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Mollie Breen

contest. But Girl Starter did get Mollie started in the interdisciplinary world of business. "In the show, every episode ended with a pitch," Mollie explains. "I focused mine on data and... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

by focusing Unilever’s True North on sustainability. Understanding – With their vision in hand, leaders need in-depth understanding of their organization’s capabilities and strategies to take advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

Martha? First, she's a celebrity, and celebrities are often lightning rods. Second, the fact that she is focused on the home and hearth is sort of counterculture. She has the guts and the talent and the... View Details

Research Summary

Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

By: Rebecca M. Henderson

Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

when they derive a net benefit from the work, with net benefit based on both immediate and delayed rewards. Immediate rewards include monetary compensation, as well as the opportunity to fix a bug or View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social-enterprise focused clubs and consulting organizations offer excellent opportunities for organizations to connect with HBS students and alumni who are focused on... View Details

21 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Research Design - Impact Investments

Currently, our sample focuses on impact investors and portfolio companies based in the United States, where approximately 52% of the world’s impact investors are located. [5] Future research will expand the... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

16,500 construction jobs.[72] These examples, and many of the ones to follow, again illustrate the workforce focused effects of many of the current EJ projects, but they also make it necessary to consider EJ... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

Bennis. True North assembled this developmental process in an original approach that enabled people to develop themselves as authentic leaders. In order to see how leadership has changed in the past decade, we initiated research in 2014 that View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

His broader scholarship focuses on the geography of work, particularly how location affects productivity and innovation. The ongoing rise of remote work, propelled by COVID-19, calls into question the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

15 Feb 2024
News

Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled 'Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.' His course development efforts at Harvard Business School focuses View Details

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Projects - Business History

special issue of Business History Review, the creation of a new finding aid to the archival collection, and two academic conferences focused on the early modern origins of capitalism. Harvard Program View Details

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the optimal... View Details

15 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

Keywords: by Chonnikarn Fern Jira & Michael W. Toffel

Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions. I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

February 2021
Article

Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems

By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman

Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details

Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry

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15 Dec 2023
News

Like-Minded

Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

conception of what their job duties were, with employment contracts focused heavily on their particular task in the manufacturing process. For these workers, things like proposing a morale-boosting monthly... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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