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  • November 2013
  • Case

Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Real Estate; Fund Raising; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • March 2012
  • Article

Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

By: David A. Moss
In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 21 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

business and government created an incredible opportunity to use corporate structures as a vehicle to facilitate positive social impact. Read More>>> CELEBRATING ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH AT HBS May is... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

had recently invested. The case offers opportunities to explore the nature of entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia, the business importance of relationships between overseas Chinese and mainland China, and the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. More broadly, it... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage
  • January 23, 2020
  • Article

Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism: Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

By: Rawi Abdelal and Aurélie Bros
Sanctions have become the dominant tool of statecraft in the United States and other Western states, especially the European Union, since the end of the Cold War. But the systematic use of this instrument may produce unintended and somewhat paradoxical geopolitical... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitics; Economic Sanctions; International Relations; United States; Russia; Iran; Europe
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    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

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    Mid-US - Global

    effective transit solutions is not only a means to physical mobility, but class mobility as well." Drawing from his varied experiences at Fiat Chrysler and May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle company, Hurd will focus on fostering... View Details
    • July–September 2020
    • Article

    Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation

    By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
    Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
    Keywords: Contest; Innovation; Employee Engagement; Organizational Learning; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Learning; Employees; Perception; Health Care and Treatment
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    • 25 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up About Internal Supply Chain Problems

    Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    In Harmony

    control was the norm. “I was the envy of my classmates because I had Spam and egg in my lunchbox sandwich,” he says. “Those were things you just couldn’t come by.” A literal taste of what the United States could offer came when Kim’s mother took him by bus (“most of... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

    Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson joins William Kerr to discuss workplace trends, skills, credentials, diversity, internal mobility, social capital, and change management. Volvo Cars Retools Its Talent Strategy for an EV Future The shift to electric View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 07 Mar 2023
    • HBS Case

    ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

    images. In 2017, Gebru took this research a step further. She used AI to not only identify vehicle makes in Google Street View images, but connect them to demographic, crime, and voting data. For example, more Buicks meant more Black... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
    • 10 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

    regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details
    Keywords: by April White
    • 26 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

    into engineering in the first place. While taking a technology and engineering class at her Massachusetts high school, she worked on a search-and-rescue vehicle that could help divers search for people who’d fallen into frozen lakes. Her... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

    Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    attracting new business from corporate and retail customers. The merger was therefore also viewed as a vehicle for increasing top-line revenue growth. Internal cost cutting alone would not have enabled either bank to achieve this second... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • 24 Apr 2017
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

    building quality vehicles worldwide. Paul Polman When Polman became Unilever’s CEO in early 2009, he immediately began transforming the company, declaring bold goals to double revenues and generate 70 percent from emerging markets. He... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
    • February 2013 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers

    By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred

    This case illustrates the importance of choosing a primary customer as the basis for organization design. Cross Country Group managers adjusted resource allocation, organization design and performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Gap; Entrepreneurship; Auto Industry; Insurance; Performance Management; Performance Measurement; Performance Measures; Performance Pressure; Decisions; Family Business; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Customer Focus and Relationships; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

    W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

    vehicles and personal watercraft. Next spring, Polaris will add "Victory" motorcycles to its product line. Polaris has also earned a reputation as a solid corporate citizen; last spring, for example, it provided utility View Details
    Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing