Inner Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

global community, one that represents and respects the best of our collective backgrounds and traditions and that is a living example of how people from all over the world can come together around a set of common values, and though not always agreeing— sometimes even... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

working in Southeast Asia for a young Silicon Valley startup called Kiva, which is a microfinance lender. Haryopratomo: I was on my motorbike traveling across Vietnam, Indonesia, and Cambodia, and I was giving out loans and I realized... View Details

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

of all, I had really good jobs, right? I liked the work I did. I liked the variety. But also the nature of the work I thought was, you know, great fun. I didn't have all great bosses, but I had a lot of... View Details

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

work and how the parts fit together. We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with." In short, Roth has determined that successful marketplaces require three key elements. "They must be thick,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), and competition will shift... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based service examples brought to View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

School's MBA and doctoral programs. He discusses the findings and implications of his research with HBS Working Knowledge. Ann Cullen: You point out that historically some assets might look riskier than they actually are and some might... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

above and below, by virtue of having been there for a long time and by virtue of people thinking that given that this is your baby—that what you're interested in is in the interest of the organization—that is more likely to happen if you're one of the founders or major... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

deep appreciation for education, one that took Ryan through his studies at Wayne State University and into the PhD program in engineering at Cornell. It was a path that ensured a secure future, but Ryan didn’t love the work. Rather than face a View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

Part II: Owned and Earned Media Define owned and earned media and how to incorporate both into your marketing plan. Explore the process of working with influencers and learn to manage and measure their impact. Highlights Maggie Malek, MMI... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

Class of 1925 February 1940 The first known casualty among the alumni of the Business School during the present war was Lt. Claus von Bohlen und Halbach, son of the head of the Krupp works in Essen, Germany. He was an aviator in the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

remade his mother’s broken washing machine into a chair. He loved to work with wood, shaping a table out of raw planks. Transforming the things around him was an outlet, a way to make his vision a reality. Studying architecture was a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies... View Details

04 May 2018
News

How to Win the Kentucky Derby

alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old to work on a racehorse farm in New Jersey. I think... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

empowering differences. Using multidisciplinary methods, his research uncovers the experiences of people—especially of those who are marginalized due to race, body type and other axes of identity—when engaging with fashion images and clothing. His View Details

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