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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
enterprise. The lessons were dynamic and the perspectives were wide-ranging, including those from Professor Gail McGovern, who is now CEO of the American Red Cross. After a summer internship in the credit-card division at Citigroup, Kapila plunged into microfinance,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
but a study funded by the Department of Energy found that, over a five-year stretch, reality didn’t match predictions. Already AI technology is making progress, Nussey says. He points to the July release of GPT-4o mini, a lightweight... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a chosen few, but all agree that... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
explains how management challenges differ for proprietary and shared platform during subsequent life-cycle stages: network mobilization and platform maturity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-105.pdf Film Rentals and Procrastination: A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
recently left UCB and currently leads the procurement division at Adidas. That’s when she discovered Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, a first-of-its-kind course offered through the HBS Executive Education Program, which combines classes and case... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 25 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Dealing with FOMO at HBS
student, has gained perspective on balancing-it-all during the last 18 months. Britt grew up in the mountains of Sun Valley, Idaho and went to Georgetown University to study International Health and Development. Before HBS she spent three... View Details
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
entrepreneurial interests as two separate threads that came together in 2020.When I was at UCLA, I studied molecular biology. After deciding to not pursue medicine and feeling paralyzed by my career outlook, my dad recommended I take a... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
administrators together for lively presentations by colleagues and a panel discussion on “The Market for Management Ideas,” moderated by Walter Kiechel (MBA '76/JD '77), senior vice president and executive director of HBS Publishing.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
Experts have cited several factors that may make men more vulnerable to severe illness, including biological differences, higher smoking rates, and a greater reluctance to seek health care. This new study points to another reason men may... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
chief of Operations. “We have photovoltaic panels on a portion of the roof, and we run a cogeneration plant in the basement that uses natural gas to fire a generator to help power the building, with the waste heat going to create domestic... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Legacy of Boaty McBoatface: Beware of Customers Who Vote
Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award; they were told their votes would count anywhere from 0 percent to 100 percent of the final outcome, with the rest of the vote decided by a panel of experts. In another condition, participants were... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before jumping to an internal start-up,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
where I had confirmed my love for marketing but felt held back by my lack of business background. I studied Political Science as an undergrad, and my daily responsibilities focused on the "promotion" side of the function (i.e. social... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Electronic Monitoring Authors:Di Tella, Rafael, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Publication:Journal of Political Economy Abstract We study criminal recidivism in Argentina by focusing on the re-arrest rates of two groups: individuals released... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne