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- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
"What UIDAI is creating is a road, a road that connects every individual to the state," Nilekani said in the case. "How each one of us uses that road, how far we travel along it, is up to each... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
Privacy Policy on this page. Your continued use of this Website constitutes acceptance of such terms and policies. General Statement You may visit the Working Knowledge website without identifying yourself or revealing any personal... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
allow people to choose Medicare or private insurance. The Republicans, for their part, have focused on dismantling Obamacare and making hospital prices more transparent. Which, if any of these, can solve these serious problems? We think... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
and insurance and asset managers and banking to collaborate on the issue that gives us the best chances. Because this is going to be a this is not a linear path, this is going to be a very bumpy road to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual fund following an index fund approach. Such a program may place much less of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? Some insiders joke that any time MBAs pile into a field, it’s a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989... View Details
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
Most would-be entrepreneurs realize their startup dream after finishing their MBA. But for Angie Hicks, the founder of Angie’s List, the road to successful entrepreneurship began well before she headed to HBS. In 1995, Hicks arrived in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
might approach this question in a spirit of inquiry; don’t feel pressured to narrow to one cause too quickly. Begin by picking a few causes that you find yourself drawn to and then create a 12-month learning agenda for yourself. Learn... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
hardly be called work. My biggest worries now are missing the brown drake hatch on Silver Creek and dodging elk on the road to Stanley." As I looked around Section F in 1974, I... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
down the road and looking to change direction, don’t hesitate to jump in. I’m a huge fan of starting your own company, because I think it lets you get closer to life. Your destiny is in your own hands. If it’s Sunday night and you’re not... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
I'm in a winter coat and hat in the January pre-dawn cold and dark, standing on sandbags on a riverbank in the middle of Uttar Pradesh, India. Pilgrims and the faithful and the respectful come to the river... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
beautiful. Very picturesque. There is literally one road in and one road out. And frankly they're the same road. The town has, I believe, fewer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
ability to do what's necessary to move the company from one place to the other. As a result, you're likely to end up with the problem HBS professor Clay Christensen has identified as discontinuity. That's no way to put a company back... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a consumer marketer trying to build a brand. "They are road signs that help people find orientation in the jungle of supply", said Hans G. Gueldenberg, CEO of Nestlé Deutschland AG. According... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Tractor Company Photographs The Caterpillar Tractor Company, one of the world's leading manufacturers of tractors, was formed in 1925. From early on the company mounted extensive marketing campaigns... View Details