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06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) sits in front of a photo mural on the walls of the Mercy Corps offices in Washington, DC After a full-on morning of Zoom sessions from her home office in Potomac, Maryland, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002)... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

watched the venture capital world change, slowly. When she got her start in the sector at the early stage health care fund Cardinal Partners in 1998, she was often the only woman and the only Black person in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

for example, filters down to retailers or health care providers in any useful or timely way. There is some forward movement, though. Lefkowitz notes that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis

By: Kristin Mugford, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Susan Pinckney

How to get to a fair outcome for claimants in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy given its significant role in the U.S. opioid crisis. View Details

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01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

crucial decision, he saw it through, even when virtually everything around him seemed stacked against such a commitment. This adherence was not the result of stubbornness or self-righteousness. Rather, it came from the care that Lincoln... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

School Case 217-013 Nirvana Vihar Rehabilitation Homes Kumar Builders (KUL) was finally nearing completion on the four luxury condominium towers that comprised the first phase of its bold vision for the redevelopment of more than 70 acres... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

test,” which would reveal the longer-term health of the country’s largest banks. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 919-013 Fishbowl Fishbowl is a social media app that allows... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

illustrating my points with examples from companies including Home Depot, McDonald's, Merck, and Pfizer. There is no magic bullet that can target the pitfalls of your business strategy, but you must engage in ongoing, face-to-face... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

country has a First World infrastructure - financial institutions, health care, and transportation, for instance - and it is rich in natural resources." South Africa is indeed the linchpin of the region, but it also faces unique... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

told you at the start of your career? NAINA LAL KIDWAI Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982), country head, HSBC India, director, HSBC Asia-Pacific, New Delhi, India Keep your worst critic close to you. If you care to listen, you will at least be... View Details

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents hired by a public View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2025
News

Challenge Accepted

you do in the mountains, when every step can be very dangerous, can be fatal. So you have to be very careful where you put your foot every time. JH: Over the course of a multifaceted career, Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967) has held leadership... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Robin Ely Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

industries - aerospace, banking, communications, entertainment, manufacturing, railroads, retailing, and health care - opting to join forces with their former competitors? Is this a repeat of the Eighties or... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and the environment. At the moment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

sinking fishing ship that had called out for help. Our ship provided food and water to fishermen who had been stranded for days and made sure that they could get back to their homes and families. What I will remember most were the moments... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

1,000 women whose marriages had ended. I realized that my wife did the right thing by leaving me. I drank too much and spent too much time away from home on business and political activities. (I ran for mayor of Phoenix and was on every... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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