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HBS - The year in Review
and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
their boards of directors. It's a tribute to his years of experience as a corporate and community leader and to his stature as one of Canada's most distinguished executives. Barford graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
internships in venture capital and at an ag-tech (agricultural technology) startup before school, I saw how unsuccessful commercialization was often a key barrier to large-scale deployments of new scientific discoveries and innovations in... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
to move into palm oil—a much more capital intensive crop to process, with higher barriers to entry for small farmers. Geopolitical forces also played a part in the palm oil industry’s development, Giacomin says. After World War II,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
several high-rise condo buildings on a barrier island on Florida’s West Coast. As the book’s heroes had feared and warned, the island is overflooded by a hurricane of biblical proportions. The buildings collapse, many people die, all... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
such topics as custom product or service programs for large customers, and coordinated communication messages for all dealers and end users can be specified. A major underlying point of contention will be the freedom for people in the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
fabricated or real crisis is an essential ingredient for effective change management, as an existential threat breaks down many barriers to change. With such an unprecedented crisis, it is stretching and breaking apart even the strongest... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
because they aren’t interested. “It’s simply that it was too costly for them to do so,” says Pons. Lowering the barriers even slightly had a dramatic impact on voter turnout and engagement. What’s more, a post-election survey administered... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
that creates unacceptable, even dire inequities for our Black community members,” writes Nohria. “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaning in for a more equitable world
In her 2013 bestseller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg (AB 1991, MBA 1995) encourages women to be ambitious in their personal and professional lives, and to confront the external and internal barriers to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case study on Rakuten. “One day the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
men and women. In a panel discussion focused on how women approach money, Senior Lecturer and Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Kristin Mugford pointed out that financial equality isn’t just about closing the pay and wealth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
growth dispelled the idea that something about the “nature of India” made rapid growth difficult. Broad-ranging reforms in the mid-1980s and early 1990s deregulated legal barriers to entry into many industries and greatly reduced View Details