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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

relational dynamics of the world through reflecting, discussing, and practicing on real organizational problems. The Social Enterprise Initiative helps students, faculty, alumni, and practitioners connect and apply these insights to the... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

various courses by getting regularly from industry problems which are current and illustrative?” By 1923, two-thirds of the School’s courses were taught by the case method, supported by field-based research that had already begun to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has become a hot field, with cities... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2008
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Where Are They Now?

systems from Purdue. He joined the HBS faculty in 1976 and helped build the School’s curriculum in the nascent area of computer-based technology. With a few savvy, prescient students, he launched the Computer Industry and Technology Club... View Details

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional. It's just that the View Details

February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
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Doing Business in Boston, Massachusetts

By: Laura Alfaro, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Zeke Gillman

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Boston, Massachusetts while giving a broad history of the city and surrounding area. View Details

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Economic Growth; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts

24 Oct 2013
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Searching for a Better Society

needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has another, larger mission. The... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

24 Oct 2024
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Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

forest managers to HR, accounting, and public relations functions. It gave me even more exposure as I participated in state and regional forestry organizations while overseeing various technical and research functions. By the time my... View Details

June 2025
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Outcome and Process Frames: Strategic Renewal and Capability Reprioritization at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati and Jan Rivkin

[Research Summary]: Framing is critical for leaders who must build support for strategic renewal. While research has concentrated on renewal that replaces one set of capabilities with another, we explore a distinctive challenge: how leaders persuade stakeholders to... View Details

Keywords: Framing; Stakeholder Management; Capabilities; Transformation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Government and Politics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Public Administration Industry

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January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
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Google in China (A)

By: John A. Quelch

In January 2010, Google threatened in a public statement to stop censoring its search results on its google.cn website, as required by Chinese authorities. Should Google exit China? Or attempt a compromise with the Chinese government? View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; China

January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
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Mayhem on Madison (A)

By: A. Eugene Kohn and David Lane

In his first project, an aspiring property developer negotiates the development rights above a one-story bank branch in Manhattan's tony Carnegie Hill. Community resistance erupted immediately, spearheaded by celebrity and socialite residents. Facing rejection of his... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Development Economics; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)

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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

distinction in International Relations and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS). More at: @sarah_kaplan and https://sarahkaplan.info/ . Robert Livingston Dr. Robert... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

rolling. We are seeing that change can happen at the school level. Now the challenge is at the system level.” —Wendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach For America “The mix of government and private industry responsibility really depends on the... View Details

October 2018 (Revised September 2020)
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Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh

By: Mitchell Weiss and Brittany Urick

Pittsburgh’s mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out “the red carpet” instead of the “red... View Details

June 2012
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GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Ian McKown Cornell

Three years into a major public-private partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Fiocuz, Brazil's principal health institute, the company assesses technology transfer and joint research under the agreement. GSK was selling its Synflorix vaccine (against pediatric... View Details

Keywords: Public-Private Partnerships; Business and Government Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Globalized Firms and Management; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Brazil