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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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