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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research...
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
when she took a social enterprise class at HBS. "When I got to the social enterprise class, the creativity and the grandness of plans and sense of empowerment among the students and in the cases people...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
large crowd of students in Burden Auditorium and those who watched a simulcast in the overflow area in Spangler. What successful enterprises have done in the past has worked, he noted, using IBM as an example, so it’s difficult for such...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor...
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- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
recent research at Harvard Business School. In "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community," the authors—HBS professor Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards of...
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- January 2008 (Revised September 2008)
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Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C)
By: John A. Quelch and David Chen
In October 2007, the OLPC reported production delays and missed its shipment date. In early November, the $100 PC finally went into production, with initial shipments planned for Uruguay and Mongolia, and mid-month launched the "Give One, Get One" program. It enabled...
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Nonprofit Organizations;
For-Profit Firms;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Infrastructure;
Problems and Challenges;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Computer Industry;
Canada;
Mongolia;
Uruguay;
United States
Quelch, John A., and David Chen. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (C). Harvard Business School Supplement 508-065, January 2008. (Revised September 2008.)
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
centerpiece of the restoration project, the old Sundowner motel, was once home to “a struggling computer geek named Bill Gates who had a special deal with the Sundowner’s owner for an extended stay” while he tried to raise funds for his...
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Sara B. Wilkinson Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
mainframe computer system was announced which she was asked to teach in her branch. She retired in 1992 as a liaison between programming groups and the then head contractor on the Space Station. Before HBS At HBS After HBS Interview by...
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- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
two nuclear physicists for grandparents, I grew up in a strongly STEM household. My family fostered in me a desire to understand how things worked and I latched on to the then-nascent Internet and computer revolution. When it came time...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
quickly became interested in not only studying the phenomenon but in "actually trying to make something happen." Aided by the groundwork of a number of enthusiastic HBS social enterprise field-study teams, in 2001 Tufano launched the D2D...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
entrepreneurs are just as innovative and change-oriented as their business counterparts. Among academic institutions, HBS staked an early interest in the area by creating the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993, dedicated to...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a common computing infrastructure....
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Nations Operation in Somalia and was stationed in Mogadishu. A year after graduation, she accepted a six-month position as director of enterprise development in Tanzania with an international nongovernmental organization called...
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research...
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- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 14, more than 200 alumni in the New Your area gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in New York:...
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- 17 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
My Summer as a Venture Capitalist
me some standard interview questions, but then they asked, “what do you hope to learn and work on specifically?” I replied, “I want to source deals, see deal diligence, and work on investment theme development – specifically on enterprise...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National...
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by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exec Ed in India
HBS senior faculty will teach the School’s first-ever Exec Ed program in India February 10–15 in Hyderabad. The program, Building a Global Enterprise in India, offered in conjunction with HBS’s India Research Center, will feature cases...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
to found Numenta, an enterprise developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex. Working part-time, Dubinsky intends to stay with Numenta through the R&D phase and lay the...
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