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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
doing will be best position to provide insights in the future. “At the Tobin Project, we try and bring policymakers into a research project from the very beginning,” says Moss. “We ask policymakers, usually members of Congress, to help us... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
challenges in terms of moving research from the bench to the bedside. Five years after undertaking the restructuring of the discovery research organization, CEO Daniel Vasella is pleased with its progress, including many more development View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
What Does It Mean to Be Community Managed? Author:Siobhan O'Mahony Publication:Journal of Management & Governance 11, no. 2 (May 2007): 139-150 Abstract The concept of "open source" software initially referred to software View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
businesses reportedly use behavioral economics strategies to guide their decision-making. In his Immersive Field Course at HBS, called "Behavioral Insights," Luca brings students to London to partner on projects with BIT and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable and fixed costs is undertaken. Finally, these numbers are used... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
other research are you working on? A: Well, my primary focus is not on industry dynamics. The focus of my research is organizational decision-making processes. At the moment, I'm conducting a large research project in which I'm... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
this volume of essays come about? What surprised you most in the array of research and insights you were able to assemble from your colleagues? Jones: The origins of the project lay with my current research on the worldwide evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
old existing companies' opinions, they tend to project themselves," remarked Yasunobe. He tried to place the issue in the perspective of a U.S. industrial setting. "If we listened to the leading computer companies in the U.S. in... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
Cosan, a large Brazilian energy and infrastructure conglomerate, where I was working on natural gas and renewable projects before HBS. Currently, I am exploring many areas inside the climate space and mostly interested in the energy... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
changing our lives.” – Phyllis Newhouse, Heliogen board member and investor Networking is an art form that often bears fruit. A friend of a friend of Jacqueline Adams learned about her Climate Stories project with Harvard Business... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
amount of information on startups, from financial projections to customer retention metrics, to decide whether a company had a realistic pathway to hypergrowth. As an entrepreneur, my co-founders and I spent time ideating revenue models... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
evolution of academic libraries, a data and coding enthusiast, and an AI-for-libraries pioneer. Moriah Tumbleson-Shaw Senior Coordinator, Business Operations Administration & Finance Areas of Expertise: Human Resources, Communication, View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
present to their boards of directors, which were made up of two-to-four alumni. The team in Spangler 205 included Pieterjan Goedertier, Ben Samuels, Rachel Blank, Ambuj Kashyap, Jenn Volk, and Amy Shah as the student management team and Brit Dewey (MBA 1996), managing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Second, departments that have done projects as a group achieve a certain camaraderie. Third, dealing with social enterprise organizations automatically requires us to interact with and learn from people who have different backgrounds and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
women colleagues from other universities — all noted authorities on entrepreneurial growth — began a collaborative research project in 1998 to tease out the underlying reasons for the disparity in enterprise size and growth rate. Clearing... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
other leisure boats, and set amongst dramatic coastline, the project would transform the region. Coordinating the many stakeholders in a new country, Jack has to decide the best way to navigate the development risks and whether the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
maximize the gains and minimize the risks, but all three have been in short supply in Argentina, especially, for decades. Q: What role did the Business History Initiative interviews done with Latin American business leaders for the Creating Emerging Markets View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne