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25 Jan 2016
Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

just whatever works the best for your family. 3. You might have to schedule your together time I would say the biggest challenge Spencer has faced is me having such a busy schedule and feeling like we... View Details

Fall 1997
Article

Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920

By: Brian Trelstad

“Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national... View Details

Keywords: School Garden Movement; United States

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Many professionals aspire to work for a start-up. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today’s dynamic innovation economy. Yes, start-ups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

wonderfully in the past no longer suffice. Drawing on the work of a number of thoughtful researchers as well as our own work, we are exploring a set of theories that can help managers respond to the... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

June 2023
Article

Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Deployment of Digital Innovations

By: Rebecca Karp

Scholars have long suggested that to foster adoption for their innovative products and services, entrepreneurs should engage with customers to better understand their unmet needs. Yet, customers frequently reside in organizations, and organizational members may not be... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Digital Innovation; Healthcare; Work And Organizations; Organizational Adoption; B2B; Customers; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

can learn to mimic, associating the right output to a given input. And this paradigm works fantastically well. Increasingly, these models are trained on very large datasets... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

whether corporate culture might act as an impediment to greater uptake of the available programs. Working directly with employees in a systematic way would be one important step toward increasing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2016
News

The right thing to do: Why more U.S. firms need to learn from JP Morgan Chase

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

Florida after serving his time would likely land him back in jail. Rekindled relationships with an aunt and grandmother in Ohio inspired him to turn his life around and move to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

When we tell microfinance practitioners about this evidence, it can be hard for them to really engage with it because of their work on the ground and the anecdotes they hear about lives that have been... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

In this case, the most profitable 40 percent of customers generate 130 percent of annual profits; the middle 55 percent of customers break even, and the least profitable 5 percent of customers incur losses equal to 30 percent of annual... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

01 Mar 2023
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How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

employees. Nikos Mourkogiannis cited four types of purpose that provide “sources of energy” for an organization: Heroism: The desire to change the world and society. Discovery: The challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

egocentrism: we are bad at knowing what topics will be interesting to others, we give backhanded compliments, we make offensive (or boring) jokes, we forget to ask questions, we ask the wrong questions, and... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

designed from the beginning to sit in the enormous space between cheap manual toothbrushes and ultra-high-end electrics produced by companies such as Gillette and Johnson & Johnson. Osher wanted his offering View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

26 Jun 2020
Blog Post

(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals

local hospitals and clinics. Scaling Our Project Over the next few weeks, we worked together to fundraise $3.5 million and purchase over 1.9 million pieces of PPE. In true start-up fashion, we moved... View Details

15 Nov 2018
News

Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want... View Details

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

27 May 2021
News

Will Offices in the Twin Cities Ever Return to the Way They Were?

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

remained heavily engaged in nonprofit work while at the same time starting to explore her interest in business. This time, it was her father’s for-profit business career that captured her curiosity, and an... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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