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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Introducing a New Free HarvardX Course: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change Brian Trelstad... View Details

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

exploratory study of learning processes in globally dispersed new product development teams. These qualitative data are used to investigate components of team learning previously highlighted in the team learning literature—namely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2007
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When Good Teams Go Bad

Concludes Polzer, "The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members successfully to fit the demands of their task but also energize team members through the bonding that comes with striving toward a common goal. It's important to... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Organization, Entertainment & Media Club, HBS Tech Club, Volleyball Club Laura Sandoval “I almost didn’t apply here because I didn’t think I’d get accepted – why waste time on a long shot? But I’m glad I accepted the risk View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created View Details

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

to boost revenues: matching prices at Amazon, and speeding deliveries by shipping directly from stores. He also cut costs by reducing waste and streamlining processes. “We were... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

by factors associated with climate change and the wide-ranging effects of environmental risks are impacting the financial sector in unprecedented ways. Industrial Production & Materials Reducing Waste... View Details

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

very process of discussing, in precise detail and with great discipline, these issues develops "wide-band width" communication between buyer and seller. Each has the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those differences reflect the trade-off... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2011 (Revised January 2019)
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Talismark

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Talismark, which helped its customers manage their waste, was considering re-engineering its business fundamentals to dramatically increase profitability by changing its sales and information processes. Implementing the changes would be expensive and would interrupt... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Business Processes; Information Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Wastes and Waste Processing

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Business History - Faculty & Research

production technology who used attorneys in connection with his patenting work at a time when Japan was still in the process of formally institutionalizing its patent attorney system. In accordance with Lamoreaux View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Food Waste by Dina Gerdeman More Articles Harvard Business Publishing May–June 2025 Article Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation By: Ivanka Visnjic, Felipe Monteiro and Michael L. Tushman April... View Details

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

how the absolute can be changed. A few suggestions: appropriate education; socio-economic policies that foster the family unit; incentives for capital formation and application, health improvements, elimination of resource View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jun 2020
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It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

diagnose whether or not you're optimizing on it. And then, more important, how you can fix it immediately. It’s not, “Oh, my gosh. We have to rebuild trust. Let's come up with a five-year plan.” You will have View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Aug 2019
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How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

the hiring process for as long as possible in the early stages. The first 10-15 employees will set the culture of your company, and how you lead them will set the tone for leadership going forward. As you... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

27 Jun 2011
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Recovering from the Need to Achieve

productivity and only creates cynicism. "The evidence is clear that individuals who are highly engaged make more money for their organizations," he says. "My only hope is that professionals [will no longer] View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

Portrait Project

Brooke Biederman

or seeing a good movie with friends, or reading a few pages of a good book each give me a perhaps outsized happiness, because there was a time not long ago when I could not do any of these. Now, I will make that good movie and write that... View Details

05 Oct 2020
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Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends and work reasonable hours for the local government, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Indonesians by providing alternative loans and helping them to build a credit history. Business Track, 2022 Coprata Chase Moyle (MBA 2022) Sonia Grego Brian Stoner Business Track Winner Reimagining how individuals can think about human... View Details

31 May 2004
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How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

members, who wasted their time venting their frustrations about James rather than working productively on the project. Q: Diarists often wrote about negative leader behavior—as in micromanaging subordinates View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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