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01 Jun 2006
News

Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
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Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details

Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas

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February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

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18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

of scope for managerial diversion, having the state enforce its claim can be a wonderful thing for shareholders. Similarly, tax avoidance in the United States is only valued... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

for jobs if government doesn’t invest in the forthcoming change, change will be painfully slow if at all.” Should we be addressing the next jobs crisis now? What do you think? Original Column It’s clear that the focus of the new United... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

take their organizations beyond that point in terms of size? Phil Clark posed the question, "Is there a 'right size' for a company?" If so, how do we know? How many companies that you can think of are right-sized? What do you think? Original Article... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

more than a material exchange in labor relations). Third, we study survey data for the 1990s on the beliefs of Peronist and non-Peronist voters in Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the United States. While income and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

apply across the region. Let me just highlight a handful of those: Demand for management and management education is growing rapidly. Management (and business) is seen as a major force for change, growth, and prosperity. All of these areas look to the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

Edmondson further clarifies her argument around psychological safety by stating it is: not about being nice not a personality factor not just another word for trust not about lowering performance standards Black Women & Mental Health In... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

(debt and equity) to $104.5 million. “We’ve demonstrated substantial success both in the United States and Europe,” observes Pelet. “Now we need to double down and expand further in those markets.” As Aero... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). The Prince wanted Genta to position Monaco as the world’s most digital state—a tall order given that, at the time, a United Nations... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

continent with about one billion people and over 50 countries with radically different natural resources, cultures, and histories. Some countries will likely remain poor but a number are poised to grow dynamically. The growth ‘revolutions’ in Western Europe and the... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin GinsburghHarvard Business School Case 210-024 A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

Build a Better a Better World (Or at Least a Better Organization)." Edmondson summarized a line of research in which she and colleagues studied communication within several neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

that marijuana was a popular treatment in the nineteenth century, and the drug was listed in the Dispensatory of the United States by the 1850s. The paper looks at how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics managed... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

year and now heard on more than two hundred public radio stations across the United States, is a weekly one-hour program that showcases virtuoso performances by precollege musicians. “From the Top is the most popular classical music... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2015
News

Exploring Global Business Practices

development, teaching, and the dissemination of ideas that enhance global understanding. HBS is committed to extending the School’s intellectual impact far beyond its campus. With more than a third of MBA students and two-thirds of Executive Education participants... View Details

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

United States required a much stronger domestic intelligence service, and Mueller believed that that service should reside within the FBI. Critics, however, called for the Bureau to narrow its scope, focus... View Details