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17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

The pair worked with club sponsor Faye Thorek of Thorek/Scott and Partners to produce the virtual panel event. Stark, an executive coaching and leadership development consultant and founder and president of Stark Coaching, served as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 May 2019
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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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

April 2019
Case

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and George Gonzalez

In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online purchases through four interest-free... View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and... 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

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

in learning and development programs for hourly workers; investing in nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting systemic racism; making its products more accessible to underserved communities; and... View Details

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

total participation decreased 3 percent to 12,385 in fiscal 2024, the group’s innovative content continued to attract a diverse global audience. Focused Programs on leadership development and business strategy were among the key drivers... View Details

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

as a biotechnology company, Myofinity Biosciences. Those two organizations have taken two different paths. They’re not connected. The 501(c)(3), Terry’s Foundation (now Cure Rare Disease), is doing something incredibly unprecedented. What that is, is it’s trying to... View Details

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

04 Oct 2018
News

“A Shout Through Time”

developed in what we can talk. But it was really the... the really important moment of our connection. Perzyk: I corrected him and said, "Actually, I have a great-uncle. My grandmother's brother died in a plane crash 70 years ago at the... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

crises like the one that we are experiencing tend to facilitate the development and implementation of changes that break with the existing norms and power hierarchies. We all have the opportunity to participate in the collective effort to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

Competition. DFA's six-person team came together in the interdisciplinary MBA course Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

Commercializing Science and included members with medical, science, public health, and business backgrounds from HBS, MIT, and across Harvard University. The realization that DFA’s product had the power to impact the health of millions... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

develops a relationship with a director of a regional health fund who also runs a private foundation. After a natural disaster, Healthgen—at the request of the director—donated products to help during the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

consumption it’s not an accessible product for the vast majority of people who are reading the news online. Many respected news outlets don’t make it easy. Sometimes it’s a curation issue, where you’re getting a lot of volume. There can... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter and really learn some of the skills of the trade first and... View Details

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

inequality could affect this or that economic indicator, he reasoned, then it might be possible to refine the large-sample studies in productive ways-focusing only on punches aimed at the stomach, rather than all punches, in examining the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these excuses. As a result, sales... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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