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- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse says, “I can’t tell you how rewarding it is to take a bunch of kids from Harlem to their first Knicks or Yankees game and watch their faces light up. For me, my job isn’t about charity. It’s about bringing to the world the great View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
information while packaging that information for vendors who need it. "A sea change is upon us," say the authors. "Those managers who ignore the potential may find themselves managing without access to customer information." A byproduct... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
Samuel Sachs
Sachs, together with his friend Philip Lehman of Lehman Brothers, was one of the first to realize the potential of issuing stock as a way for new companies to raise funds. Together the two banks underwrote securities offerings for such... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
deeper understanding of the potential for health-care technology. “Some people said I should just go right into business. But I thought I could combine education and entrepreneurship together,” Shana says. “An MBA would be a low-risk... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential pressure points that could explode... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Blog Post
Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust
urgent challenges. In March, community trust would prove critical. While taking a deep dive into the potential for tax policy to incentivize housing development, “COVID-19 really hit,” Patel says. Virtually overnight, Patel’s housing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
make AI into a potentially exciting new technology.” “I think as a small company, I’m coming to the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once,” says Dubinsky. In recent years, Numenta’s business model has... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
web-based service or app that once might have cost millions to launch can see the light of day for a little over $100,000. Because of that, an influx of new investors through crowdfunding could potentially allow innovative startups to put... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
to cooperate with the physicians in the future. Thus, moral gray zones enable both managers and workers to perform their roles. Q: Gray zones might be detrimental to organizational health, even subversive. When employees do things behind the scenes, an organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
efforts with the potential to bridge gaps in the curriculum. The goal is to connect student learning experiences with a more intentional and scaffolded progression of learning throughout a student's school experience and beyond.” Climate... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
hundreds of millions of dollars. It also helped create viral marketing, which lets users help suppliers sell the product. Potential for commercial success once again triumphed over social station. Openness to outsiders also benefits major... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
women throughout Africa and, indeed, around the world, given the low-cost nature of the model and its potential for scaling up in the future. That is a primary reason McGinn and her colleagues have already made their curriculum available... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
entrepreneurs are innovating products to attract the emerging middle class. Such innovations could potentially benefit consumers living in mature markets. How Important Are Relations With The Host Country? HBS Cases: Looking Behind... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
their reputation and brand," says Rangan. CSR should be treated as a business discipline and practiced with the same professionalism and rigor as other aspects of a firm's strategy. "For example, many of the programs that come under the umbrella of 'climate... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
tendency of risk-averse corporate audit committees to engage the biggest accounting firms insure that the oligopoly will become even stronger? Will it require the relaxation of guidelines regarding potential conflicts of interest among... View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
searchable way to access them. Leboyer could have joined a havruta, the rabbinical version of a study group, to help him navigate the corpus, but as managing director of the Venture Lab for Software and AI at the Technical University of Munich, he had a more... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
tool to drive capital to start-ups tackling climate change, there are potential drawbacks and the need for other solutions and capital providers, as longer-term climate projects may not be complete by the time VCs need to return capital... View Details
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Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the organization, she doesn't “see a reason to leave any time soon. Boston Ballet is a complex and fascinating organization, there’s still plenty to learn.” And her role provides a practical ramp to her potential future. “It’s a great... View Details
- Web
Propose an Independent Project | MBA
expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. If you are concerned about issues of confidentiality, you may want to ask your student team to sign a non-disclosure statement prepared by Harvard Business School. Any potential... View Details
- Web
2.1.4 Classroom Non-Attribution | MBA
viewpoints, changing their minds, and taking risks. The proliferation of social media has affected this learning environment. Because of the potential permanence and widespread dissemination of communications designed to reach a broader... View Details