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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
SHE builds confidence, promotes education, and creates jobs
Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA/MPA 2007) founded a business that improves the health and hygiene of millions of women. But her goal is much bigger: empowering women by fostering entrepreneurship. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) brings... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Despite this upheaval, it seemed some businesses were immune to the digital onslaught—companies whose products and services couldn't be easily turned into 1's and 0's and put online. "A television set can't be digitized. A telephone can't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
we have this web of doers. The business model is very much like the network-based mobilization that we see in the tech world. This is not a top-down organization. Everyone owns it. One of our founding... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
three to five years. "We see other business models emerging, and like everybody else we're playing around with those," answered Kroese. Horowitz said that Yahoo thinks the View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
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Lara Hodgson
and lower their risk. We’re a service business. How has all this progressed? We spent the first 16 to 18 months in product development, filing patents and trademarks, putting the connections in place. Then we put the business View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
opportunities, and business models were discussed. The next series of panels considered topics that included start-ups in Asia and the Internet and entrepreneurship in Japan. Saturday's lunchtime keynote... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
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Kenny Salas
mind." "I didn't expect to take the leap so soon in my life," Kenny says about Camino Financial. "But I think HBS is a great place to start a company, not just because of the classes you can take, but for the opportunities to interact with other... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Mike Watitwa
with technology, the world around me was shifting at a very fast pace and business models were getting disrupted. I could not think of a better opportunity to grow in these areas than a program that would... View Details
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Sophia Virani
for the homeless. Then she learned about the joint MD/MBA program at Harvard. "It brought my health care and business interests together," Sophia says. "As an investment banker, I had looked at ways to turn View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
Their work drives our educational programs, fuels Harvard Business Review, and informs HBS cases used worldwide. Our unique funding model makes this possible. Because research is funded internally, faculty... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
form of corporate social responsibility (CSR) through a sustainable business model that also generates superior financial performance. Read the paper: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=4538 An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
revenue-generation. We weigh selling to governments or selling around them. We also look at raising capital for these business models and investing in them. Scale. We ask how do private and public leaders... View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
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Nikki Skovran
require new skills, leading Nikki to business school. “Best decision I ever made.” Nikki pursued her MBA options with the same rigor she had applied to her criminal cases. Even in the application process, HBS stood out. “All the other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
change the models that people create in their minds. We are doing that in the way we write cases, the way we present role models, the way we talk more frankly about business in the context of a life rather... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Lauryn Hale
Growing up in Detroit, Lauryn Hale inherited an interest in business from her father, an accountant. That interest was reinforced through her high school participation in LEAD, an innovative University of Michigan program that introduces... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs with humility and curiosity, and lending our skills, experience, and energy to the task of improving our communities and our economy," says Singer. The team provided advice on everything from operational improvements to View Details