Enabling - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jan 2014
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Learning from Helping Others

with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests. "Students come away from the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

entrepreneur and thus, despite our both working equally hard with respect to family and expectations, can’t relate to my catering to 14 time zones. I presume that I would feel the same in her shoes. So it’s the little things that enable... View Details

25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm

it.” It was a humbling reality check. Then Dyson met David Campbell, the founder of All Hands volunteers, an organization that enables volunteers to provide on-the-ground assistance following natural disasters. Initially, Campbell had the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery

01 Mar 2019
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Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

the United States, where infrastructure already exists. Ultimately, GAIA decided to invest in its own supply chain. Today the company has a fleet of 20 delivery trucks and 40 drivers, plus a centralized warehouse. The staff has grown from 50 in 2016 to 250, a huge... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

security) so that it can become a globally accepted medium of exchange? —Joseph DiSorbo (OPM 41, 2011) So far the ecosystem has been working on creating the basic infrastructure for bitcoin to operate: exchanges allowing people to buy and sell; wallets View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

talent to the funding you provide for key initiatives. We were able to move quickly and effectively in response to the pandemic because of the generosity of alumni whose gifts to the HBS Fund enabled the considerable investment in... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2020
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Giving Amazon the Boot

stores were created using its platform compared to the first quarter of 2020, and the company’s revenue rose 97 percent to $714.3 million. Helen Mou (MBA 2014) is a Shopify product lead who is focused on the company’s conversational commerce tools, which View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Assistant Professor Monica C. Higgins and Professor Nitin Nohria explores how language enables perfect strangers to initiate a process that may lead to business collaboration. In their 1996 working paper, "How Language Works: Interaction... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

25 Jun 2014
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A Man on a Mission

get an early immersion in the college setting. And last November, he helped another organization, Entrepreneurial Engagement Ohio, gain a $5 million grant to enable high school students to attend lectures and compete for scholarships to... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; NASA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

decisions can enable or inhibit them from achieving their goals. The Moment of Truth For Founder-CEOs, Good Deeds Seldom Go Unpunished “My data show that 52 percent of founder-CEOs are replaced by the time their start-ups raise their... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

but also ensures that the rules of the game are such that prosperity is widely shared and that problems like climate change are adequately addressed. How does democracy affect the power balance that enables free markets to thrive? RH:... View Details

04 Feb 2020
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In Harmony

to bring in guest artists, recruit faculty, maintain facilities, and continually improve the experience for everyone involved. “Basically, in the business side of nonprofits, we’re enablers,” reflects Weinstein. “We enable the people who... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Feb 2000
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The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum

ethics question to come is: "To what extent will we allow ourselves to become post-human?" Turkle concluded her remarks by posing what she believes should be the ultimate question for any new technology: "Does it enable us to do better as... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

across ABP Media's channels, Karan Kapur (MBA 2015) provided hundreds and thousands of meals through his international FnB venture K Corp, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) enabled the mission to be displayed in millions of smartphones through... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

downloadable to their PalmPilots, but spreadsheet toolkits that deliver core calculations like that bane of the required Finance course, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). It also enables Professor McAfee, for example, to poll... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Mar 2014
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A Life Transformed

Utkal University, receiving his degree in 1978. During that time, he also took courses in banking and finance, which enabled him to be promoted to a managerial position. With little room for career growth at the bank where he worked,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

01 Sep 2013
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Leading the Way

unveiled The Harvard Campaign, which aims to strengthen the University's financial foundations and enable new investments and initiatives. As part of this endeavor, The Harvard Business School Campaign—set to launch in April 2014—aims to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

clusters due to population densities. Enable them to congregate with part-time access to coworking offices. They will self-organize according to project necessity or their own desires for face time. Remote-first will not be without... View Details