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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
enterprise community SEI: What do you see as the mission of the Social Enterprise Conference? What impact do you hope to achieve with SECON 2014? Adam: The aim of this year's Social Enterprise Conference, on its 15th anniversary, is to energize and equip social... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before
Productivity Studies show that workers are more productive on rainy days than on sunny ones. Does your office take advantage? Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating Organizations spend a lot of money enabling employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2016
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Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
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Howard Stevenson Faculty
HBS Professor, Emeritus Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965, DBA 1969) talks about his involvement in helping solve complex social problems in health, the environment, and the news media. (Published April 2014) View Details
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Yuval Gonczarowski
had solved the “game of life." Since that day, something has drawn me toward programming. Understanding life as a combination of “Ones and Zeros,” the language that machines speak, uncovers endless opportunities; it allows us to... View Details
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Jeff Bernstein
'real world,'" Jeff says, "I found that I enjoyed the business aspects of my job more than the technical part. I preferred leading teams to solve problems as opposed to getting drawn into specific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
delve into the root causes of why the political system is failing and propose solving the problem by changing the election system. America’s political system is designed as a duopoly, where only two parties... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent
“Finding reliable, useful financial information is a real problem that anyone wanting to work at, sell to, buy from, or invest in a Chinese or Indian company must face. I am often asked for guidance in View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
loans and access to payments. Probably in my children's day, [it] will be something different. I never really sought out to be an entrepreneur, to be honest. I just sought out to solve an access problem that... View Details
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Rod Norman
life to help solve the economic, social, and political problems I saw in the Black community. I now realize that the world I saw then is only part of the larger world Dr. King saw. When he said,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
Using the Harvard MBA to Make a Difference in Politics & Policy
in all levels of government (from local to federal). HBS MBA Admissions invites you to a conversation with Professor Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004), Margaret Woolley Busse (MBA 2001), and Mina Hsiang (MBA 2010). Professor Mitch Weiss, in his book We the Possibility, argues the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
at the forefront of testing new models of high-impact philanthropy. The new trend is midcareer and late-career professionals who have had great success in business and are now looking for a more impact-driven career. People will take a lot of different paths. My... View Details
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
also made me much more tolerant of other people's opinions. I learned that there are other ways to solve a problem than the way engineers think. That was life-changing." But View Details
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Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA
orientation with a zeal for solving problems and creating products, as evidenced by experience in campus laboratories, course projects, and a diverse range of innovative or entrepreneurial endeavors. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
and thus more reason to reduce consumption still further. Many people think that this is an important part of what was going on in the 1930s. And Keynes said that if you want to solve a problem like this,... View Details
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Jamira Cotton
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? My undergraduate education in engineering shaped my ability to think analytically about solving rigorous problems. Additionally, while serving clients at McKinsey I constantly learned to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap
thousands of years to compute. More important, the quantum revolution would give us the ability to solve a whole class of problems that digital computers could never touch. In the quest to help us get there,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
the number of participants needed, and what incentives to provide. In most instances, he recommends that “an organization’s internal problem solvers should define the parameters of a challenge rather than attempt to View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
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Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab
Professor Srikant Datar’s creative problem-solving course, Design Thinking and Innovation, brings students together to hone their skills in identifying opportunities, prototyping solutions, and iterating to meet customer needs. “Creative View Details