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- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
on a two-lane road that all of a sudden widened to 28 lanes wide with not any lane separation for several miles, right up to the steps of the new capitol. I'd never seen anything like that before. And the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
houses are designed, built, and marketed.” A graduate of MIT, Stuntz launched Green-tech in 1998 following the acquisition of his former firm, Acorn Structures, a custom-home builder. “The new owners didn’t need two presidents,” he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
their secrets (for regulatory purposes) because it would destroy their ability to compete. So it’s very hard to figure this out. My sense is that it’ll be a rocky road for crowdfunding, and there are going to be even more challenges for... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
machine’ and transforming how people tell and experience stories; like Traveling While Black, which puts viewers in the first-person perspective of a Black American on a road trip across the country. “But looking forward, while nothing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Walmart to an African hand pump, a New York City park, and the B-17 bomber), the book explains why including the customer is an essential ingredient of success for any team, company, or organization. The Moses Virus by Jack Hyland (MBA... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights. Jim Aisner: According to an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Campus roads are strategically curved so that no extended stretch of asphalt is visible from any point on campus. Such visual shielding of the bystander's perspective helps provide "as much domestic feeling as [is] reasonable"... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
society—taken into account alongside its profits—will be a transformative step on the road to a more sustainable form of capitalism, according to Cohen. Thoughtful leaders will see this moment as a paradigm shift and an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
restaurants. “There are whole startups focused on that, and it’s a very difficult problem to solve,” Sambvani says. 3. Go wider. They could expand into entirely new markets, such as financial services, travel, or health care. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care... View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
thing I could do? How are we going to split up the roles? Which one of us will become the CEO? How are we going to split the equity among us? "Each fork in the road brings us to a bunch more cofounder dilemmas, and as you're going... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
spent his entire life building roads for the government. When I was in junior high, he used to take me to the villages on his four by four, and tell me that whatever you do in life, you should give access to those who need it the most.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
would it mean to truly live? This book inspires us to question and reimagine our most cherished myths. The New Global Road Map: Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times by Pankaj Ghemawat (PhDBE 1982) HBR... View Details