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June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall system," one that as Barry... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

intersection Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) was focused on when she founded S’well, a reusable water bottle company that creates products that are both beautiful and eco-friendly and infuse innovation with inspiration. The mission had a strong... View Details

Keywords: Retail

January 2025
Case

Shifting Winds: DEI in Corporate America

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and David Lane

In the 2020s, intense and conflicting social and political pressures challenged organizational leaders around the world. Prominent among these were powerful competing views on workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) in the United States. Public... View Details

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02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

framework for the field in their book A Concept of Agribusiness. That seminal work traces a complex value-added chain that begins with the farmer's purchase of seed and livestock and ends with a product fit for the consumer's table.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

agricultural sector, which is respectful of the structural and cultural norms that still persist today. At the core of WayCool's strategy lies a deep understanding of the challenges plaguing Indian farmers – from fragmented supply chains to View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

example, the firm we visited was build ing roads and schools, because it’s in their interest to be able to get their products to market and have a qualified workforce,” he says. photo by Natalie Keyssar photo by Natalie Keyssar Shih was... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

School’s faculty the autonomy to pursue answers to the business research questions that interest them most. Faculty members stay close to practice, interacting with business leaders and managers in the field to research the world’s most significant opportunities and... View Details

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

we see more entrepreneurship, more innovation, outside of technological innovation in the system? What's stamping down on that? A: This iron triangle, it kills you. So first of all, if we want to start a health delivery innovation, we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

and HBS alumni, Westphal came across two organizations that fit what he was looking for and he decided to move forward with two summer internships. The first was a seven-week internship with a healthcare technology startup, Cuidas,... View Details

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

reputations on this issue are increasingly on the minds of the branded companies’ own employees—and on job candidates. Kost: I wonder if people think about the human and environmental toll of “fast fashion,” the mass production of trendy... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

company's superior productivity and market share gain in Brazil's cosmetics, fragrances, and toiletries (CF&T) industry. By 2009, Natura's direct sales business model generated income for over 1 million people in Brazil and Latin... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business

really is no business of stem cells yet. There’s research, and money going into research, but to date there are no products being sold on the open market. It’s a fledgling business. The other major difference has to do with the regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

process of deep restructuring. Traditionally, indexing and active investment were mixed together in products such as mutual funds. The massive growth of cost-efficient indexing, derivative products and View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Dec 2018
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something else—my passion’s in neuroscience and brain theory,” he told her. “The objective was—as soon as he could—to get back to working on the brain, and I had to buy into that to be his CEO,” says Dubinsky. Numenta is the fulfillment of that promise. The company’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

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