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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes and environmental reporting are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering microfinance loans to families in... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. 2024 Business Track Winner: Crop Diagnostix - Brandon Chi (MBA 2024), Joseph Swift,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
candidates for president—including former national team stars like Hope Solo and Eric Wynalda—making it the first contested election for the position in 20 years, a sign of how high emotions were running at the time. In a three-month... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
interested in participating in the contest can pursue one of two tracks: the “Business Track” for ventures with economic returns or the “Social Enterprise Track” for ventures that drive social change. Teams choosing to pursue the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital controls in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get to the outside world. I tried to do that by entering every... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
the prospects of video game competition as a spectator sport—“for two mind-numbing hours, contestants stared at their screens and manipulated laser guns”—but Warner Communications was elated by all the attention it received, and the View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
short scene where a real Terra Chips truck can be seen picking up potatoes—Simon says the team devised several other ways to promote its chips along with marketing the film. The premieres of the film at each of the independent film festivals were advertised on Terra... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their prospective businesses. Getting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
setting of eleven "wiki-like" programming contests, where contest submissions are open for reuse by others, each involving more than one hundred contributors and several thousand attempts to generate, over a one-week period, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Contrast that real-life vulnerability and storytelling with a two-hour, mandatory, computer-based training, say the Equitas founders, and there’s no contest in terms of efficacy. “In fact,” says Harmeling, “we’ve found that some of those... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
politicians running in "swing" areas. Incumbent politicians running in politically contested areas (where the local government had been ruled by the same party for fewer than 10 years) were more inclined to use structured loans than those... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
promoted a rule-based, "managed" globalization. This contest over the character of globalization continues today. Publisher's site: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ADBCAP.html Career Concerns and Mandated Disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely... View Details
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
advertising for special products and industries, advertising contests and awards, advertising mediums (catalogs, magazines, billboards), and art in advertising. The Trade Catalog Collection is also a helpful resource for tracing the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
businesses. The excitement surrounding the annual student Business Plan Contest also illustrates the enormous amount of interest and motivation in that field. In response to this interest, our Career Services group has been helping... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
(MultiBank), focusing on its insurance division (EurInsurance), which suffered large losses in the European insurance crisis of 2002-2003. At MultiBank, the insurance crisis opened up a field of contestability in which new control agents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne