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Danny Lipsitz

2013. Importance of having the right people When visiting campuses to evaluate MBA programs, Danny was “impressed by the caliber of people” he met at HBS. “I had thought it would be a cut-throat environment, but my experience here turned... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

to host a similar event again next fall. To read summaries of the summit sessions, visit www.hbscny.org. Click on “Social Enterprise Summit Summaries.” Clubs Go All Out for Community Service Projects To mark the School’s Centennial, 68... View Details

03 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups

they can add. Sample projects might include: Competitive/Pricing Analysis Market Analysis & Segmentation Business Partner Evaluations Due diligence & ROI analysis New Business Development It is not... View Details

Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship

15 Dec 2015
Blog Post

One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group

process and play. Someone once told me that recruiting is as much about you evaluating the firms as it is about the firms evaluating you. As I look back on that hectic fall of last year, what stuck out most... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail

16 Oct 2019
News

The Road to Impact

education, promote health, and expand economic opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Founded in 1958, EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs that range from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

levels of the company, particularly from the CEO. Evaluate the company's other start-up efforts and how it handled projects that failed in some regard, said Jim Barron, vice president of Innosight L.L.C., a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

product or a new way of thinking about the business. The leader of the Google X team that developed Project Loon (the self-driving car), Astro Teller, is cited by investor John Doerr for this elegant definition: “If you want your car to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress... View Details

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BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

BiGS Research At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we advance rigorous, practice-oriented research at the intersection of business and society. Our projects explore corporate ownership structures, sustainable industrial... View Details

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

development and manufacturing growth of their home countries. The most recent work here, with my HBS colleague Fritz Foley, studies how U.S. ethnic inventors aid the FDI and foreign R&D sourcing of U.S. multinationals in their home countries. A second set of View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

opportunity to reflect on how their own personal values should interface with their approach when designing incentive systems to shape others' behavior and when developing strategies to motivate themselves. Group Project and View Details

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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Michael Porter’s competitiveness frameworks More about competitiveness frameworks Baltic Rim Project The Baltic Develop Forum seeks to stimulate growth, innovation and competitiveness in the Baltic Sea Region and its 11 member countries.... View Details

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

expertise and bias on decision making and applies it in the context of peer review at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). I find evidence that evaluators are biased in favor of projects in their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While projects were receiving full... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

Enterprise track at the New Ventures Competition; the iF Gold Design Award; and a Blavatnik Fellowship. Another team launched its AI innovation in thirty clinics. The course begins with case studies of how to evaluate the viability of an... View Details

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among alternative... View Details