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  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

that resonated with investors.” The overarching theme of the bridge Mbanusi built was around strategic philanthropy, which encompassed the work he did at MDC, and his experience founding the Made In Durham Youth Network. Two of the key View Details
  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

skills events, an education series called Training the Valley, a series of sub-industry highlights on fintech, edtech, etc., a mentorship program, small group dinners and socials within the club and with... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

Keywords: by Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz

    Monique Burns Thompson

    Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

    • June 2023 (Revised October 2024)
    • Teaching Note

    Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise Teaching Note

    By: Feng Zhu
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-092. Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complimentary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides—consumers and those providing applications or services—need access... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Strategy; Customer Acquisition; Technology Platform; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Management Skills
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

    By: Pian Shu
    Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance
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    • 23 Oct 2019
    • Blog Post

    How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

    sharpen conversation skills is through practice, experimentation, feedback, reflection and more practice. “How to talk gooder in business and life” will help Elective Curriculum (EC) students hone their conversational skills—so they can... View Details
    • 21 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 21, 2006

    previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Video

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    • 15 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    High Ambition Leadership

    What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • February 2024
    • Case

    Adventures Inc: 21st Century Brand Building

    By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
    Founded in 2020, Adventures worked with celebrities in Brazil to create and launch digitally native brands. The idea was to match the celebrity’s skill in creating content and entertaining fans with Adventures’ skill in consumer packaged goods marketing and operations.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Brand; Influencer Marketing; Growth And Scaling; Capital Constraints; Brand Portfolio Strategy; CPG; Start-up; Celebrity Endorsement; Digital Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Advertising; Social Media; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Brands and Branding; Brazil
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    • 2023
    • Chapter

    Organizational Development

    By: Min Basadur, Tim Basadur and Goran Calic
    Our review of the field of Organizational Development (OD) reveals an extensive range of tools which attempt to help organizations improve performance. We believe that OD should be studied differently: As a continuous process of change-making or innovation. How this... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Management
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    • 23 May 2016
    • News

    Meet the 2016-2017 HBS Leadership Fellows

    • February 2017
    • Module Note

    Leading Global Teams

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    The New-Collar Workforce

    By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
    Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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    • April 2004 (Revised August 2004)
    • Teaching Note

    BuildingBlocks International

    BuildingBlocks International (BBI) plans to accomplish its mission to help children in developing countries succeed in school by bringing management expertise to local organizations. Two years after founding BBI, however, the team hasn't figured out exactly how to make... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Developing Countries and Economies; Sales
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    • 01 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 1

    users, and reduce the severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in... View Details
    • June 2021
    • Case

    Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
    In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details
    Keywords: Agility; Ecosystem; Innovation Ecosystems; Innovation; Crowdsourcing; XPRIZE; Open Innovation; Partnership; Government; Collaboration; Co-creation; Purpose; Impact; Social Impact; Movement; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Ambidexterity; Ambidexterity; Culture; Culture Change; Global Teams; Experimentation; Space; Space Industry; Airline Industry; Start-up; Platform Business; Platform Strategy; Platform; Digital; Robotics; Robots; Avatar; Telepresence; Innovation Lab; Mobility; COVID-19; Intrapreneurship; Public-private Partnership; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Alignment; Leadership; Leading Change; Diversity; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry; Japan
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Business Groups in Historical Perspectives

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
    Business groups-collections of legally independent firms interconnected by multiple economic and social linkages that exhibit widely diversified product portfolios-are viewed as the prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Alliances; Groups and Teams; Competitive Advantage; Great Britain
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    • 01 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

    highlighted a few of the ways they were able to apply their transferable skills and knowledge to add value at their internship employers. An engineer’s skillset Adam: BEV is a pretty technical place, which is necessary when you’re trying... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries