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Erica Mitchell Archives | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details
- September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
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Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App
By: Robert F. Higgins, Penrose O'Donnell and Mehul Bhatt
Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots with prominent customers, but it is now faced... View Details
Higgins, Robert F., Penrose O'Donnell, and Mehul Bhatt. "Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App." Harvard Business School Case 813-060, September 2012. (Revised December 2012.)
- 09 May 2022
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Green House
really happening in large-scale multifamily buildings, particularly in low-income residences,” Harper observes. “At 25 units or more, you have real economies of scale.” View Details
- 11 May 2015
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A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
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You Can’t Take It with You
Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
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How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
A recent issue of the Harbus offers a quick glimpse of what a few MBAs have been up to over the past three months. Internships based in the United States (at Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, and the U.S. Treasury Department, among... View Details
Henry J. Kaiser
Kaiser successfully built a highly diversified construction business consisting of 82 companies. His company handled millions of dollars of highway and bridge construction as well as several dams (e.g. Hoover Dam), levees and pipelines in... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas
foundations, but it also relies heavily on the generosity of individual donors, who include section mate Bill Ackman (MBA 1992) whom Callahan describes as “a brilliant, insightful person who cares about achieving extraordinary social outcomes, through effective View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
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New Orleans Resonance
annual improvements of between 11 and 39 percent, earning the school widespread acclaim. London’s Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States, and one... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
faculty-led immersions and the student-organized treks familiar to many HBS alums. “Part of the experience is asking students to go out and find a business problem or opportunity, which is something you’ll have to do over and over as a... View Details
- July 2021
- Teaching Plan
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-065. View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
surrounding growth of a nonprofit institution and the United Kingdom's socialized health care system. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
paths. Clif Darden worked in economic development in the United States and Tanzania before returning to HBS to earn his DBA in 1982. His career in academia culminated in a tenured professorship in organizational theory and management at... View Details
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Maurice Taylor
me to obtain the right skills for addressing the real issues I’m interested in. Business means the opportunity for making a broad impact. But law sets the rules of the game. What are the policies behind View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
a penchant for business and served as vice president and a board member of Harvard Student Agencies, a $2 million, student-run company. “I’ve always been interested in how enterprises are organized,” says Akinola, who is open, friendly,... View Details
James J. Ling
Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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International Students | MBA
International Students Student Loans 101 We expect that most students will take out a loan to fund their MBA, in combination with need-based Harvard Business School (HBS) Scholarships, fellowship awards, external scholarships, and... View Details
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Maria Brewer
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a... View Details
- March 2025
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Intuition Robotics: An AI Companion for Older Adults (B)
By: Amit Goldenberg, Elie Ofek and Orna Dan
Two years after Intuition Robotics opted to pursue a business-to-government contract with the New York State Office of the Aging, and put direct-to-consumer efforts on the back burner, it was at a crossroads. The partnership had been successful, and the company had... View Details