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- 29 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Emerging Into Singapore
mixed group of local and multi-cultural young and driven people who I already have formed good friendships and memories with. Being an Avenger Global Fashion Group was founded over a year ago as an over-arching company that links its 6... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
500 times our money.” In the anecdotes that follow, alumni tell their own tales of a haunting “pass” and share the only return that came of it: some hard lessons learned. use this navigation to explore the anecdotes Don’t Be Dogmatic I have so many of these. What I’ve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
been there, done that, let’s try something new.” Reaping Dividends: As a founding member of the team behind New Leaders for New Schools, Benjamin Fenton is driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their malaria programs and eradicate the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
is a much more robust incentive instrument, and is less likely to be abused since its value is much more transparent.” Creativity in a Crunch Does having a tight deadline spark creativity or stifle it? When HBS professor Teresa M. Amabile and her research View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
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Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
Black Lives Matter movement had increased that percentage to 28 percent in 2020, but it has waned since then. Looking forward, Heidrick & Struggles’ report points out that its analysis of executive teams at Fortune 100 firms shows only... View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
four-and-a-half year period. Problems involved everything from biotech to consumer products and agrochemicals. Thanks to broadcasting, nearly one-third of the previously unsolved problems found successful solutions. "Innovations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
says. Her team detailed the findings in an article in the July edition of Health Affairs, The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany. Drug pricing, German-style Before companies can set higher prices for... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
while the factors that dampen creativity were found to be higher among projects classified as 'least creative.'" Soon after completing this work, Amabile learned that the company was planning an 18 percent reduction in its global... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models. Their success is View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
Chandra said.4 (Both Jagadeesh and Chandra subsequently left Exodus to found separate companies; some time later Exodus filed for bankruptcy.) Chandra, in turn, mentored fledgling entrepreneur Rajesh Reddy, who was in India in 1998-1999... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
founding in 1912. But overall, under 15 percent of US family firms are managed by nonfamily executives, according to the Family Firm Institute. Sadun's team plans to apply the findings of the family firm... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
paper, "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization," written by Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Adam M. Kleinbaum, and professors Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman. In an unnamed company with over 100,000 employees, the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Profile
Andrew Boudreau
school was missing out on revenues, and the world was missing out on terrific new innovations.” The business, Hopkins Technology Commercialization Agency, started with five students and quickly found “a lot of demand inside the university... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
(HGSE). Spearheaded by Grossman and Mary Grassa O’Neill, a senior lecturer at HGSE, the Certificate in School Management and Leadership is designed to give principals the tools to build and lead high-performing schools. The program combines HBS’s expertise in managing... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
infrastructure, and team. So many of my conversations with Reese, Lauren [Neustadter, Head of Film and Television] and other members of our team focus on: Is this the highest and best use of our time? We’ve View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Elizabeth Powers (MBA 2021) was thrilled to land a summer internship at a highly respected consulting firm. Then came COVID-19, and the firm announced it was shortening her job from 10 weeks... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
2024. The launch marks the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by a core team of alumnae, working closely with HBS, to expand the former HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) from a local alumni club to an association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley