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04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, writing just a... View Details

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

looking at how students are matched with schools. We helped New York City design a new matching system for assigning students to high schools. (Under their old system, 30,000 students were assigned to high schools they didn't choose,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

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

duties." 7 From the beginning, Doriot connected the worlds of education and business. He believed teaching business administration should be based on the realities of running a company rather than academic theories. He drew from his own work as director of numerous... View Details

08 Jun 2023
News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

the Harvard Club in New York City on April 14. With 100 alumni and guests attending, the evening kicked off with the inaugural presentation of the HBSLAA Distinguished Alum in the Latino Community Award to Jane Veron (MBA 1991), CEO and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

change it for ourselves and we can change it for the women coming up behind us.” In March 2018, Pent and Hagemann birthed the idea of the formal network, and seven months later held a retreat in New York City for 42 former WOB... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

a number of cities to promote My Vast Fortune, which has received rave reviews from readers. Says one, music industry mogul David Geffen, "If you don't think finance, politics, or real estate can be funny, read Andy's book." View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

providing leadership for the eleemosynary institutions and many of the political institutions” in virtually every city in America. “One of my hopes is that the GLF has fueled your interest and passion for being part of the solution and... View Details

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

says. The best part of his job, says Offensend, is watching EDC’s work being used in the field and seeing its impact. One recent example thrills him. The percentage of female students who took AP computer science courses in New York City... View Details

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B) Tarun Khanna and Tanya BijlaniHarvard Business School Supplement 712-402 Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
News

Golden State of Mind

It’s just another picture-perfect day in downtown San Mateo, California, a city that walks the line between high-tech polish and down-home simplicity tucked between San Francisco and the heart of Silicon Valley. “When you’re starting a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

difficulties of flying in a post-9/11 world. Long lines at security, delays, and meager service were the least of it. For many business travelers, getting from a big city to a smaller one was a tricky, time-consuming proposition, often... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
Case

Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

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12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

community through board work at Rising Ground and Service Program for Older People, both of which have rallied to help New York City through the crisis,” he says. Pandemic exposes underlying weaknesses in health care In Canada, mental... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

told a specific goal," says Chung, noting that 80 percent of firms in the United States use some type of bonus to reward employees. The field experiment spanned six months in the second half of 2013, and involved 80 full-time salespeople from branches in four major... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

make "vapes" attractive to children. Some states and cities responded with restrictions on sales and advertising, and, in April, the Financial Times reported that the World Health Organization will call for e-cigarettes to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic extremists; outrage over Russia's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

the team would continue to rise to new challenges. He knew change was both energizing and difficult, and that every victory had to be followed by the next play. He paused in his New York City office to think about how his team had handled... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2019
News

Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse

20,000 people to 150,000 people and it's a beautiful area, and I see this kind of old school development happening, you know and these big box stores and people coming and buying huge city blocks and making these really kind of boring... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

urban development. "Playing an active role in a relatively small city and a relatively small state, you get to know the mayor and the governor, and you can actually make things happen," Lazarus says. Wherever possible, he tries to point... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

individual contracts with each town or city they serve, after bidding against other cable providers for the chance to do so. They then, in turn, receive fees from broadcasters to be included in their limited channel lineup in each area.... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

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