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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Artful Leadership When she arrived at HBS, Meredith “Max” Hodges (MBA 2010) already knew that she wanted to be the director of a nonprofit cultural organization. “I think that was the first line of my application essay,” she says, adding, “I had plenty of opportunity... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
dangerous—18 astronauts and cosmonauts have died during spaceflight as of 2018. Accidents can set a company’s program back months or years. One of Virgin Galactic’s test pilots died during a flight mishap in 2014, and a SpaceX vehicle... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Kanbrick took a majority stake in the patented boat-covering system Marine Concepts and established a dealer network across the Southeast. Since acquiring JM Test Systems, a third-generation... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
consumers’ clarion call with compassion and solution-based action that creates real value have a tremendous opportunity to reinforce trust and engender loyalty as they help to save the world. This is the true test for purpose-driven brand... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
such a product exactly as it exists in other countries, you would likely be in violation of both state lottery laws and federal banking regulations. Fortunately, one can test the structure under sweepstakes laws. Preliminary results for... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
of choices, so they can pick the activities that appeal to them, she says. And if a business is going to spend money on a wellness strategy, the company should test it out with a small group of employees first and see if it catches on... View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
than in recent years, indicating that a shift is potentially already underway. “The added uncertainties and costs of tough tech development and commercial exploration require a different approach to testing the startup’s hypothesis,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
Reading The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy What's your take on the vulnerability of open source software?... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
individual-level choice behavior to be recovered from the data," according to the researchers. The team tested the new model by looking at the marketing of prescription drugs, namely, statins, used to lower cholesterol levels in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
work toward Jobs's "beautiful, elegant solution." This requires companies to be astute about how they prototype and test. IDEO adheres to the "three Rs" rule: rough, rapid, and right. For example, when testing the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
analytics, to take the emotion out of the decisions-- all day breakfast was a great example of relying on a very consumer-focused idea. But allowing the analytics and the pilot market, so the test versus control, to highlight the... View Details
- 24 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business
Page and MacLennan didn’t need to enact big changes at Cargill and so they weren’t tested in this way. In your succession plans, I recommend that you initially consider all four options. Don’t presume that one type or another is right.... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
help leaders learn about leading through a crisis. There they will develop much faster than they will in leading through good times, or studying how other leaders behaved in crises. As the military learned long ago, there is simply no substitute for being in the thick... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
3 Facts About HBS Discussion Groups
different strengths and weaknesses learn from each other to better prepare for class. By reviewing interpretations and numbers for different cases, students can make sure they are on top of the material and can test out opinions and ideas... View Details
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I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
solutions such as the construction of mobile COVID test units with medical teams, which have so far tested over 60,000 people. The design was donated to 10 hospitals and is now also available for free... View Details
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details