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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Personalized Learning in India IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
we need to learn to do now is optimize the use of energy and water. Since it's not something we've been focusing on very much, I suspect we'll see enormous progress." That's my sense as well. We need to transform the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
business leaders could, through US-led innovation, bolster American manufacturing and create thousands of middle-class jobs. Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor and the founding chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. You Might Also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
problem—and everyone wants to talk about it and share experiences and solutions. Bringing together a diverse group of professionals creates a powerful learning environment precisely because we can draw on a wide range of professional,... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
for All published by the Harvard Business Review. [Image: Hispanolistic] Related Reading Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like What... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
out the application in pencil to please an Army buddy when we were stationed in Europe, and my grade record at a little college in Iowa didn’t warrant admission anyway. Then I got his seat in the Stanford class. I’ve learned that this is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
all linked to this. In their survey in twelve countries of seventeen leading transnational brands in categories ranging from the quotidian (petrol and dairy) to the trendy (cell phones, athletic wear, autos, and soft drinks), Holt and colleagues View Details
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
Stevens — we never learn his first name—set out early in life to become a great butler, one of the very best. He didn't want to get rich at it. He didn't care for fancy clothes. What Stevens wanted more than anything, according to HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"feeling tone" he engendered around himself. He truly—passionately—believed you could learn from anybody. Because ordinary people knew that, they taught him all they could. Humility was a trait which no one ever accused Charles... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
history, and the lessons learned to date. It discusses the current challenges faced by policy makers wanting to further improve the program. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811100-PDF-ENG Continental Media Group:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
interview him, and he graciously agreed, spending 90 minutes talking with me about the deal and about dealmaking more generally. I learned a tremendous amount from that conversation, and it certainly fueled my interest in understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
different management systems. Through stories and cases drawn from years in the field, he reveals how health-care providers can successfully manage both modes. To do so, they must reevaluate traditional roles and embrace continuous View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
skills learned in parts of South Africa would be applicable to other parts of Africa. But South African firms have also come up with new products within sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. For example, the cell phone plans of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
route by which new designs come into being. Talking with other researchers, I learned that there were some theoretical open questions. In the first place, user-innovation communities are pervasive—wherever users innovate, they form... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
other aspect of my life for professional achievement, but professional achievement has been at the center of my decision-making process throughout my adult life." At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. By looking closely, however, we View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
educational activities within the HBS community. Our vigorous research program pushed outward the knowledge frontiers and created a rich portfolio of courses and learning opportunities for MBA students and Executive Education... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
innovation can be achieved whether a state is big or small, red or blue. There are fifty states in this union, and many are still waiting for the political innovation spark to be lit. Will you do it? Lighting that spark requires shaking away View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
prove their worth quickly, VCs may be underfunding other more complex types of startups that require more time to bear fruit. “One of the challenges with this approach is it really directs attention of investors to projects where you can View Details