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  • 21 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an View Details
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

Madeleine Diagne is an International Business student at the University of Houston – Downtown, and a Summer Venture in Management (SVMP) 2022 alum. Graduating high school during the height of the pandemic was yet another obstacle... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

TOMMY, JULIE, AND BILLY FRIST: New fund supports fellowships and innovation in financial aid. Photo Courtesy Frist family Financial aid at HBS has received a $10 million boost, thanks to a $9 million gift from the Thomas F. Frist Jr. Donor Advised Fund of the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • September 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

GoodGuide

By: George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles and Tiffany A. Clay
GoodGuide, a high-technology start-up company, founded by University of California Professor at Berkley Dara O'Rourke is at a critical junction. The venture capital funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Goods and Commodities; Business Model; Information Technology; Knowledge; Education Industry; California
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  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Transformation ; Globalization ; Information Technology ; Competitive Advantage ; Pharmaceutical Industry Citation Educators Related Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ben Creo. "Parexel: Scaling Up and Industry Dynamics." Harvard View Details
  • 07 Sep 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Joshua Cooper Ramo, co-CEO and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates. Ramo’s core thesis is that today's world of networks and connectivity may be the biggest game-changer of the future, whether the game is business competition, public... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

advantage of executive education opportunities to increase their business acumen. Q: How can managers ensure that legal strategy aligns with corporate strategy? A: Framing is critical here. There are legal... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness."... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

solved by technology, no matter how good. Anybody in retail or entertainment or education has a difficult situation to handle. Anybody delivering medical services faces an entirely different and unprecedented set of problems. For View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • June 2014
  • Article

Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

By: Joy Ishii and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance. Using data on educational background and past employment, we construct a measure of the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives... View Details
Keywords: Mergers; Acquisitions; Social Ties; Social Connections; Mergers and Acquisitions; Relationships; Outcome or Result
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Nonprofit Board Service - Alumni

Executive Education programs on nonprofit leadership: Governing for Nonprofit Excellence , Accelerating Board Capacity for School District Board Members and Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation . Faculty book: Effective... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

way to contribute to solutions at the legislative level. I fundamentally believe the yet-to-be-uncovered solutions to the issues I care about most, like racial justice, lie at the nexus of business innovation and legal knowledge. How have... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Education
  • 14 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer sustainable. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 30 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
  • Web

Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

business strategy—and identified a set of customers who were willing to pay a premium for healthy, environmentally friendly food. Shared Value and Company Strategy: Whole Foods Markets Natural, fresh, organic, and freshly prepared foods... View Details