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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
hotel, and push back a plan that threatened historic buildings around Grand Central Terminal. “In terms of size and scope, we’re the premier preservation organization in New York,” says Zuckerberg, who has been chair of the nonprofit’s... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
executives from Fortune 1000 companies. Among employees, 73 percent expressed interest in a defined contribution system, citing advantages such as the ability to choose the best quality plan in which their physician participates and the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
Sustainability Club is planning on doing more social events next year to foster a sense of community, help students get connected to the right industry players, and even go on a Trek to explore... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
right kind of competition working. The health care system can achieve stunning gains in quality and efficiency. And employers, the major purchasers of health care services, could lead the transformation. [ ] Positive-sum Competition In a... View Details
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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog
This course is designed to provide hands-on guidance through the early stages of building your business. Students will test assumptions and hypotheses to evolve their product, build their strategic and operating roadmaps, create organizational View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
the surface for the right level of tackiness before laying down the gold leaf." After pressing on the paper-thin strips of gold, Pawlick burnished the dome with a soft brush before giving it a final polish. Built in 1927, the Baker... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Web
From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations | Information Technology
identify areas requiring coverage, but this essential process can be tedious and error-prone. This raises an intriguing question: Can AI help streamline this process by analyzing code changes and automatically mapping them to the right... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Bringing Art to the People It Depicts
weeks ago. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, will be on view through July 19. The Dean Collection showcases Parks’ work from his days taking portraits in early 1940s Chicago to his powerful images of the Civil Rights... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
ideas would surface, because previous reforms have missed the mark. There is no plan for American healthcare right now; nobody has one. The only plan is to put more money into... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Rob Casper
As a Marine captain with experience in the Middle East, East Asia, and Afghanistan, Rob Casper has learned to learn from mistakes. “When I went into the Philippines, I had what I thought was a brilliant plan for teaching patrol skills to... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
content. The plan was to grow an audience of sufficient size to attract advertisers but, she says in retrospect, "It wasn't the right business model for me." Cynthia knew she wanted a positive cash... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
their children, plan social interactions, be alerted to pertinent products and services, and accelerate the value of a person's connections. Two trends will lead to this outcome. First, people are already sharing private information... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 22 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)
conversation with a friend during a post-banking trip helped shift my perspective. When she asked me what I liked most about my finance job, my answer—running ads, planning events, and creating promotional items—had nothing to do with... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
own impact venture. The MS/MBA at Harvard was the perfect fit. My biggest worries about starting my own venture were, “What if I fail?”, “Where do I even begin?” and “Is entrepreneurship right for me?” For the first question, I have... View Details
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Katy Lankester
manager. When I put that all together, I had enough direction to ask companies the right questions, and found a great fit. My current employer came to campus, and I’d never heard of them before, but I was able to be confident that it had... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
each partnership school retains budgetary and management independence. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Inspired to focus his career on improving education after teaching for a year in... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
their jobs. Common sense suggests why this will lead to an inefficient public sector. Nationalization or reversal of planned privatizations of economic assets. I have not seen not even one credible academic study that suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim