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From the Dean - Annual Report 2020

exhibit exploring how it affects business innovations. The US Competitiveness Project leaned into the contentious political climate with a report detailing the structural failures in the US political system and how they are holding the... View Details

27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/813113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-078 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
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Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari

A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal

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Abby Falik

Abby Falik, MBA 2008, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, is rethinking the traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates. In ten years, Global Citizen Year has supported nearly 1,000 fellows in experiential, community-level View Details

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2018
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Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

innovation policy advisor in the Mayor’s office, Henry’s 2017 Fellowship year drew him into “ambitious tech projects solving big challenges in the city. This is not tech for tech’s sake, but to address issues like housing, transportation,... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

faculty members. Finding “Hidden Workers” Even before the pandemic upended the workforce, American companies complained about the “skills gap” that left essential jobs unfilled while millions of Americans remained unemployed. HBS’s View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

Japan Research Center (JRC) hosted a virtual reunion in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the course. The reunion drew about 130 attendees, including 60 alumni who took the course as students and project partners. The Tōhoku region... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Estonia, Incorporated

and can gain access to the European Union market along the way. “On the level of administrative and operational simplicity alone, this is a winner,” says Kumar, an American who had never been to Estonia before this project but is now an... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

criteria: A project which has as a key component of its activities the creation of social value in a significant and sustained manner. The Competition is designed for projects that are in either the concept... View Details

02 Jun 2011
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Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

current tax rates or government benefit programs in retirement and health care—a big "if". Stating that net debt (financial liabilities minus financial assets) levels of 200 percent of gross domestic product are unsustainable, the authors View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA

Life Project Partner Locations Locations Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Hong Kong, China London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku, Japan Tokyo, Japan Filters Read... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

Hubert, SVP at Viacom and head of Scratch, the company’s “creative SWAT team.” That means change on a global scale: Millennials, currently one-third of the global population and more than 85 million strong in the United States, are View Details

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to pursue this research? Amy Edmondson: This research, rather than being a single project, is part of a fifteen-year program of a half dozen or so projects in different settings, all focused on learning in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

16 Jul 2018
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3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando

Photo Studios, Picture Post Production and the Content team. I was surprised by how many stakeholders are involved in the process of launching only a 3 day long campaign! As for my daily work, I have started supporting another project... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Carol Lauson

then into more corporate development. She also was involved in a mergers-and-acquisition project with lead responsibilities for United Agri Products and Trimble Navigation, a high-tech company that created location-based technologies... View Details

05 Oct 2018
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The Reflective Leader

have participated in many experiences that contribute to lifelong learning such as lunch and learn webinars featuring faculty, monthly podcasts, club events featuring influential speakers, and the annual alumni/student capstone project... View Details

23 Jun 2016
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How I Structured My Second Year at HBS

Launching Tech Ventures) and classes that taught lessons that seemed hard to replicate outside of an HBS classroom (such as Investment Strategies, Authentic Leadership Development, and The Coming of Managerial Capitalism). I also registered for one Independent View Details

01 Mar 2021
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Climate Finance SIP

outlines how to make this change: “A successful transition plan leverages technological innovation and regulation. Many technologies are ready for deployment but require project financing to scale. Other earlier-stage and riskier... View Details

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