companies adopt a venture capital model, funding exploratory expeditions but otherwise staying out... View Details
- Profile
Kevin S. Rollag
Kevin Rollag came with his family from Panama to the United States when he was fourteen. Although his Tacoma, Washington community respected education, the prevailing assumption, Kevin says, "is that smart people become... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was... View Details
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Carol Lauson
Junior Achievement project, and in high school, membership in the Business Professionals of America, which took her all the way to the nationals in a business exam competition. "I like numbers," Carol says, "so I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
series C stage. Feedback was so positive that regional Rock 100 Roundtable discussions are being rolled out as a way to continue the exchange and dialogue. “I know from personal experience that when you’re an entrepreneur, the path... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Eric Chavez
Eric Chavez, the son of immigrants who moved from Mexico to find greater opportunity in the United States, “does not take this life for granted.” His parents worked their way up from picking lemons in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
cleaning or cooking or doing your taxes? We ran survey studies with people living in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands, including millionaires as well as people who are less wealthy. And we found consistent evidence... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
unemployment. Nevertheless, a minimum wage increase is controversial. Why is that? Because the conversation is really about much more than a technical debate on the costs and benefits. Most people are aware that the long-term economic path for the View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
After many on and off signals, President Donald Trump pulled the trigger March 1 and announced he would slap long-term duties on steel (25 percent) and aluminum (10 percent) imports next week. The last imposition of tariffs on steel by the View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
The following article is the fifth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. "With the time-honored marketing maxim "the customer is king" now reverberating throughout all parts of the firm, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
Services. She notes that as of mid-December, the job bank had posted more than 1,000 positions in 47 geographic regions (primarily in the United States), representing 61 industries and 34 functional areas. Of its strong portfolio of job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
MIT, she grew deeply interested in “spending long periods of time living with and living like” the people she studied, “trying to understand the world from their perspectives.” In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the... View Details
Angle of Insight
Prior to entering HBS, I studied computer engineering as an undergraduate. I took a couple of classes about African American history in the United States, but beyond that I did not study history. My primary reason for coming to HBS was to... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Unequal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientists. That gap is becoming increasingly apparent across professions worldwide, for all kinds of working women as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the United States and around... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Franklin said, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." With Ebola, we're learning the hard way about the decline of the public health infrastructure in the United... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the most common culprits: Major... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill), Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA ’06), focus not on how the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Management