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- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
CEO and his team. Q: What caused the failure of Alpha's first attempt at a customer service initiative in the early 1990s? A: Initially, the first CSE [Customer Service Enhancements] initiative was not a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a customer. Critics, who included a number of high-profile CEOs, argued that the law granted... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
increasingly pervasive nature of mobile connectivity and access to big data tools provides the opportunity to increase financial inclusivity through fintech startups. Mobile payments, saving, and lending are... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
mobility and absence of ties to land, to slave society, or loyalty to any particular state, worked to their advantage. No one had written about that before. So my editors and I agreed that this should be a separate book. Q: Albert... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
interesting science – but not scale technologies and services companies. This requires a lot of grit and determination from companies, and patience in working with the federal government – a tricky combination. I'm very excited,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to invest all that money? Typically we’ll invest a new fund over a three-year period, and then go out and raise our next fund. Accel IX, which we started investing in January 2005, is very much focused on consumer Internet, mobile... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
2006, he cofounded Behance, a networked portfolio website for artists. Six years later, it was acquired by Adobe, where Belsky now oversees products related to social networking and mobile apps. The overlap between his nine-to-five and... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
conducted over twice as many community mobilization meetings, while seeing approximately the same number of patients at the health posts. Both groups spent the same amount of time at each household, meaning the career group wasn't... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
incumbents do not achieve this objective because they encourage the survival and expansion of low-type firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54520 forthcoming Journal of Political Economy A Theory of Intergenerational View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
failures of early online grocers such as Webvan, grocery remains both the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery delivery service called AmazonFresh in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
in the new world of fixed-line broadband and mobile convergence, and IoT networks. During her time in the corporate world, she also discovered a passion for entrepreneurship—building diverse ecosystems of innovators that “cultivate... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students
process for the three of us. We were extremely thankful for the support that we received from our professors, HBS, as well as the Harvard and MBA communities. Professor Ryan Buell, who teaches Managing Service Operations, responded to our... View Details
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1.2 MBA Honor Code | MBA
commitment to the learning model. Engaging in behaviors or activities that detract from the in-class learning environment, including the use of technology in non-class-enhancing ways. Unless authorized by a faculty member, mobile phones,... View Details
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Systems Leadership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
health equity to inclusive economies and workforce resilience, today’s biggest challenges are deeply rooted in multiple parts of society. Through research, teaching, and convenings, we examine systems applications in various fields to View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
virus. “They created products and services that have the potential to reduce the spread of the virus, improve patient care, and create community when in-person gatherings aren’t possible,” explains Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
respondents said they viewed online content on multiple devices. "Research indicates that smart phones and mobiles are where it's at in emerging markets," says Leach. "But we found that many people still use computers that rely on Wi-Fi.... View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Corp.: Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 307-055 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307055 Good Technology: Empowering Mobility around the Globe (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne