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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
their capability to start a business six months from now, but also prepare them to think through entry decisions that will happen down the road. Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
modernization. The truth is, we are trying to solve these 21st century problems with 20th century technology and 19th century laws.” While hopeful about the future, Nicole admits that there are many structural obstacles that need View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
“If you look at it, you might think, ‘Oh, it’s just a plastic bottle,’” says Macadam. “But there’s more technology involved than you’d think. There are four layers in the wall of that container — one layer is an oxygen barrier View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
status 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act enacted to eliminate discriminatory barriers against qualified individuals with disabilities, individuals with a record of a disability, or individuals who are... View Details
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
rendition. Instant photography put users in command of an art form in which they could create, compose, and share images instantaneously. "By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject matter... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the true measure of success isn’t... View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
willing to make the sacrifices for the things we want, then those things become more possible. And it was that mental barrier that I had to overcome and also finding the thing... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
world to another. There is failure, success, and death. Marriage, children, and real estate. Fires, war, and moral weakness. And the ups and downs of one man’s bakery. “Age ab[ou]t 50, fam[ily] of ab[ou]t 5 children, has done an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
"someone else." All around the world, as trade barriers continue to fall, and capital markets become more integrated, restructuring is becoming a daily event, and every manager can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
one has long been the burning question for clients and their agencies," says Alvin J. Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. "Hence the famous saying attributed in US advertising circles View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
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Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
theoretical outcomes.” A major challenge, Diana said, is transmission congestion; i.e. connecting the new, renewable sources to the grid where there is capacity for electricity to flow where it’s needed.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
rather crude reference to the bathrooms used by two or three suites of students.” An expert in the fields of consumer marketing and retail distribution, Walter Salmon (MBA ’54) graduated from the City College of New York and was admitted... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied View Details