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- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk? Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia RahmanHarvard Business School Case 411-024 Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
$60 million foundation operates through a range of networks, among funders and grantees, to achieve broad impact. Funder networks and foundations that work through a network approach are relatively uncommon in the philanthropic sector. Eric Heitz, EF's president, seeks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
gift is spotting “extreme talent.” “It doesn’t mean that you’re extraordinary at everything or even a big thing, but that you’re a really extraordinary—different in kind, not in degree—individual,” he says. “If you can build the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
increase the likelihood of approaching a social venture with a business-minded bent. The team hypothesized that cultural gender norms might play a role, too. “Gendered cultural beliefs associate women with personal qualities such as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
selling venture capitalists on her idea and raising $400 million. She assembled a celebrity board, convinced Safeway to spend $350 million to build clinics in its supermarkets, and signed partnerships with Cleveland Clinic and Walgreens.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
just as they would any other asset. Harvard Business School professors Teresa Amabile, Mary Tripsas, and Mukti Khaire discuss where creativity comes from, how entrepreneurs use it, and why innovation is often a team sport. 13. Connecting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide Internet- and multimedia-capable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
sell," Serafeim says. "They're a good thing to do and the obvious thing to do." At this stage, more companies are likely to hire or appoint an official corporate sustainability officer, who works with the CEO. The CSO is often tasked with View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
DM: [laughs] SWG: And the second quarter, I began to think about is the stages of when you're building financial security, you're starting families. You might be starting to do some caregiving. You might be prioritizing wellness. And I... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
continued to live apart, a situation both understood wasn't sustainable. Should they build their life in the United States or Egypt? Meditation is one of Enan's morning habits; another is free writing in her journal. At the time, she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
only a conscious and concerted effort of group development can harness that strength. Outlines five steps in group development each team must take. Suggests that action learning, the skill the learning group must master to become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that determine whether and how marketplaces create value. Explains common causes of market failure and presents a framework for designing marketplaces in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
more for crafting negotiation campaigns than for doing solo deals. Analysis of negotiation campaigns builds on familiar concepts such as linkage and coalition building. In many cases, however, the parties relevant to a campaign as well as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
something that I feel is really important and needs to be done. And there’s just a really deep satisfaction and pride in that.And I think that it spreads, it’s not just feeling proud about what I’m doing, but I end up feeling so proud about the View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
poverty," she says, "I realize how incredibly rich I am." She and her husband also support the care of their son Bobby's siblings in Nepal, and Shuster-Haynes is helping raise funds to build a pediatric wing for a hospital in the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
sit-at-the-desk jobs where the hours matter, but an increasing number of jobs are run by self-managed work teams, in essence, where employees join virtual teams working from anywhere. IBM has done surveys that show that on any given day... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one. In this concise guide, Simons presents the seven key questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne