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06 Oct 2023
News

New Faculty Profiles: Louis E. Caldera

01 Sep 2020
News

Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe The HBS Alumni Board welcomes 22 new members for 2020–21 this fall. The complete roster is here. The Board is a representative group of 81... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Oct 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Karim R. Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Kohli Davé, Rasim Alam, and Meena Hewett

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

article was originally published by the HBS Newsroom. Read more about some of the New Venture Competition Business Track, Social Enterprise Track, and Alumni Track finalist... View Details

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

infrastructure and capacity for one to build on. To a significant degree, the new leader gets to start fresh. But both require that the new leader start making tough calls early. Realignments and sustaining... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

22 Nov 2023
News

New Faculty Profiles: Max J. Miller

14 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture

insulted and angry. But Twitter hasn’t backed down from the idea and has even promoted Davis. Employee dissatisfaction, the company said, is sometimes the cost of shaking things up. "Culture gets changed by doing real work in line with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

03 Jul 2015
Blog Post

What is HBS Bridges?

new beginnings and new adventures. But whereas at the start of my HBS experience I had looked around at a room full of strangers, now I looked around and saw countless... View Details

Video

WAVE - 2013 HBS New Venture Competition Student Social Enterprise Track Runner Up

26 Jun 2017
Video

Faculty Discuss New MS/MBA Joint Degree Program

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

showed that participants were turned off by overhead. The higher the level of overhead associated with a donation to charity: water, the lower the percentage of participants who chose to donate to it. When they learned that donations to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

October 2019
Teaching Note

New Urban Mechanics

By: Mitchell Weiss and Matthew Piltch

Teaching Note for HBS No. 315-075. View Details

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02 Nov 2022

Military Student Panel followed by Breakout Rooms by Branch of Service

As part of HBS Military Virtual Visit, join a panel of current HBS students from the Military to hear how they have advanced their skills to enter a variety of industries and even to start their own... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Dec 2023
News

New Faculty Profiles: Philippe van der Beck

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
Case

Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

Gary Van Spronsen, president of Miller SQA, has been asked to leave the thriving subsidiary he helped to reinvent to join Herman Miller's corporate initiative on innovation. Miller SQA has pioneered processes new to the Herman Miller organization, such as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizations; Values and Beliefs; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry