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- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the total spend available and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
educational needs by age, gender, socioeconomic status, or an annual test, AltSchool aims to use technology to dramatically increase the personalization of the educational experience and hence improve outcomes." AltSchool is organized as a B Corporation, a View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”
very helpful,” says Josh, “especially when you work across departments.” The most important contribution of a HBS education, Josh believes, “is helping people think about how to break apart and structure problems. It’s an endless repeat... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
likely change and then all of us will be thinking about water a lot. Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) knows that, and the company she founded, Artemis Water Strategy, is dedicated to finding technologies for companies and governments around the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and policies that were influential as Europe first took off relative to the rest of the world. They also shed light on the historical interconnection of businesses and governments at the dawn of real globalization. The reigning idioms of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Zimbabwe shows. Most leaders are easily replaceable - usually more than we think they are, and almost always far more than they think they are. A select few are not. A relative... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
justified slavery, and created institutional and structural racism. I know YOU specifically didn’t do this, but I think this point illustrates that you, too, should have skin in the game in terms of dismantling systems of oppression. If... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
delivery system used to treat patients with Type II diabetes (not all of insulin’s use cases). It currently needs 100-175x the amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) compared to insulin injection pens because the oral drug is absorbed via the stomach lining,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of translucent blue, orange, and pink... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
ongoing topic for founders and investors. But relatively few start-ups (and surprisingly few VCs) clarify ongoing customer selection criteria. Q: In the article's step-by-step process, you emphasize the "ideal customer profile."... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must systematically differ from—and typically be lower than—those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers is more profitable for merchants that are patient or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
is progressing daily. You can't settle for the typical schedule of drug discovery and development. So forget the drug companies. We'll form our own. “Well, you can't just tell me that at nine o'clock at night and think I'm going to go to... View Details
- Web
Power and Influence - Course Catalog
organizations. To be successful in getting things done in organizations, it is critical that you be able to comprehend the patterns of interdependence among organizational participants and to diagnose their relative power. Our focus will... View Details
- Web
Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge
macroeconomists provide evidence that the construction sector is holding back the broader economy. There are spillover effects from the construction sector that enable other activities to emerge, just like we think about roads and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
paper we draw on the recent literature to highlight areas in which history has played a particularly prominent role in improving our understanding of growth dynamics. Research at the intersection of historical data, theory, and empirics has the potential to reframe how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman