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Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
Macomber . By John D. Macomber on October 24, 2024 . Entrepreneurship Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech Featuring Karen Mills . Published November 4, 2024 . Negotiation and Decision Making Latino Voters Have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
worth supporting.” Lal hopes that mobile money services use this information as a road map as they plot future rollouts. “It’s not just that these services—which could connect up to 2 billion unbanked people into a national system—can... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
long road trips during the season, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, summa cum laude, from Hofstra University in 1998. “It took fourteen years,” he says with a smile, “but I stuck with it.” During the early 1990s,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
Knowing that not every American who has a dream to start a business can come to Harvard Business School, Casey Gerald (MBA 2014) decided to bring HBS to them. He and three classmates logged 8,000 miles in two cars during an eight-week View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
right now is going to determine how hundreds of millions of people will live—their resource footprint and their economic prospects—for hundreds of years to come. Here's my infrastructure finance advice: Projects must be additive. Don't fund a View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
buses can travel in dedicated high-speed lanes, making the trip much quicker than driving when the roads are congested. The system is not just relegating those who can’t afford cars to buses. More significantly, this is an all-electric... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Cable Gal
winner of the "Woman to Watch Award" as selected by the trade group Women in Cable & Communications. To spend more time being a mom than a road warrior, in 2000 McCollough took a job as vice president and general manager of Cox... View Details
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
road half the time, grew in number as the size of the average American household declined. The new economy has made it even easier for consumers to get rid of their stuff. These huge houses had to be filled with more stuff, good news for... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
developed alongside the infrastructure. The catch is that almost all of that happened in environments that were already above average in terms of the financial conditions,” Kerr says. Martha Lagace: How did you come to study roads and... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Final presentations and final farewells
our internships and to provide honest feedback and suggestions. Sephora, and luxury goods in general are not areas where we will see the demand for MBAs in droves, nor is there necessarily that need. However, other MBAs (especially HBS alum!) have paved a solid View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
hundreds of hours reading industry reports will never compare to the wealth of knowledge the people working in that industry have. This is an important concept to grasp early: becoming the "consulting expert" doesn’t mean becoming an actual expert. Going down... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
generations.” You will notice that “unimpaired” and “enjoyment” could easily come into conflict. For example, building roads or bathrooms could help facilitate recreation but could impair the park’s natural resources. In such example,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
directive from executives and a road map for achieving it, employees feel confident that their specific actions will be recognized and rewarded. It’s this bridge that middle managers create—translating a top-level mandate into everyday... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
Back to the Future
on an automated mail-flow system for the postal service when he started thinking about a people-moving system based on cars that could drive over roads but also attach to computer-controlled track networks. A version of his idea was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
reasons for optimism, noting that with economic pragmatism and restructuring, their well-educated populations and strong infrastructures would be assets on the road to recovery. "There will be painful adjustments for many countries," he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 Oct 2018
- News
A Chance to Lead
Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks about using her position as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
face the world with a Harvard MBA and ‘go for it,’ there’s something wrong”). NEWLY MINTED HBS GRADUATES check out their sheepskins and whoop it up. The day before, GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA '82) primed them for the road ahead with a call... View Details