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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a working paper, "Environmental... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
intervention that amounted to less than $10 per person (but at no cost to the farmer). Even more encouraging to Cole was news that another colleague, Harvard economics professor Michael Kremer, had seen similar results in Kenya. “We were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
Harvard Innovation Lab, and HBX take hold, they are attracting targeted donor support, freeing up unrestricted resources for new opportunities. This cycle of investment allows the School to act quickly and thoughtfully to foster... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
improve the economic and social well-being of low-income people by helping them create sustainable businesses. The diverse microenterprises she worked with included oil seed extraction, a sewing school, farming activities, dairy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
achieve sustained high commitment and high performance. Basing his approach on leaders who have the right values, Beer shows how to build a complete system that will spell business success no matter how challenging the economic climate.... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the “full View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
a reversal from twenty years ago,” Weaver noted. “Collectively, churches have shown the banking community just how much economic power they wield” (Miami Herald.com, March 20, 2009). View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
fact," says Davis, "more than two-thirds of all business enterprises worldwide are owned or managed by families, and 30 percent of the Fortune 500 companies are family owned or controlled." In Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
politics. The fact that Americans can’t agree on facts right now isn’t a unique experience. What does historical context suggest about breaking the cycle of misinformation or finding a way to move forward? Rawi Abdelal: I think that... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture Capital and Private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this virtuous View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean hydrogen. Within EVs, the IRA’s tax credit of 30 percent on commercial EVs (up to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
real bicycle that would fold — something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a prototype in his spare time (while fully employed as an architect) and discovered that others... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
the cycle and beginning it anew. Total revenue for fiscal 2008 increased by $46 million to $451 million, up 11.4 percent from the previous year. Executive Education and HBP revenues rose by a combined $26 million to $245 million, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity
during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details