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15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) Greg Shell (MBA 2001) and Corey Thomas (MBA 2002) launched the NCF in June 2020, along with 17 other executives of color from leading Massachusetts... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Art Nature Business

Artifacts Collection. Virtual Tour HENRY P. HUNT Cutting Ice at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts , 1859 Oil on canvas Gift of Frederic Tudor to the Business Historical Society, 1934 HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1934.2 This painting... View Details

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

(main price + other charges) stimulate people to look into the details of what they get for their money. Thus, price framing can be used as a tool to induce consumers to acknowledge additional points View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

irrigation is the free or low-cost availability of water to farmers. The case examines this and other challenges the company faces as it tries to scale. Netafim, founded in... View Details

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

locations, academics, venture funds, and other cities. The strategic sprint focused on 1) improved use of technology to achieve New York's policy goals, 2) growing the urban tech sector (market size, job... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

officer at CarbonCapture Inc. “The impact of the Inflation Reduction Act is enormous. I think it really hasn’t hit home yet,” says Jonas Lee (MBA 1993), chief commercial View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

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Brian T. Bedol

footage, it would be impossible not to have that kind of emotional reaction to it. I thought, “I need to try this.” Were there other serendipitous moments that jump out at you? We were having a very... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

1972 mentioned that "Harvard has the largest number of women students in any of the major business schools." By 1975, the magazine reported that two hundred women were enrolled at the School and that the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

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Prita Kumar

HBS alumni there. You just have to find them. If you could realize your dream as an entrepreneur, what would that look like? I would love to have a company with an office filled with employees who are... View Details

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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

learning is likely why Sanchez has had such a varied career in and outside of corporate America. Skilled at managing complex, multi-stakeholder organizations and building partnerships, Sanchez has led change initiatives inside View Details

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

every other good or service they purchase, most health care provider organizations, physicians, and insurance companies remain woefully unprepared to meet this demand. This book is the health care sector’s... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

the other wouldn't necessarily do better. The reason is that shoppers often go out of their way to give themselves greater choice; indeed, they're less likely to buy when they have just one choice. As a... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

of corporate purpose, and for good reason. Too many companies deploy purpose as a promotional vehicle to make themselves feel virtuous and to look good to the outside world. Some have only foggy ideas about... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

to be defective, and arrange for replacement parts to arrive (which themselves have to inspected). The low-price supplier may also not have a stellar on-time delivery capability. Its failure to deliver reliably at scheduled times causes the buying View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Margaret Rudkin, founder of Pepperidge Farms; and John Deutsch, chemist and provost of MIT, and later Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director of... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Datar—implemented a clear strategy: Maintain the quality of the educational experience by investing in hybrid and virtual classroom technologies; protect jobs by reducing noncritical expenses and holding... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

and Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on the long-term lessons of the global remote-work moment Meal Plan Inspire Brands Chief Growth Officer Christian Charnaux and investor Keith Pascal View Details

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Marcela Sapone

forefathers of this concept. “We’re just fine-tuning it,” she said. “People have been attacking this space but no one has done it quite the same way we have.” Headquartered in New York with an View Details

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