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- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
Mexico. salaUno had grown from doing 75 cataract surgeries in its first month of operation to a high of 388 surgeries 21 months later. This case explores the challenges in scaling up a healthcare venture within a developing country.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards are effective, and even on flawed... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
its own right. But it was also crucial for the resumption of European integration in the 1970s. Leadership: The Key to Effective Boards Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Chap. 1 in Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
question remains. What can organizations and team leaders do to increase fulfillment of each of the four drives? The graphic below displays the four-drive ecosystem. The four-drive ecosystem Acquire/Achieve On the organizational level... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
several Silicon Valley firms as well as a former congressman from the area, spoke about how new concepts of entrepreneurship, leadership, and partnership are emerging from the new business models of the information revolution. "Entrepreneurs are View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
question remains. What can organizations and team leaders do to increase fulfillment of each of the four drives? The graphic below displays the four-drive ecosystem. The four-drive ecosystem Acquire/Achieve On the organizational level... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book and put them in a bar. Let them... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
they care and that they’re looking for answers too. “So is it like, our age subgroup that has, like, the majority of overdose problems?” one girl asks tentatively. No, says Langford—but many start using as teens. They go to rehab and then relapse, View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
and evolve in coming years. This policy revises and clarifies the School’s previous policy on faculty involvement in student ventures and extends it to cover student involvement in faculty ventures. Guiding Principles Mission: The HBS mission is to educate View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
used for. So I decided to throw a summit on Necker Island and got a bunch of people together so they could communicate in person. And I divided up a bunch of really cool developers and thought leaders into... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
will be missed. Bob Rosenberg (MBA 1963) As one the few HBS students coming out of the department store business, I was drawn to Walt for his knowledge, common sense approach to business issues, and wonderful sense of humor. He was E-section’s marketing professor and a... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-050.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone this week. PublicationsTrue North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Author:William W. George Publication:San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007 Abstract Based on research and first-person... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
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
- 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
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
who feared increasing Native organization and a possible uprising. This was especially so, given the formation of the Northwestern Confederacy (aka the United Indian Confederacy), which began in 1783 and ended briefly in 1795, before Shawnee View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details