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Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve institutional processes,... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

was launched. The results were stunning. Sales rose more than 85 percent over the previous year and the initial shipment sold out within weeks.   The U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), based at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

initiative to build a sizeable collection of images documenting the company and its subsidiaries around the country. Photographers included exceptional artists such as Russell Aikins, Robert Yarnall Richie, Fred Korth, and Fritz Henle. A... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

fill people’s intrinsic motivational needs as opposed to making it simply contractual.” In the executive education courses DeLong teaches at Harvard, he has conducted a simple exercise—asking participants to write down the initials of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

number-crunching, understanding macroeconomic indicators – these and more are better covered in business school than in education school." "I was initially intimidated by my finance classes," Peggy admits. "I was in... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 06 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

inside a firm. With effort, some people did develop an innovative vision of what changes would be needed and a smart strategy of how to make those changes. Then, in trying to explain this to others and achieve sufficient buy-in, the View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

leadership team and broader organization. At Birchbox Katia has adopted the concept of conscious leadership which she defined as: always being forthcoming with your feelings about a situation before diving into the details. In practice, members are encouraged to start... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2021
  • Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

requested at the time of the initial gift in terms of the types of solicitation processes that the donor would be receptive to was adhered to for many years. However, time and circumstances ultimately changed the preferences of both the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Jan 2017
  • News

Improving Health Care Delivery

Health Care Initiative Advisory Board. “Our goal is to make the health care delivery system more efficient and effective,” he adds. “We want to help HBS extend its impact in the field.” View Details
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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

in prize money and have access to mentoring and other resources. Applications due in January. Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 09 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
  • December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

21Seeds: Taking Shots at Breakout Growth

By: Elie Ofek, Julian De Freitas, Michael Moynihan and Nicole Tempest Keller
21Seeds, a female-founded flavor-infused tequila startup launched in 2019, had made inroads into the alcoholic beverage industry by focusing on an underserved consumer segment in spirits—women, primarily in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were moms—and by following a... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

RunKeeper

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage Funding; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Health Industry
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  • March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
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American Well: The DTC Decision

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Telehealth; Telemedicine; American Well; Schoenberg; Boston; Israel; Technology; Online Care; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Health Insurance; Affordable Care Act; Health Care Reform; Accountable Care Organizations; Technology Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Digital Marketing; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Marketing; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States; Israel
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  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

decade, Jakurski and a colleague decided to strike out on their own to form a brokerage firm. "We started with an investment of about $600,000," he says of the origins of Banco Pactual. "Money markets were in their infancy here, so there was ample opportunity." Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

result of his research was the establishment two years ago of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting Porter's model into practice. Now the father of two daughters, Ilana, nine,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 22 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich; Pharmaceutical
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Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details