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  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

The answer is in the sheer number of registered M-PESA customers,some nine million as of January 2010. More than $600 billion has been transferred through the service, which has garnered revenues of about $100 million—and would have View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

Another benefit of being a joint degree student is the flexibility to complete two summer internships in different fields during the 3-year program. Last year, I interned at a climate VC fund called KawiSafi Ventures in Nairobi, Kenya.... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About

football, and worked part time in a local saw mill. After graduating from high school, McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, earning a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1957. McArthur was a star athlete in college. He... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification, workplaces need to demonstrate that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

for hours; I knew all the rosters, trades, and coaches. My brothers and uncle called me, 'The Walking ESPN'." When Melcolm attended high school, "I realized I wasn't going to make it as a player. But I discovered there was a... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

efficiency on a temporary team. What they call a team scaffold is fixed while individual team members flow through the structure. “The big 'aha' was how very little structure this is” The paper, published in the March-April 2015 edition... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

skills events, an education series called Training the Valley, a series of sub-industry highlights on fintech, edtech, etc., a mentorship program, small group dinners and socials within the club and with other tech clubs across schools... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business

superlative for “Most Cold-Called” after our first semester.) More importantly, HBS also helped me expand my own knowledge of the sector. One highlight was participating in an optional Short Intensive Program called Moving Beyond DTC, led... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

players tend to be the same race.” The data does show that those preferences generally go away after three years, as a coach has repeated contact with a player. That effect, however, only applies to that particular player, and not to other players of that race in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
  • 20 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

which has been the focus of her research during her yearlong study at HBS. She’ll present some of her findings at a June 29 workshop called “Capitalism and the Senses,” which “brings together scholars from various disciplines, including... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

back to your community? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Better, Not Perfect: Preface By Max Bazerman In 1993, when I was on the faculty of Northwestern University, I gave a talk at a conference on behavioral... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

to have money of her own for a down payment on her EcoTech Visions building. One man, she says in the case, assumed that she must have earned her money as an adult entertainer. Another dismissed her because he didn’t understand the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

man at a welding station. "How's your daughter?" he calls to Jane as she takes a break from her sewing machine. Bullard knows most of the names of the 375 people employed by E.D. Bullard, the privately-held safety equipment company... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use "Morbidity and Mortality"... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
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