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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
advertising waste and noise." Howe likes to take a big-picture view of business problems, probably because of his training in economics. That process began early — at the family dinner table, he recalls —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
groups. Thus it is often essential to understand and manage linked games. To diagnose the impact of government on your business, you will need to pinpoint the types of games in which you are involved, the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
that we were enabling people to scale up, to be the platform for this exchange and to help partnerships where corporates could find not-for-profits, not-for-profits could find donors, so that the whole sector could grow. Public View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Times were hard for Webvan this year. Like other online grocers and delivery services that hit the screen in 2001—among them, Homegrocer, Kozmo, and Streamline—Webvan finally... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson When we discussed the concept of crucibles at HBS, my best guess then—based on my dating record and polycystic ovaries—was that I might struggle with finding a life partner and with fertility. As I re-emerge from my first real... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
change fast enough for the U.S. to have the workers it needs in any near-term way.” Tema Frank went even further, commenting that “ we are still reliant on the human factor so a lot of potential productivity is wasted through bad View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
author as well as corporate director. “While my HBS classmates veered toward management consulting and Wall Street, I took the technology road less traveled. I’ve always followed my favorite quote from View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I cut View Details
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
replicate the effects across a bunch of different domains ranging from Web service to vacations to cameras. Q: What is your practical advice to managers to avoid overchoice? A: There are a couple of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
advice, buy products, and manage finances. Enter iTrust with a range of services covering mortgages, mutual funds and other investments,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
preventing managers from wasting or misallocating free cash flow and deters related parties, including host governments, from trying to appropriate it. But is this always... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
professional (exempt); research associates; internal post docs; service & trade hourly employed by Harvard Business School (HBS); and support staff (non-exempt). It does not include Harvard Business... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Moss, “I’m concerned that if we don’t structure this bailout correctly, we could create an even riskier financial system in the years ahead.” Moss’s research has focused on how and why governments manage... View Details