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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
affecting less than 1 in 2,000 people. Globally, there are about 350 million people , or 8% of the population, with a rare disease, yet only 5% of these diseases have an approved therapy. It’s a “ small numbers, big problem ” dilemma that... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
that's a business opportunity. And then we said, now we need a business model. What kind of business problems are we going to solve where this technology is the single best solution? We made a prediction and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
to make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed funding three months later. Foodology View Details
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Teaching Quantitative Material - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Providing Assessment & Feedback Sample Class Teaching quantitative material with the case method challenges students to build their capabilities in identifying and solving problems embedded in context, think... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
gets people to take risks, try new things, and envision something better. In the end, participants leave with the skills to identify, frame, and solve complex business problems and the confidence to make... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
Andy Wu. Gaming is special because it’s 50 percent technology and 50 percent entertainment. In gaming, we’re challenged to solve both the problems of tech and entertainment. On the tech side, we have to... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
overcome them in order to drive impact at scale. For the full listing, click here . HBS EC Course - Public Entrepreneurship - Mitchell Weiss This course is designed for students who may found, join, or fund private startup companies that sell to (or around) governments... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
happening in the United States, the Chenault brothers and their four co-founders, Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen, found themselves in deep discussions about how they could help solve a centuries... View Details
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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
“Data-driven decision-making, executive-level synthesis, insight, and communication are all part of the MBA skill set, in addition to quick time-to-output. The training that leads people to take a complex and somewhat amorphous problem... View Details
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this question: Has somebody else in the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
innovative product's inherently disruptive nature, the incumbent inevitably tries to morph the product to fit into its existing processes and values. It alters the innovation to enhance its appeal to core customers and fit within its operating model. The View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at the top of the business. And I... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
fearful because they don’t have a sense of how to unpack the problem and what steps to take to solve it effectively. In the third category, there is a clear desire; the leaders are courageous enough to take... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
cognitive referent in the market. So they ended up actually undermining their own performance even while they helped the market take off.” The successful firms focused first on trying to solve a problem and... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
world's problems today. The past few decades have seen a shift in the development and relief industry to incorporate a rights-based approach to programs and services. In addition, the ability to solve... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
for solving challenging problems with the interpersonal skills required for deep relationship building. Coaching, mentoring, and leading lights her up and further her mission. “I knew that I wanted to get an... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
revenue, which is also difficult for a public company to do. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: metamorworks] Book Excerpt Launch: Solve the “Chicken-or- Egg” View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
manufacturing, which allowed them to exploit the potential of carbon fiber. Lagace: Where can companies get better ideas? Pisano: The problem is often not where they look but where they don’t look for ideas. If you ask where ideas for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
synchronous sessions with a combination of HBS faculty, social impact practitioners, and alumni to discuss cross-sector topics. Each session will be interactive with opportunities to collaborate with other HBS alumni on problem solving,... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
my approach to various planning-related problems I tackle each day. My ability to identify details related to business efficiency and performance that I may have missed in the past was fine-tuned in the program, and my understanding of... View Details