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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
only one tool toward the larger purpose of motivating value creation. Healy: One of the things that strikes me is we have a whole set of alumni who are really outstanding people with excellent values. We have so many graduates who are... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for digitizing campaigns in Africa Why did you choose this internship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation around those questions. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
of several South American nations. Its operations in numerous energy-related industries have done much to improve the economic infrastructure of that continent's emerging countries. On the other hand, the close connections of some groups... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- January 2020
- Case
Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil
By: Julie Battilana, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey and Priscilla Zogbi
Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban areas and the official landowners—with the aspiration to improve the lives of the poor. A business-led approach to the... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Power and Influence; Social Issues; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Government Relations; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Battilana, Julie, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 420-092, January 2020.
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Yi-An Huang
internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Professor Sarah Kaplan of The Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto, and Professor Danielle Allen of Harvard University), all scholars with feet firmly planted in the worlds of both scholarship and practice, whose ideas have the View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
is run more like a partnership. Bradach quotes a popular industry adage, "You can tell company people, but you have to sell franchisees." These two units have often been viewed as operational opposites, with academics and managers trying,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
What did Time Warner have that AOL wanted? According to many industry observers, the driving force behind the proposed megamerger was AOL's strategic need to acquire access to the media giant's broadband hardware. HBS professor Stephen P.... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
impact of changes to an experience or product. Once an esoteric tool for academic research, the randomized controlled trial has gone mainstream—and is becoming an important part of the managerial toolkit. In The View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing last-mile delivery needs of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)
pursue a Ph.D. However, she now knew that she likely needed another advanced degree to be a decision maker in an industry like pharma/biotech. Zutshi joined the second-ever cohort of students in the MS/MBA in Engineering Sciences degree... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions explores the answers to these and other important questions. Edited by HBS professor Thomas K. McCraw, the book analyzes the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation scenarios that are characterized by unclear objectives and severely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
surrounded by an expanding ring of residential and industrial growth. And finally, the scrambled egg—a delicious mess but a mess nonetheless: the modern city, sprawling with opportunity, technology, and confusion. “Somehow,” Mostafavi... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do not exhibit price... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
consumer needs. “It would be awfully nice to be able to use data and predictive power to get computers to say ‘we recognize this pattern, we’ve seen this before, we should do x instead of y.’ It would get us there faster, more... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Jr., and other leaders to become larger-than-life figures; why society works the way it does, and what you can do to positively impact it, and the importance and power of close relationships. Fin Tales: Saving Cadillac, America’s Luxury... View Details