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Preparing to Be a Corporate Director
C-level executives who are board-facing (e.g., CEO, CFO, CHRO, CSO) and seek to strengthen their leadership capabilities Partners from audit or consulting firms Partners View Details
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Hiring Organizations
Children SB Energy Scale AI ScaleUp Capital SCF Partners School and Beyond Foundation, The Schusterman Family Investments SE Ventures Sedgwick Segue Sustainable Infrastructure... View Details
- September 2021
- Case
Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World
By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
Bertini, Marco, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World." Harvard Business School Case 522-003, September 2021.
- August 2024
- Case
Oculii
By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo
It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems... View Details
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Disruptive Innovation
Implementing a strategy of low-cost positioning Scaling fast to take advantage of network effects Outsourcing activities that are not your current core competence Sourcing new leaders from inside the firm Expand your personal View Details
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Institute Armen Mkrtchyan Origination Partner Flagship AI and Marketing Join Sir Martin Sorrell and Associate Professor Ayelet Israeli for a discussion about the profound... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
the company's bid for the advertising concession in Shanghai's 13 existing and planned subway lines. This is complicated by the fact that he is also a general partner in Gobi Partners, one of DMG's largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Struggles and Standard Chartered Bank: Managing Global Key Accounts Robert G. Eccles and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 411-011 Daren Kemp, a partner at leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Business School Case 717-431 Elon Musk's Big Bets Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Partners company, joins host Mike Toffel to discuss building the infrastructure and investment models needed to scale the circular economy. Lauren explains how Closed Loop... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
closely, the researchers conducted an online survey of nearly 600 people in the United States, asking them to recall their social interactions the previous day and categorize them into categories like stranger, acquaintance, friend, or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation
By: Leonardo D’Amico, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America.
Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after
World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from 1940 to 1970
shows... View Details
D’Amico, Leonardo, Edward Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, William Kerr, and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto. "Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-027, November 2024.
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
70 1970 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
it, he bemoaned decisions (for which he accepted responsibility) that improved efficiency and increased economies of scale but robbed stores of some of their essential magic, such as the smell of roasting... View Details
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
region or with a partner in the region Nonprofit organizations Government agencies, especially those working closely with the private sector The program content is global in nature and applicable to the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
a form and scale that has never existed before. You’re not just along for the ride—you’re part of the action. Imagine if you could have a true stake in Star Wars and own a... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
detailing the scope of Walmart’s operations and current strategies in the case “Walmart’s Workforce of the Future.” Published in April, it offers an overview of the considerable investments the retail giant... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
relatively low concentration of ownership and control in large firms before 1910. Archival evidence such as company statutes and shareholder lists document that in many Brazilian corporations voting rights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace