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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble – and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details
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Kam Phillips-Sadler
their neighborhoods.” What began as a once-a-week school visit evolved into a much more ambitious nonprofit, Dream Outside the Box, dedicated to introducing school children to a broad range of career possibilities. Now in its tenth year, the nonprofit covers colleges... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
Argentina and Chile? These leaders had an inside-looking-out view during this much of this time—what do we learn from them? A: These interviews supplied both contextual and personal information simply not available elsewhere. Unlike the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
be driven as much by markets as by science.” Experts say that, in the United States alone, those markets could offer therapies for tens of millions of people who are suffering from conditions such as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
in human history," while Jose Guerra (AMP:ISMP 155) reported from Mexico that the rest of the world sees the United States "as a synonym for freedom and safety" and praised the country's "unity, faith,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
existing emerging market firms like Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food chain that has entered the United States successfully in California. “This is the point of international trade and globalization — that it... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
students, relocated persons, immigrants, or refugees—will find useful advice for landing a job in the United States this book. Readers will learn the different stages of the search process and how to prepare... View Details
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
and secondary education in the United States? How do you bring innovation into schools? How do you help schools get better results out of reading programs, out of other things? “The premise of Collaborating Minds is that experts from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
well-being of society’s less fortunate members. He told his audience that they were all winners in the “ovarian lottery,” that by accident of birth, they had entered and grown up in the world with enormous advantages over the planet’s six billion other inhabitants. As... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart (Financial Times Prentice Hall) Every day, women in the United States launch more than 450 new businesses. They employ more people than the Fortune 500 and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
constructively replicate and extend these findings with a supplemental analysis of a second sample, the full population of new nonprofit organizations founded during a two-year period in the United States (n... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Beijing—simply by dropping a pin onto a map. Because the company’s satellites fly over the same sites multiple times a day, customers can monitor evolving situations over time, such as tracking tug boats as they haul barges laden with cargo down a river in the View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
The media and entertainment business can be a bit of a roller-coaster ride — particularly in today’s climate of tight margins and consolidation. But that state of flux creates opportunity, agreed panelists at the Women’s Student... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
told Lo. “Because if the unit economics of this thing turn out to be even remotely true, it’s the future of food.” Lo’s interest was piqued. She knew almost nothing about farming and had always just trusted that the View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
transition to civilian life, and it was an experience he describes as “like nothing I’d ever encountered.” “The emphasis on being able to stand on your feet and state your convictions and persuade others—that was a big teaching moment for... View Details