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- 06 Mar 2020
- Book
A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
there as a security net to help them, guide them, and confront them, they look at me and say, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I believe those 30-year-olds want the same thing the 60-year-olds want. They want an effective manager who View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
place in today's supply chain, as well as the far-reaching impact of information technology advancements. Outlining the program's curriculum, they explain how the participants leave the program armed with the principles and perspectives... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 May 2017
- Blog Post
The Diverse Community at HBS
HBS, and with my background in media and entertainment I wasn’t certain I’d find my place here. To my relief, HBS turned out to be much more diverse than I’d originally thought. Like any business school, it’s true that we have a lot of... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
workplace, at least to some extent. Organizations understand that they must become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive places, and that they must reach out to people as individuals of different backgrounds, engage with them on their terms, and View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
In the wake of COVID-19, organizations around the world quickly made changes to how they got work done, including managing summer internships. For many organizations, that meant creating remote internship programs in 2020 that will stay in View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
engage in a voluntary transaction, it must be because they both want to, and it makes them better off. The kinds of things I'm calling repugnant are transactions that some people don't want other people to engage in. Repugnant is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
have much money to begin with can make savings more feasible or more fun, or both. Given the diversity of financial conditions, social settings, and personal circumstances of families, and against the backdrop of consumerism in the United... View Details
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The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities
By: John D. Macomber
Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
Macomber, John D. "The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 64–74.
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Managing Through Crunch time—Without Burning Out Your Team
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
websites where members of the community could perform COVID-19 self-assessments, provide information about their vaccination status, and manage periodic required COVID-19 testing. Just as important, we have worked to make sure that... View Details
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
Accelerating Innovation Through a Network of Ecosystems
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49412 Forthcoming Management Science Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Consumer... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- September 2019 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
It's All About Family: Esas Group
By: Christina R. Wing and Alpana Thapar
This case describes how Ali Sabancı and his sister Emine Sabancı Kamışlı, shareholders of Esas Group, one of Turkey’s largest family-owned investment firms, worked to grow and professionalize the business. While their father Şevket Sabancı, played an instrumental role... View Details
Wing, Christina R., and Alpana Thapar. "It's All About Family: Esas Group." Harvard Business School Case 620-010, September 2019. (Revised August 2021.)
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
GeoMatch software application. The team built algorithms that predicted places where refugees were most likely to find work, which they considered one of the best indicators of a family’s success in assimilating. Their second goal: To... View Details
- 2022
- Case
Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?" William Davidson Institute Case 6-796-717, 2022.
- June 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Alibris (B)
Takes place more than two years after the (A) case. Alibris has weathered the storms and has built a popular, growing business. As the Christmas season of 2000 approaches, the company is confronted with two IT projects that both seem urgent and important. The first is... View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Service Operations; Competitive Advantage; Information Management; Service Industry
McAfee, Andrew P. "Alibris (B)." Harvard Business School Case 601-166, June 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this heterogeneity, while also identifying places where we anticipate future large-scale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
I applied to the HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) MBA/MPP (Master of Public Policy) Class of 2023 to learn about the interplay between the public and private sectors in health care. Health care spending in the United States will soon View Details
- 21 Apr 2013
- News