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Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
to make the MBA Program coeducational. In 1974, Marshall became a faculty member in the Advanced Management Program and turned his attention to Executive Education. Several years later, he was tapped to teach in the Smaller Company... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
Writers may lament the uncertainties of the digital age, as many turn to online markets to distribute their work with no promises of fame or fortune. But when authors are guaranteed a cut of their own book sales, they tend to work harder... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
positive, but a negative facial expression may create the opposite meaning,” says Choudhury. Finding CEOs to test But where could the researchers find enough CEOs to conduct their study? It turns out that Khanna was familiar with the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
freezing snow, I almost turned back. But I trudged on and rang the doorbell, and the man who matched the voice on the phone welcomed me. When I stepped inside, someone shouted, “Annette!” I looked around and saw one of my professors,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
Retailers should be ecstatic. Last year was dismal amid the pandemic, with plunging revenue and record bankruptcies. But this year things have turned around. For instance, retail sales in April through June were up 28.2 percent from the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with the help of a grant from the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
of the System 360 and its successor, the System 370, left IBM to start his own enterprise, producing a plug-compatible System 370. Unable to raise the $40 million required to produce his system, he turned to Japan's Fujitsu, which... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
to use it quietly and to set an example." Anderson's life as a builder of businesses, caring employer, and dedicated philanthropist epitomizes those words. Noting that Anderson turned down the highest job offer made to any member of the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
anything at HBS. I came in with a plan and an idea of who I wanted to be post-HBS, but giving myself the time and space to explore, ask questions, and try new things turns out to be the best thing I ever did! HEALTH CARE Rhea Choudhury... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
my research on platforms, including Airbnb, Facebook, Instagram, Yelp, and Wayfair. There are lots of exciting opportunities beyond platforms as well. For example, one company recently found that increasing pay for lower-wage employees increased productivity and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
events, and activities. A few years ago, when plans for a garden began to percolate, volunteer director Bonni Leiserowitz remembers the conversation turning to “honoring those who came before us.” She and Keen connected and talked for... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
don't will fall behind. As a recent speaker at COP26 stated: being an early adopter is hard, but being late could be catastrophic. Ray A. Rothrock (MBA 1988) Founder, FiftySix Investments LLC Turn Climate Challenges into a Competitive... View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
feelings toward the man? Did your impressions of him change while writing the book? A: One of the joys of writing this book was dealing with Schumpeter's personal life. I knew it was going to be interesting, but not nearly so much as it View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
across the nation, to create a cohort. Then over the spring give them mentorship, workshops, and resources they need to create a functioning company. The dream is that by the end of the program, the teams we make are able to turn to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
innovations that will move the School forward. I’m a big believer that you are never too old to learn new things. So I’ve made a practice of going back to my notes at the end of each week to see and reflect on what I have learned. Invariably I say “wow,” because it... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
and 334,906 reviews in New York City, one of Airbnb’s major markets. Using reviews as a proxy for bookings, the researchers tracked reviews for the year before and the year after the pandemic began. They turned to NamePrism, a publicly... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Music to the HBS Classroom: My Journey as a Nontraditional Student in the Summer Venture in Management Program
hindsight, I don’t think any of us would have ever imagined just how meaningful our bonds were about to become. I shook hands with brilliant folks hailing from consulting, engineering, and finance fields - to name a few - who would soon View Details
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
R&D also come with more investment risk. While science-based patents are more likely to have higher values, they are also more likely to be total flops. In efforts to commercialize novel science, R&D teams often fail to replicate the key findings or struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details