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28 May 2019
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Future Source

Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.) “Thirty years from now, I want to enjoy living here,” he says. “For me, that means building businesses that will alter the trajectory of society and thousands and thousands of people.” View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Howard J. Morgens

Morgens is credited with leading P&G through its most significant growth period. He introduced P&G Productions, funding the first television soap operas, as a means to promote P&G products. During his tenure, he introduced the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

small schedule adjustments to accommodate personal appointments; and “time shift,” an employee who has a customized regular schedule, such as a four-day workweek. These strictly defined categories have helped employers understand that the switch to workplace... View Details

22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

anymore, and here we talk about why that's been key to his success. READ MORE Morrell: Scott, when you're leading an organization like a sports team, are there are ebbs and flows like there are in the locker room? And by that I mean like... View Details

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

for behavior, and draws on concepts and techniques from neuroscience to inform her research in marketing. For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end goal of selling more stuff. But the tools, once restricted to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

forge a marketing deal with Canal Plus, the leading pay television company in France. These examples highlight two critical characteristics of networked incubators. First, networking is institutionalized, meaning that the incubator has... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

Welcome to the age of business interdependence, say HBS professor Marco Iansiti and collaborator Roy Levien, authors of the new HBSP book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation,... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which View Details

January 2024
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ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui

ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details

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29 Sep 2020
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A Righteous Path

organization to meet this growing need means managing growth—recruiting talent, developing office culture, finding room for everyone to sit, and, of course, fundraising to sustain the work—all while staying laser-focused on Safe Passage’s... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 May 2013
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C.D. Spangler Jr., MBA 1956

"I was a student from 1954 to 1956, and my father was here in the fall of 1955," says Spangler about his family's HBS legacy. The two became the first father-son team at HBS. "This place means something to us. It was significant in my... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

resident healers. A 10-year board member at Blue Deer, Sprinkles offers healing sessions, hosts monthly fires, and leads an initiation program for young men. “I see elderhood as providing the model for how to walk in the world in a way that provides View Details

10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers

health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,”... View Details

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

deals. The problem, according to these executives, is that foreigners are rarely invited. "It's really a perception that foreigners can't appreciate the culture," says Chua. In practice, it means that foreign businesspeople are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

witnessed the company’s scrappy nature, commitment to innovation, and operational creativity. Key Takeaways from the Log 9 Site Visit The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course at HBS introduced the Diamond-Square framework as a means to... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)

it’s going to be war.’” What makes him Italian: “The ability to get angry or very happy in a seamless way that is impossible for Anglo-Saxons to understand. Joking about everything, even in the darkest moments.” British mysteries: Euphemism. “Saying ‘interesting’ to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; technology; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Matt Segneri

visionaries with great ideas, but people who can make things happen. We learn that it involves three key steps: diagnosing the situation; determining what you would do; then figuring out how to do it. And so much of all that means... View Details

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Darrin Rahn

perspective and set myself up for a long-term career in food and beverage leadership," says Darrin. "By going to HBS, I would surround myself with the best and brightest minds who would push me to think bigger, more globally, and more diversely. The future of... View Details

Keywords: CPG

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

and places like colonial America where hard currency was scarce. Resourceful merchants and retailers devised clever instruments and institutions of credit that made possible large, complicated transactions even without a fungible means of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

stresses Margolis, “but also recreate the tension and excitement that happens in an interactive classroom.” Margolis, head of the first-year MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, explains that developing the courses for HBX “didn’t View Details

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