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Connecticut—and developing an impact model for transforming communities Patch Work How John Jameson (MBA 1991) and Winning Connections harnessed the enduring political power of a phone call Complete Table of Contents December 2024 Back at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
those one-out-of-ten firms grow into successful, sustained enterprises? Assistant professor Mukti Khaire believes that small companies can grow by developing intangible social resources such as legitimacy, status, and reputation. In an... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
unable to keep up with demand, and product shortages loom. Inflation is rising. Racial injustice and economic inequality persist. Businesses are adapting to the new dynamic of a remote workforce. HBS faculty members researched these and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
your book, examining the experiences of more than 4,000 women across four races and generations, what did the data conclude around the way forward? Jacqui: Our findings seem to anticipate many of the most positive developments in a year... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
sense of purpose could use that to guide innovation. One of the exciting parts of SuperCorp and the rise of this company model is that it's actually a way to develop products and services faster, to get more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
chairman and CEO Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants’ board of directors, as well as with San Francisco city development official Ron Blatman, a longtime friend. When the deal with the Florida investors was announced — but, critically,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
should be better seen as the product of a specific historical era and a particular place, essentially the United States. The chapter on family firms shows that they could be as successful or more so than the managerial firms that Chandler... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Reza Satchu Shai Bernstein Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Founder Mindset Reza Satchu Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Global Entrepreneurship (also listed under Finance) Paul Gompers Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s... View Details
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Commencement 2019 Address | About
to drive improvements in education, to invest in reskilling the workforce, to foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, and to develop innovative ways to combat climate change. We are relying on you to restore society’s trust in... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
the shares of agencies and receipts they represent. Second, concentration levels in 1997 and 2002 varied across the nine sectors comprising the A&MS industry, but all were within the range generally considered as indicative of a competitive industry. Third, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
deliver cultural value. They compete for what I call "culture share." The man-of-action hero is back and more than ever he is found in business rather than politics or fiction.— Douglas B. Holt In my forthcoming book (Culture Share; HBS Press), I View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
in a kind of arms race to change that homogeneity within the companies, to better match the customer base, says HBS professor Frances Frei. That’s partly out of financial necessity. More diverse teams tend to produce products that appeal... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
could have on families who didn't have a lot of resources at their disposal," says Elana Silver, now a talent development consultant at State Street, a Boston-based financial services company. "For most of my classmates, and for... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
porous as possible.—Karim R. Lakhani The result has been a product that even academics regularly consult. In late 2005, the scientific journal Nature conducted a study comparing 42 science articles in Wikipedia with the online version of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
with additional production by PRX Productions, and was edited by Craig McDonald. It was developed in collaboration with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. It is available wherever you get your... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
pressed pleats? Krasnow worked at General Foods for two years, developing fast-food products for the home kitchen. Then he joined the Jewel Companies, a food retailer, first bagging groceries at a Star... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg