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- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
meaningful for me. To achieve this, tried to be more intentional and deliberate about my learning. For example, one week, I had a post-it to remind myself not just to say something and relax afterward, but to make sure to listen for the comments and overall... View Details
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Maya Babu
Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Twenty-five years ago, the average businessperson did not need to think too much about the environment. Although there was concern over clean air and water, safe food, and an intact ozone layer, people didn't summon the words "the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
largest charter school systems with 54 schools in six cities serving underprivileged communities. The vast majority of their student bodies are filled with children of color from low-income backgrounds. Given such a high need for quality... View Details
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
(HSPH) Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (HSPH) Launching Tech Ventures (HBS) Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning (HGSE) Managing the Future of Work (HBS) Power and Influence for Positive Impact (HBS/HKS)... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- News
Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners
things so far in the history of Khan Academy. This validates us, not just, ‘Hey, here’s this nice thing that might be helpful for you to learn.’ This is going to be systemically important. “The College Board has recognized—they have... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
central challenge of our time: how to meet the enormous resource demands of a rapidly growing global population without destroying the natural systems that sustain us,” he says. Merkl found his passion as a young boy playing along the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman sparked the massacre. This event... View Details
- Student-Profile
Olivia Zhao
the social sciences were very appealing to me. Also, all the questions I found most interesting were being studied there by economists, so I wanted to learn how to use their methods to make meaning out of data. “As for why I chose to specialize in health policy, I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each provider, and providers must... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion trip to Africa in 2019. Delle... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink their tax obligations, how the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
electrical systems went all the way back to my childhood. I think I bumped my knee one time, and my grandfather used an ohmmeter as a faux healing tool and said, ‘see when that needle moves, that’s going to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Seeing glass in a new light
buildings, dynamic glass dramatically increases flexibility in architectural design while reducing energy consumption. As CEO of View Dynamic Glass, Mulpuri has succeeded in taking this 50-year-old nanotechnology to market and is leading the intelligent control View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
responsibility of selecting and compensating leaders to each hospital board. This system has led to many of the same CEOs heading different hospitals within the system, making it easier to track whether an individual has an impact on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
a massive scale," he warned. "I don't think many of us think this is a very good system if this is a good way to handle it, to hand it over to trial lawyers. But that... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dominique Baillet
shut my big mouth once and for all. And I have had to think carefully about tact. The world is bigger than when I was eight years old. I feel more exposed and less sure about weighty issues. But I know View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace