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- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
to as high as, in some cases, millions of dollars. Khaire and Wadhwani describe their work in "Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category—Modern Indian Art," which is scheduled to be published in a forthcoming Academy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on further private investment,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
clamor for accountability, it is tempting to accept the popular normative view that more accountability is better. But is it feasible, or even desirable, for nonprofit organizations to be accountable to everyone for everything? The challenge for leadership and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
to promote the growth of the city's economy, was asked by the city and state to take over management of these donations. In turn, an NYCP subsidiary, the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF), took charge of this mission. Maria G. Gotsch... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
groups such as Boko Haram, which at least promise something to eat. Kola Masha Managing Director, Doreo Partners Masha's Babban Gona system turns subsistence farmers into commercial growers using a franchise model that provides everything... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Management and HBS. They stood on the Weeks Footbridge and, on the spot, decided on Harvard. Despite his obvious talents, life at HBS wasn’t necessarily easy for the young Canadian student. He arrived in class the first day wearing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
unnoticed. As CEO of Impromptu Gourmet, a start-up approaching its one-year anniversary, Max Polaner (MBA '97) knew that his company could not afford a huge donation, but he decided to give all proceeds for a month from dessert purchases... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Tom Stemberg (MBA ’73), founder and former CEO of Staples, which had received start-up backing from Romney’s Bain Capital, urged him to make universal health-care coverage a priority. Certainly the stars already seemed to be aligning: As... View Details