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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
per week with a projected tenure of 12 months or longer. Demonstrated commitment to HBS/HU social enterprise programming through coursework, community/club involvement and leadership such as: HBS Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum or... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
collectively, to the company’s goals. “When it comes to decision making and communication, HBS taught me that, while there is never a ‘right answer,’ effective leaders must always 1) have an opinion; 2) support this opinion with data; 3)... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
is very granular. It's longitudinal, it breaks down by student, by geography. Pretty much any way you could cut it, it has good data. And for the longest time, we've been asking state leaders to make policies, decisions, around teacher... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
They recommend a more coherent strategy that divides CSR efforts into three categories including those related to philanthropy, operational effectiveness, and shaping the firm's business model to better create shared value. Consideration is also given to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
perhaps as expected in a time of worldwide politicization and polarization. For one thing, Republicans are the only ones doing the talking—Democrats have not yet been invited to come to the table and likely won’t if Republican leaders can... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
gave the name and address of one of KOR’s founding members. “Why don’t we go?” Maj asked his friends. The building was near their dorm. “We were 20,” Maj says now, laughing—it was a bit of lark. But Ludwik Cohn opened the door. The man, then in his 70s, had been a... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to crowdsource competence by making data public and offering a reward for the best algorithm. A simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
government-to-government negotiations. As talks began, Eamer developed a game plan of sorts. He would always start discussions with the common agreements from previous meetings and then move to the contentious material—a useful way to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
financial instruments-currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America's immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
full-time in 2005, spent seven years developing a deep network of contacts, then set up CET in 2012 to offer travel services to school groups and political think tanks alike. Three years later, in 2015, Michael Laverty—Gordon’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century." Think of software platforms as ring leaders of ecosystems in which a few or many companies can participate to reach users. These core products, like Windows, for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011). Abstract Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
explore some of the many interesting developments going on in Eastern and Central Europe for my course Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy, so I contacted Vincent at the Europe Research Center to find out if they could... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
leader in technology,” he says. “Somehow, over the years, we had become the nation’s technology broker to outside companies.” The 2011 shuttering of the shuttle program—and its $600 million per launch costs—left them without a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower is headed and what makes its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
leaders to also, driving impact. We've gone through an interesting transition over the last three years. We've shifted the organization from a traditional NGO to still, a not for profit, but a partnership. We've grown the partnership... View Details