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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Student ventures are placed into one of three tracks – Open, Health & Life Sciences, and Social Impact. Applications are due in December. Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project: Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project matches a team of 4 to 5... View Details

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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

SCIENCE ENTREPRENEURSHIP is led by Professor Peter Barrett , and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market... View Details

21 May 2012
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OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

never seen," Toffel laughs. "They were Memorex tapes about three-quarters of an inch tall and six inches square. We had to hire someone to make them machine-readable." The team brought on Matthew Johnson, then an HBS research associate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 May 2018
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How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

providing a real-time glimpse of changing neighborhoods, allowing policymakers to “forecast” where gentrification might be occurring and measure its effects. The team has worked closely with cities to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply

Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of... View Details

Keywords: April White

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A Commitment to Sustainability | About

at Harvard and beyond. HBS promotes sustainability across our community with support from Operations, the Student Sustainability Associates program, the Business & Environment Initiative , the employee Green Team , and Executive Education... View Details

31 Jan 2023
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It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

play in inequality as well.” You Might Also Like: The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less? Feedback or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Mar 2018
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Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

professor at UBC. The research team recruited 96 heterosexual couples to participate in the study. The men were instructed to wear a plain white t-shirt for 24 hours, and to refrain from using deodorant, smoking, or eating foods like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2003
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Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

value." Lawyers who have no experience working with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will most likely focus on the wrong things.—Constance Bagley # 10: Failing to incorporate early enough. One problem that arises here is the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team View Details

18 Jan 2022
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How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

and execute on their own independent projects. First, they need to autonomy to work creatively in areas of their own interest, for instance by intentionally allocating them free time on their own or in teams... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

10 Apr 2014
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John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

product, move into markets faster, focus on high-growth in Asia, and reduce sales costs. A so-called urgency team of 21 people spent three months working on a plan, developing support material, and creating... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts

electric vehicle production? In this episode of Managing the Future of Work, hosted by HBS professor Joe Fuller, Volvo's chief people officer Hanna Fager explains how the company revamped jobs throughout the organization. How to Manage: Negotiating for Your View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team View Details

14 Jul 2003
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Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

21 Mar 2024
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SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

of the student speeches at our closing ceremony. Despite my initial fears, SVMP provided me with a safe environment to grow in this regard, too. The courage to fail at leading internal case teams. At the start of the program, we were assigned to small View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. 2014 Working Paper Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions By:... View Details

16 Mar 2023
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Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap

Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

29 Oct 2012
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Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

to leave payment for their hosts' servants at the end of their stay as a way of compensating for the extra work their visit created. Today, most people in Western societies draw a distinct line between tipping and bribery, and the fact... View Details