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IFC: Ghana; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

business from across Africa. In Ghana there will also be opportunities to discover the social and cultural landscape of Africa, including the changing role of women in the society and how the issues of ethnic diversity and inclusion are... View Details

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

like Grubhub. For more, see It’s Called Price Coherence, and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers.) THE TEMPTATION TO CUT CORNERS COMPETITIVELY Edelman contends that the current competitive landscape encourages all TNCs to cut corners, or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

best friend and lover since college? In Amy Unbound, you will witness the collision of love, ambition, family, and commitment as one extraordinary woman navigates the complex journey toward personal and professional fulfillment. The emotional View Details

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

$10 million, the ALS landscape has radically changed. Most of the big drug companies are setting up ALS research programs and the number of ALS research publications is skyrocketing.” While effective treatments remain elusive, Kremer and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Tiffany Pham

kind-hearted nature and candor.” How do you use what you learned at HBS today? “At HBS, I learned to think on my feet and make optimal decisions, with limited information, while overcoming complex problems. In the media and technology sector, as the View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

performance. Course Content and Organization The course is structured into four modules: 1. Business Models and The Complete Strategy Landscape How can firms create enormous entrepreneurial value by developing new business models? The... View Details

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

landscape of possibilities, while a product development team struggles to understand customers' changing needs and to invent new ways to serve them, and a production team seeks to improve its work process. Seen in this way, managers have... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

25 Aug 2022
News

On Purpose

this deeper understanding of purpose can serve as a trusted compass to help point the way through the increasingly tangled landscape of issues on which leaders are being asked to take a stand—such as social inequality or the war in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2020
News

Vital Signs

impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture landscape that could arise from... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

equity investors (Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov forthcoming). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51659 Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Vortex: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

Business School was being established on the right basis and being run on the right lines.” Baker’s endowment, and a remarkable collaboration between architects McKim, Mead & White and landscape design firm Olmsted Brothers, made possible... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

the educational aspects of computing. OLPC has made a difference already because it changed the landscape in terms of dreams and expectations. Observers can see what makes the goal of one laptop per child difficult to achieve. Says... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic is the decision-making around office space? Maria Roche: I think there was a lot more experimentation earlier, in terms of letting... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

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Jason A. Kilar

challenges you encounter because of the timing and the landscape in which you are starting the business. There is also the business model and the opportunity. What we’re doing with Vessel is actually very different than what we did with... View Details

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

lot of the concepts we learned in TOM (RC class Technology and Operations Management) about bottlenecks to ensure that our clients were quickly attended to.” Adding to the challenge of managing their volunteer team was the evolving View Details

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

ubiquitous by the 2010s; (3) asset lockups, which disappeared from the landscape for thirty years, have reemerged, though in a "new economy" variation; and (4) practitioners have begun implementing side agreements to the deal... View Details