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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

AL Lauren Wainwright Indian Springs School Indian Springs, AL Subjects: American Government, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights MA Wendy Waldron Danvers High School Danvers, MA Subjects: US History I, US... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Capital Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988) , Senior Advisor, OCGI Climate Investments Jayant Sinha (MBA 1992) , Member of the Indian Parliament and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance Dan Stephens Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

Stay beautiful”—went viral on social media in 2013. (See illustration below) Campaign ad featuring Indian actress Nandita Das protesting skin-lightening creams. Source: Women of Worth, courtesy Rohit Deshpandé Fair skin part of India’s... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

15 Dec 2023
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The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

roughly a quarter of US patent filings. These contributions are reshaping US invention in dramatic ways. “One out of every 11 patents developed in the United States today is either invented or co-invented by an individual of Chinese or View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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Events - Business History

oral history had developed in India and its role in business history. Among other recent initiatives he discussed "itihaasa" , a project to document the growth of the Indian IT industry through oral history. The second half of the... View Details

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Our Curriculum - Business History

best-known entrepreneurs, as well as some of the most infamous, and shows their roles in the major events of the last century, from Gandhi's struggle for Indian Independence to the nightmare of Nazi Germany. Placing business in a broad... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

powerful. Despite numerous advances in the Indian economy, reduced birth rates, higher levels of female education, and other promising signals (this year saw the highest-ever number of women elected to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

footage of the attack, create a documentary-like account of events that took place over the course of 59 hours. The case also covers the hotel's history, its approach to training employees, the "guest is God" philosophy inherent in View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

Money Control Is there such a thing as an Indian way of doing business? Harvard Business School professors Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna say yes, and no... 19 MAR 2022 HBS Working Knowledge Five Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

recipient. When I applied to HBS, I wrote about wanting to be a “leader in Indian cinema, one who enables new voices, new audiences, and new ways of distributing cinema.” I didn’t become a leader in Bollywood cinema. Well, not yet... View Details

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

firms with 1,200 locations and 2,500 employees. And when Gupta saw Indians losing money by trading on futures, she started Anand Rathi's first vertical focused on introducing people to mutual funds, stocks, and long-term investments.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

could benefit in the long run from empowering their employees to meet customers’ emotional needs more often. For example, an equipment company gave its frontline employees a “memorable experience budget” to solve customer problems without needing higher approval. An... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

April 2023
Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

https://about.bnef.com/blog/bofas-1-5-trillion-sustainable-funding-to-focus-on-impact/. “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.” United States Environmental Protection Agency. Last updated July 14, 2023. https://www.epa.gov/greenhouse-gas-reduction-fund. “Guidebook to the... View Details

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Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

American Heart Journal Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States? by R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate... View Details

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

the possibility of change. My current research examines solutions for cities and regions, including their surrounding vulnerable treasures—for example, an almost-finished case on the efforts of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians to save the... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

your vision but also at the same time listening to what employees have to say," Groysberg says. Talk, Inc. highlights the case of the Indian company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., which at the turn of the twenty-first century... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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