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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
categories. Such comparability and equivalence of attributes makes it easier for consumers and other market participants to judge the relative value of the goods within the category based on shared assumptions of what is normative for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Traditional academic models of asset allocation are often at odds with conventional wisdom on investing. According to your research, some of this conventional wisdom might actually make sense for long-term investors. How does static... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
can be made not just once a year but multiple times daily. “What we show, theoretically, is that (algorithmic competition) leads to higher profits for both firms.” Enter the rise of pricing algorithms, where software monitors prices posted by competitors and View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
and complicated than it is today. So I would say the primary impact of the FDA over the past century has been to make predictable the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products regulated by the agency. As consumers we don't have... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches the Business, Government and the International Economy required course. Alfaro conducts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online
details on how we share and disclose personal data. 5. International Data Transfers Much of our Personal Data processing takes place in the United States, though sometimes we or third parties with whom we share data may process data in... View Details
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
almost entirely repurposed. We use the wool that comes off the hide used to make our twinface sheepskin products, meaning a live animal is not being sheared. We have taken additional steps to further eliminate our use of virgin wool,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
so that everybody feels like they have a role in making that vision come true. They also set up the systems and infrastructure for people to be effective within that organization, to collaborate and solve problems together and continually... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
bottom line: "Climate does affect in a fundamental way the basic picture of global development," said Sachs. Thus, the "harsh physical environment" of most of the countries in Africa "provides a tremendously difficult backdrop for economic development." In View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
“I’d like to see a number of our major corporations pick one African school of business, fully endow it, and help make it really good,” America says. “Upgrading management quality in the Third World will increase efficiency, creativity,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
similar on-demand companies Shyp, Washio, and Caviar. "I think it would be crazy to all of a sudden say that all Uber drivers are employees, because we would be effectively killing the business model" What to make of this brave new world... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
and contemporary art in the world. Stack was the architect of the Tate's "fifth gallery," its online presence. Stack had guided the Tate through two digital strategy planning processes, and his team had experienced much success in developing the Tate's fifth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
been left undiscovered. On discussion groups: You are purposefully placed with a diverse group of people, and you're going to disagree. With some folks, you’ll disagree on everything. The group Harvard assigned you to is not an accident,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
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Program Policies - HBS Online
pass CORe with High Honors, you must demonstrate a superior level of content mastery, and make exemplary contributions to the program through your engagement and participation. Pass with Honors To pass CORe with Honors, you must... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
transformation in the music and television industries as well. Their audiences are fragmented and people are demanding mobility, immediacy, and control over their media consumption. This makes some industries' traditional business and... View Details