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01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

reforms. Burden Hall was made possible by the Burden family, leaders in business and the arts. A big space designed for big moments, it became the focal point of community life at HBS. In the fall of 2017, after 46 eventful years, Burden... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

that can make a doctor-backed product like Systole a reassuring option, says Lee: “The patients I see are worried that the commercial options are too intense to be safe, or that they’ll be out of place if they aren’t a 20-something wearing Lululemon. There’s a big... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

16 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman; Computer; Communications; Telecommunications

28 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency costs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2015
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Evaluating the Impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on Breast-feeding Rates: A Multi-state Analysis

By: Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum and Matthew W. Gillman

Objectives: Despite the passage of state laws promoting breast feeding, a formal evaluation has not yet been conducted to test whether and/or what type of laws may increase breast feeding. The enactment of breastfeeding laws in different states in the USA creates a... View Details

Keywords: Race; Nutrition; Laws and Statutes; United States

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The need has emerged for a better understanding of design research and design innovation and how they are linked. In our discussion, we consider design as the process of “making sense of things.” Hence, our questions turn more precisely into the following ones: What... View Details

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

Accelerator! On the personal side, the MBA Program helped me confirm my choice of going into startups. Entrepreneurship is not just a career choice but a lifestyle one as well, and getting to try it while in school (a pretty “safe” space... View Details

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By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

2022
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Connecter les rêves

By: Hubert Joly and Mariana Arnaut

Trouver du sens dans son travail est plus que jamais vécu comme essentiel. L’entreprise, l’une des organisations humaines les plus capables d’innovation, a un rôle central à jouer face aux enjeux sociaux et environnementaux. Reste à déterminer quels principes peuvent... View Details

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01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

Krol in Harvard Business Review. "What's most important is to make space to hear how your team members are truly doing and to be compassionate. They may not want to share much detail, which is completely fine. Knowing that they can is... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

effectively discuss race, but if they approach it with a sense of openness and learning, they can play an important role in advocating change.” Managers must learn to create safe spaces at work to have these conversations and let... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

can do and build additional capacity, the organization must create the space for the leader to gain clarity about conscious and unconscious beliefs they hold. An understanding of those beliefs and how they inform actions is critical to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

making the most out of the downturn in commercial real estate by snapping up vacant Bed Bath & Beyonds or other space in struggling shopping malls and quickly filling them with courts. People pay to play but there’s absolutely no reason... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

expertise rooted in real-world experience, linking theory and practice to shape business practice and train business leaders. Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

And so we've spent a lot of time on innovation like that, where it's like you have a big goal in mind. You have something really substantial you want to achieve, and you work backwards from that and you take the time to achieve it. We have a little bit of a luxury in... View Details

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

my crystallized intelligence. And I wanted to have space to build my love relationships. I wanted to share the knowledge that I had. I wanted to have more time to walk my spiritual journey. I wanted to show myself that I could quit. I... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. The two-story, 15,000-square-foot facility on Harvard’s Allston campus is a... View Details

March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
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American Well: The DTC Decision

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details

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January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
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Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An

Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning

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