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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
club, he met monthly to discuss the work of Nobel Prize winners, including Herta Müller and Kenzaburō Ōe, as well as more mainstream authors such as Michael Chabon and James Michener. In a novel, that would be the perfect setup for what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
history, Austin and his coauthors identified the decision to mainstream social enterprise material into every aspect of HBS research and teaching as “a defining strategic choice.” Today, the initiative’s strategic objectives range from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
Neeley hopes her book—along with recent Harvard Business Review articles, academic articles, cases, an online learning global collaboration simulation, and insights she shares as a professor in the MBA and Executive Education programs—continues to make language a View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
“This was an idea that probably wasn’t going to be well received by the mainstream philanthropy world but had really big potential,” he recalls. A Princeton University study of GiveDirectly’s efforts is an early measure of that potential.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
motivated and characterized successful firms for decades, in the environmental arena and elsewhere. Thus, he concludes, "The way to situate business in the context of the natural environment is to integrate the natural environment into the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
feelings, and self-image. Food is like clothing or shelter: you can get by with the basics, or you can aspire to some aesthetics. The new insistence on food quality may be an outgrowth of a larger need to put more meaning and satisfaction in our lives. Is View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
tweeted by Carroll’s friends, posted on social news sites, shared with Facebook friends, and picked up by bloggers. From there it was a quick hop to the mainstream media; by the end of July, the video had been viewed 4.6 million times,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Connecting past to present
extensive resources into an easy option for families across the globe. “By leveraging technology, the Internet, and network-effect scale, we’ve sparked mainstream interest in family history by making it accessible to millions of people... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
institutions that lead to different translations of changes in attitudes and beliefs. For example, in the United States, there is little space for third parties, so the rise of populism has taken place within the mainstream parties,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
inclusive viewpoint, observing, "There is no inherent conflict between capitalism and the needs of society." More specifically, he continued, the inner city must be brought into the mainstream economy, not classified as an area in need of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Behn says. “In the food manufacturing world, a lot of the waste is kept private. Major foodmakers won’t tell you how much they waste in the manufacturing process.” Instead the Imperfect team visited mainstream retailers, looked at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
mainstream Chinese companies because they’re small entrepreneurial Internet ventures initially. In almost all the companies that we back in China, there is little or no government investment. We don’t invest in state-owned enterprises,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
convey? You have to stay close to your core consumer. Even though Skullcandy has grown over the years, and we now sell in mainstream places like Best Buy, Target, and Apple stores, the consumer at the center of our circle is still the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
touch with our shared humanity." It was a lack of such shared humanity, in fact, that motivated Slifka to establish The Abraham Fund after visiting Israel and finding that his Jewish friends there did not know any Arabs. "I discovered that there was no View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers, traditionally the leaders in the old-market economy, became threatened by... View Details