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The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
Lerner, Josh and Scott Stern, eds. The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
there was not enough customer demand for its grocery delivery service. Next, there's the matter of timing, a huge issue that can determine whether a company gets funding and whether it achieves the start-up's elusive measure of success:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows,... View Details
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MBA Experience - Health Care
than 300 members that comprises MBA students, PhD students, and HBS partners with backgrounds that span all sectors of health care. Student Activities Many opportunities arise, both on and off campus, to engage in health care activities,... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
response, Jahez leaned more heavily on Logi to stay ahead. But at the same time, Logi had begun providing deliveries for external courier companies—creating new opportunities for the logistics arm, but also raising difficult questions... View Details
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
over their heads. In light of that, we were surprised to see such a big effect.” How scores of borrowers got out of debt The researchers took advantage of a rare opportunity to get an inside look at the effects of student debt by studying... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
offers Harvard Business School (HBS) alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to advance new ventures around promising life science technologies and develop their leadership talents during a 12-month... View Details
- September 2022
- Case
HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential
By: Brian Trelstad and Idelès Kaandorp
Stichting Het Potentieel Pakken (HPP) was launched to solve a systemic problem in the Dutch Labor Market: gender inequity that was leading to a large number of women to work part-time in fields that were in desperately short supply of labor, like health care, child... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Grants; Scaling And Growth; Nonprofit Organizations; Opportunities; Gender; Income; Employment; Health Care and Treatment; Human Capital; Mission and Purpose; Motivation and Incentives; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Health Industry; Education Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
Trelstad, Brian, and Idelès Kaandorp. "HPP: Tapping the Netherlands’ Potential." Harvard Business School Case 323-024, September 2022.
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South Asia - Global
broader economic trends reshape the private equity landscape, emphasizing the mounting challenges for smaller funds and the resilience of established firms amid industry consolidation. The event, attended by around 60 alumni, was... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
from Janae. How-- what do you recommend for cultivating happiness when you're at a low point in your life? Winfrey: Mmm. Goldberg: What's the work? Winfrey: I was at a low point. You know, I I I was in Maui when the fire started. And I started this big View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
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MBA Experience - Business & Environment
student-led clubs which can help you get to know students who share your interests, explore career paths, and deepen professional networks. Events A list of events for current MBA students. Funding View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
2011). Workers embrace outside the offices of Lehman Brothers in Canary Wharf in London, Monday, September 15, 2008. Courtesy of AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth. On October 3, 2008, under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government addressed the mortgage... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
pass-through persisted through 2021, even after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. Our findings suggest that federal subsidies and pandemic-induced reductions in spending opportunities explain the limited impact. 2025 Working Paper... View Details
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
Our Story In April of 2020, Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020) and Amina Mohamed (MBA 2020) watched their EC year turn upside down due to a sudden global lockdown and saw an opportunity for MBA students to get involved and help small businesses stay... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
By: Mitch Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard April 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with... View Details
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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS offers a rich portfolio of opportunities for MBA students to tailor their social enterprise engagement, including academics, careers, community, and paths for social entrepreneurship. Academics First-year students take courses that... View Details
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California - Global
65+ in the US, controlling the majority of net worth. This demographic shift created business opportunities centered on healthspan, wealthspan, and workspan. Primetime’s $50 million Fund 1 invested in 36... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
When American companies move pieces of their operations overseas—often because manufacturing and labor costs are much cheaper—they run the risk of moving the expertise, innovation, and new growth opportunities just out of their reach as... View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global
grounding their leadership in enduring values such as trust, responsibility, and intentionality, while also seizing opportunities aligned with long-term trends and driven by their passions and strengths. MAY 2025 ALUMNI EVENT Dinner... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
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How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
like education planning and account aggregation, advisory firms can strengthen their businesses, shows the study, which Di Maggio cowrote with five collaborators from the investment company Dimensional Fund Advisors. "The issue is, the... View Details