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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She believes that global health... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
team's time slot. They go off to digest the feedback, making way for a team in the hallway that's vibrating with nervous energy. Much like the businesses that had their start in a similar scene—recent successes include CloudFlare, Rent the Runway, Good Start Genetics,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
don’t see a repeat of 1989,” he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market’s biggest problem, says Joseph O’Connor (MBA ’70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
creating tangible impact in a social sense while also meeting my need to show future recruiters I was more than just an attack pilot with a bleeding heart? Things started coming together at Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA), a networking and professional View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Many markets have "unraveled" and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
reducing system loss and turning around a public corporation in disarray was a formidable and risky challenge. There were also risks on the regulatory front, where water-related issues could be susceptible to political pressure. However, we were comfortable that the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
worked at a Roxbury-based housing development company. Willis has spent his career focused on urban development projects and continues to run his real estate consultancy firm... View Details
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
for America, which describes itself as the "Peace Corps for Geeks." Its coders take publicly available data and use technology to visualize the work of government for the public in accessible ways. In Boston, for example, the group worked with the Mayor's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
allegories play to. In large cities and urban and ethnic areas, Mountain Dew barely shows up on the radar. However, in the mostly working-class, non-urban metro areas in the Eastern half of the country, Mountain Dew "blew through the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing marketing plans to maximize each... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Black History Month | Baker Library
curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection activities focus on the career and professional development needs of our MBA students and alumni, as well as on access to business content to the Harvard... View Details