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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
of moral problems that are very stressful to deal with. It needs mutual learning. It needs multiple perspectives. There's a third reason that popped up in the 90s: globalization. There now is an awareness... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
"This is not simply a liquidity crisis or simply a problem of a messed-up financial system," said Merton. Standard financial models remove some of the mystery about what has happened and make the financial crisis comprehensible,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
the lab. In 2016 Lee and four Harvard cofounders launched DZD to apply genome sequencing and machine learning to the problem of growing antibiotic resistance. Their technology helps doctors diagnose life-threatening infections, like... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
innovated as much on how we deliver the theory in these readings. In particular, I worry that my students will forget these readings very quickly as the readings, unlike cases, are not very experiential or interactive." Watching his 10-year-old son work out math... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
control so no problems are hidden." But recent research proves the virtue of letting employees do at least some work unobserved. In a series of studies, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
mass of consumers and producers. “If I was a tech company, I would sponsor every single hackathon I could find.” The researchers used an innovative dataset to show that the social environment of hackathons can solve a number of problems... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
that could cost a company several months of time, hundreds of millions of dollars, or both. Later, working as a product manager for a robotics and automation startup after HBS, McLemore realized that the problem wasn’t unique to the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
ordinary drill bits, severely limited time, and the potentially immobilizing fear that plagued the buried miners. Could the trapped miners and rescue workers mobilize before air and resources were depleted? The case describes the ensuing efforts that draw the resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
who need them, especially among vulnerable populations. Racial inequities, laid bare by the pandemic, and social unrest provoked by recent police killings have escalated tensions. In the course of writing Problem Solving: HBS Alumni... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
the bad news is that with younger audience is increasingly seeing heroin as OK, that heroin is cool for some reason. 20% of them think there is little or no risk in trying heroin, and 15% think it's OK to use heroin on a regular basis.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
shift to professional management in 1983-1986; the Xerox acquisition in 1987; the MBO in 1993; and the ING acquisition in 1997. Presents the transactions from multiple points of view: the founders and their associates; the professional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
participating in Israel: Startups and Venture Capital the experience of learning by doing in a country recognized globally as a tech hub. “I was fortunate to work with great teammates and an exciting partner —an automotive cybersecurity company at the cutting edge of a... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
have been exploring the intersection of design and entrepreneurship for a couple of years. We’ve concluded that human-centered design skills are an ideal set of tools for someone who wants to lead a tech venture. These methods can be applied to wide range of open-ended... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
stored, used, and collaborated on information in eight digital systems and their knowledge management practice was, in their words, “a nightmare.” The team’s leadership acknowledged these problems but didn’t have the capacity to work... View Details
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
“was more about taking time to figure out what problems I wanted to solve,” she said. “I had worked on other people’s problems, now it was time to solve problems I cared about.” How... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg