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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

needs—everybody benefits. Ben Roth: Another stream of work is thinking about new kinds of credit products Fondo could offer and evaluating both the new View Details

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Nathalie du Preez

career? I grew up in South Africa, was educated in the U.S., and have also lived and worked in the U.K., France and India. After HBS I was looking for a career that could provide similar international opportunities. In September 2010, I started working at... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

adoption of some cost-reducing, consumer-facing, and life-saving technology innovations. Herzlinger—dubbed the “godmother of consumer-driven health care”—has helped to shepherd countless new health care... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

consistently factored into service design. Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and PerformanceThis study of the economic performance of nontech firms adopting new digital technologies finds a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and View Details

17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist

NGOs, on the ground. In addition, the company is releasing a new app, called Plus, that will increase customer engagement by tracking everything from production to distribution of the View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details

26 Sep 2024
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If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

Silicon Valley startups have adopted the “fail fast” approach of releasing innovative products quickly rather than waiting for perfection. Badaracco disagrees: “It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake, with... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch

The bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs is that a huge majority of startups will never succeed—as many as three out of four will fail, according to some estimates. The reason is not because they can’t build the View Details

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Engineering Meets Advocacy: Driving Innovation in Women’s Health - Blog: Health Supplement

used LEAN and Scrum frameworks that are common in manufacturing and product development. These are methodologies that prioritize breaking large, complex challenges into smaller, prioritized tasks. That kind of structured approach is... View Details

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

and jerk of your carry-on up to the overhead. An inelegant flop into the middle seat completes the journey—until the passenger in front shoves her seat back, removing your kneecaps. But new research shows that—in addition to these... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

01 Dec 2017
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Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

How should employers and workers adapt to the new demands in today’s technologically driven workforce? Two recent reports by HBS professor Joseph Fuller examine innovative paths to training and building talent pipelines. The first report... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

percent or higher; one-third of them described their success as certain. If these entrepreneurs adopted the outsider lens, as Kahneman and Lovallo suggest, they easily would find out that the five-year survival rate for View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising

distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and... View Details

24 Aug 2021
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Having a Moment

offering products that use ingredients such as Ashwagandha and Tulsi that Chottani saw her mother use in Ayurvedic recipes. “It’s so interesting to see people returning to their roots,” she says. “As the world gets more globalized, we’re... View Details

Keywords: mindfulness; entrepreneurship; wellness; food and beverage; meditation; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

It wasn’t necessary to understand the technology that powered the company’s washing machines, turbines, or jet engines. “But executives now need to understand the technologies behind their products and think about their implications on... View Details