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02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Summit Explores the New Economy

difficult to have innovation without data—which is one reason why the health care industry in the United States is too expensive. One remedy: Make the patient the customer. who Has The Power In The Music Industry? With inexpensive... View Details

Portrait Project

Stephanie Parker

considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on... View Details

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Chile

Industry and market research Passport Click on Search on the upper left side of the main screen to get started. Locate the industry of interest and then choose a geography. Click on Run Search EMIS (Emerging Markets Information System) Create... View Details

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Shivika Bhasin Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results SECON 2023: Back in person to discuss the power of narratives for social impact Lia... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Meg's World

Award on September 18. And she landed the No. 2 spot on Fortune’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” (October 13, 2003). Whitman garnered all this attention the old-fashioned way: She earned it. During her five years at the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Lawrence J. Ellison

Ellison founded the second largest software company in the world – building the first commercially viable relational database. Oracle applications power more business-to-business and administrative systems than any other software... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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Daniela Villafuerte | MBA

Daniela Villafuerte Electrical Engineering (SB) Eliot 2021 Cohort 2 Integration of disciplines and expansion of perspective are both crucial to effectively make a positive impact on humanity. As a future electrical engineer, I believe engineering has the View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

community, listening to their hopes and dreams for our future. I believe in the power of data, and so I poured my notes from those conversations into a natural language processor to organize and analyze the themes. What rose to the... View Details

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

memorable take-a-ways came out of the session. For example, Matt Taylor, CEO of Tracksmith and Becca Freeman of LOLA shared the power of earned media for early-stage startups. Several of the panelists also addressed paid media; efforts... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

across pricing, revenue growth, strategy, and M&A (merger and acquisitions) deals. NextEra Energy, Project Manager, 30 months: Part of my work here was centered around the traditional work of a renewable developer as I worked to purchase land for solar View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years

actually giving through HBS. Whatever you’re passionate about—be it the environment, education, or the economy—HBS is likely having a direct and powerful impact on that issue through the work being done by faculty and students currently... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 2003
News

DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers

demonstrating the power of microfunding via the Internet. The concept packed such appeal that 150 requests from across the country poured in to expand Donors-Choose beyond its New York City base. Now what? The first order of business,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Ann M. Fudge

succeed,” she says. “Treating them with respect is crucial.” The recipient of numerous honors (including the HBS Alumni Achievement Award in 1998), Fudge has been named one of the “Ten Most Powerful Black Women” by Ebony magazine and has... View Details

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

The educational power of video games and simulations to teach everyone from fighter pilots to senior managers is well documented. Games, after all, are fun. Our competitive instinct kicks in, and before we know it we’ve lost an hour to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Nov 2011
News

Are Humans Cost-Effective?

Watson’s superhuman powers can send mixed messages. Technology, once welcomed for freeing people from drudgery and backbreaking labor, is so powerful and its innovations so swift and relentless that mere... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

companies, and in countries characterized by high individualism and high power distance national cultures. Private Power in Indonesia Author:L.T. Wells, Jr. Publication:Bulletin of Indonesian Economic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2012
News

Making Finance Personal

Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2015
News

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

One Harvard: The Power of Collaboration For years, centuries even, Harvard has been an institution made up of distinct (and distinctive) schools conducting research and educating students largely independent of one another. As society... View Details

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