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07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

people confined in their homes across the world. A key question many managers face now is how much and in what form to invest in risk-mitigating technologies and corresponding changes in products and services. This, to a great extent,... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

01 Sep 2003
News

Kumar Mahadeva

Cognizant provides application outsourcing services and 24/7 software project management for a small but intensely loyal client base of large U.S. and European companies. Widely praised in the business press for its innovation and growth,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

From Bolivia In a recent Academy of Management Journal article, Battilana and Silvia Dorado from the University of Rhode Island tell the true tale of two Bolivian microfinancing organizations, Banco Solidario and Caja de Ahorro y Préstamo... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

because my mom took me to work.” Namesake: Destined, a movie that turns on one chance-based event to portray two very different outcomes for a teenage boy growing up in Detroit. Why real estate: “My mom did an amazing job raising me as a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2022
News

In My Humble Opinion: Home Base

equipped to answer. The query typically came at the end of a session, after a productive conversation about delegating, managing a packed calendar, or presenting effectively in meetings. “But I’ve got six-month-old twins at home, and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2025 Western... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

For more than ten years, I have studied digital strategy and worked with scores of companies around the world on their digital transformation. I have seen first-hand what works and what doesn't. Here are a few highlights. Why digital... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

experience, and the size of the company discussed in the case, we found that the presence of a teaching note improved case adoption by educators outside HBS. If cases with female protagonists are less likely to have an accompanying teaching note, they’re less likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

compounded by the effects of climate change.” This past February, NPR offered additional explanations for Mexico City’s water crisis: “The reservoirs that supply around 20% of water to the city's 22 million residents are drying up. They... View Details

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

with ASD have average or above average intelligence, yet 85 percent are unemployed. “Their intellectual horsepower is quite high,” Harvard Business School’s Gary P. Pisano says of the ASD population. “They do things differently and they behave differently, but the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

farmland. We see our land’s ability to serve as a sink for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as a key element of the climate solution. As a farmland asset manager, we can direct restorative and regenerative soil and water management... View Details

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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni

play in repairing a divided America and world? This question lies at the heart of Harvard Business School’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which seeks to frame and examine a critical management... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

Sustainability Manager at HBS, and Leah Ricci, Associate Director of Sustainability and Energy Management at HBS–who were members of Harvard’s Environmental and Sustainability Professionals Network,... View Details

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

customer purchasing decisions based on layouts that change from store to store. “It’s around us now, and it’s growing.” "If something is very novel, there is little data around it to use." Thomke... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

September 2017 Management Science Channel Integration, Sales Dispersion, and Inventory Management By: Gallino, Santiago, Antonio Moreno, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos Abstract—We study the effects of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

here will make the MBA experience very different from many of the students, but as long as your priorities are clear you can make it work and you will likely find more people around to help than you imagine. HBS mama memory? I started... View Details

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

at happy hour by employees at the bar around the corner from the office—can go a long way toward informally educating employees on how the company really works. Managers can help institutionalize this kind... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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