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01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital investments... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

investment banking division for Goldman Sachs. And it was kind of an interesting experience I thought I'd share quickly. We started the training program in about September of 1987, then in October of 1987 there was a big stock market... View Details

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

women in their second half of life. Multinationals like Vodafone and Santander Bank are setting a new standard by creating meaningful benefits to support menopausal employees. The rest of us should catch up without delay. About the... View Details

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse yourself in real-world, case-based service examples brought to life by experts at world-class organizations like Getaway, Tessei, Commonwealth Bank of... View Details

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

Doug McMillon, the current CEO of Walmart, Brian Moynihan, the current CEO of Bank of America, Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998), the current CEO of Landit. We've had conversations with them already about exactly what they have done, how they... View Details

22 Feb 2018
News

My First Job

Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake Olympics. And he hired me, so I got to be one of the executives on the Olympic Committee. I just had a fantastic time. David Binswanger. I am section H of 1982. My first job ever was loading tapes onto tape drives for a large View Details

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

http://hbr.org/search/113132-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-134 Transport Corporation of India (D): Business Development across Divisions No description available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113134-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-003... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

differences are greater than their similarities. They acquire capital differently—there are no investment banks to help them find investment dollars from private sources, so they must rely on the will of local voters to issue bonds.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

2017
Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details

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21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

that, donating a portion of their stimulus checks to food banks or to friends who are out of work. Some are helping others in non-financial ways, including recovered coronavirus patients donating plasma to help the sick. “During this... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

promote social equality. He pondered whether public policy could make a difference or whether the market and societal currents, responsible for these trends, were too strong for him and his government to try to contend with. Several prominent figures, including the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

multi-currency capital structure with both senior, secured bank loans and junior bonds. PCP has to decide whether to push for bankruptcy in a European court, or to push for out of court renegotiations. The case is a tool for studying the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

based at HBS, Christensen's influence and legacy extend well beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School's Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

had also been a part of the underground publishing movement and was imprisoned for eight months during martial law, and their three children—spent six years in the United States before returning to Warsaw. Maj wanted to help grow Poland’s young market economy. After a... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored not only for his pioneering work at HBS in corporate strategy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into freezing cold chambers, and rush... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details