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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful... View Details
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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  • October 1996 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Cantuga Farmworkers Clinic (A)

By: James E. Austin and Catherine Overholt
The board of directors of a rural health clinic fires its executive director. The case elaborates the evolution and progress of the clinic under this director during a period of growth and a changing health care environment. Factors contributing to and questioning the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resignation and Termination; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Rank and Position; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

The School of Life

technology giants, Intel and SAP. Pandesic was designed to create a more affordable version of SAP’s enterprise resource planning software, targeted at small and midsize companies. It was founded in 1997 with high hopes—and $100 million... View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

chapter identifies how social and political institutions shaped the region's market-based economies, the origins of these institutional arrangements, and the origins and impact... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

social norms shift away from single-sex education, the school's enrollment is falling and deficits are becoming the norm. At the same time, the modern vision for girls' education requires an even greater investment in science and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Introducing the HBS Heartland Club

members who attended University of Illinois and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana and members who worked at ExxonMobil in Texas and ArcelorMittal in Indiana. Where the Heartland Club came from The idea for a student club grew... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Sendhil Mullainathan Abstract—Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, with the goal of improving productivity. Traditionally, models have assumed workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Dedication - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

explained that now the “Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration will do its utmost to guard against an illiterate ministry of business.” 17 The dedication speakers heralded the new campus as the physical embodiment of the School’s View Details
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the understanding that it shouldn't detract from coursework preparations. “If you look at the quality... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=3818d01f1b&ean=9788763002417&code=kommende The Case for Professional Boards Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract When the world's largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918 Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Noel Maurer Abstract Abstract We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

help you make a plan.” From there, HBS Professor Brian Trelstad spoke with Wendy Woods , Vice Chair of Social Impact and Climate & Sustainability at BCG , on corporate climate commitments and the challenges and successes of how large... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
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New Releases

institutional bets on them. He was an investor in other people's ideas, and the support he gave was often indispensable." Thus, they have dubbed him an "intellectual venture capitalist." The editors point out that it is no coincidence... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

century. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709057 From xiaonei to hainei: The Quest for the Social Networking Service Market in China Harvard Business School Case 808-164 Wang Xing, the founder... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1998
  • Case

CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)

By: Myra M. Hart and Jennifer Starr
Silverman and her co-founder, Don Larson, own the largest privately held injury-management and cost-containment services firm in the United States. When their $80+ million company attracts substantial interest of investment bankers and venture capitalists, the two must... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Leadership Development; Venture Capital; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment; Business or Company Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; United States
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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

policy makers, and scholars – engage in frank and meaningful dialogue with guest speakers on tough issues. What are the continuing obstacles to innovation in South Asia? How can businesses best navigate government bureaucracy in India? What is the responsibility of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

President Neil L. Rudenstine added, "He was one of Harvard's, and the world's, rare human beings, capable of guiding discussions, courses, or institutions with the kind of ingenuity that is born of deep knowledge and experience."... View Details