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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for the 2019 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award from INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) for “A Structural Analysis of Sharing Economy Leveraging Location and Image Analytics Using Deep Learning.” Shunyuan Zhang : Winner of the 2019 William W. View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

University, 1920 A leading figure in the cooperative movement, after leaving HBS, W. C. Matney became director of the Bluefield Institute (today the today the historically black college Bluefield State) Department of Business... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in the right place at the right... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

hrs Module 2 Driving Change at Scale: Moving Beyond the Firm Learn what purpose-driven firms are, the "Wheel of Change," and why businesses must act to solve large global issues, such as climate change and income inequality. Highlights Prisoner's Dilemma View Details

January 2016
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Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Healthcare Initiative, with broad community support, with cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control, and with backing from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also, we've been testing these ideas with our students: Kent in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

How to Post Your Commitment Why Hire a Summer Associate? HBS students offer exceptional talent, a record of accomplishment, demonstrated leadership potential, cooperative spirit, and a commitment to making a difference. As part of their... View Details

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

and a community savings and loans cooperative in Migori County, Kenya. At Lwala I worked in Monitoring & Evaluation, Program Design & Implementation, and Development. After two and a half years at Lwala I took a position in Player... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

sensible, potentially quite lucrative and, in a word, simple. Altruism is just a nice by-product. Looking For Drivers The phenomenon of open source has roots in a long tradition of sharing and cooperation in software development (see... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 May 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Technische Universität München and the Peter Pribilla Foundation. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Recipient of a Google Anita Borg Scholarship in 2015. Edward McFowland III : Winner of the 2015 William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award from... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Analysis" (with M. R. Vetsuypens). Josh Lerner : Received a 1990-1991 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. 1990 Josh Lerner :... View Details

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson

a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the music business. Instead, he worked as an auditor and M&A... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

cautioned us not to expect too much from a policy of transparency, saying "If the company culture operates better within the founder's vision of transparency, all well and good, be transparent. But to trust transparency alone to engender trust in management and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

developed strong bonds and community. Vugar Abdullayev (MBA 2023) explained: “I am very thankful for the diverse team from HBS and HKS for the hard work, cooperation and fun! I am also grateful for the impact investing community of... View Details

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when most of the region’s office... View Details

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

fresh milk to single-product producers, most of which are limited liability cooperatives of farmers, and most of whom outsource the maturation process to warehouse operators. Before it hits store shelves, cheese is matured for 18, 24, 30,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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