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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed to find a performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
SAS/CONNECT - Research Computing Services
cluster, it is most convenient to use a .scr script to start a link. The script is a file on the local system containing special SAS statements that control the connection. This script is called 'sasconnect.scr' in SAS version 9.3, and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
respectively, have revolutionized the relationship between the individual and computer technology. Once the exclusive domain of academia and research facilities, computers can now be found in every area of business, government, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
work together to create all aspects of the urban environment. Also necessary are new systems and processes for helping cities operate efficiently and effectively, including the use of new information and communication technologies already... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
everywhere, and the coming of the Internet. In the third, capital markets freed themselves up, shedding inhibitions against hostile takeovers, establishing a genuine market for the control of companies. The fourth horseman usually goes by the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Evolution as a System of Governance, due for publication November 2009. The purpose of this monograph is to put forth an original concept of capitalism as a system of governance, including a theory of how it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
phrase "tragedy of the commons" to describe a system in which people acting rationally and in their own self-interest destroy the very resources they all share for their livelihood. His original example was of colonial farmers.... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Founders Forum The HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track or President’s Innovation Challenge HBS Elective Curriculum courses: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change, Public Entrepreneurship, or Transforming Education... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
several MIT professors, I cofounded Ceramics Process Systems Corporation, a technology company where I served as chairman and president until I earned my DBA and joined the HBS faculty in 1992. It was really my time with that company that... View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
Competition and plans to expand to other African nations. Karan Khimji: Eliminating carbon dioxide from the air Karan Khimji felt compelled to play his part in mitigating climate change after seeing the effects first-hand in Oman. Together with a co-founder, he created... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
at Harvard designed to foster student startups. In 2021, the company was a finalist in the HBS New Venture Competition’s social enterprise track and participated in the Harvard i-lab’s Venture Program, where it was named a semifinalist in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) investment banking and securities business in India. She was selected as one of 2002’s fifteen emerging “Global Influentials” by Time magazine; in 2000, Fortune magazine named her the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based cognitive-computing View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
correct the underlying weaknesses. When it comes to corporate governance, for too long we have relied on the first approach. It's time to take a deeper look, see where the stressors in the system lie, and commit to structural reforms. In... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
up anywhere. For example, a female tech genius CEO in a promising startup privately railed against a member of her investor-dominated all-male board of directors. “He calls me ‘sweetie,’” she said. Every time she heard it, she cringed, and felt his casual View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
with the new brand Clove Dental. The nascent chain took its name from a spice whose analgesic properties have made it a traditional Indian folk remedy for a toothache. The growth plan relied on clustering, requiring at least 15 locations... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross