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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
daunting prospect of determining which residents would receive 300 square feet of free housing (limited to families in residence before January 2000), it’s easy to imagine a nightmarish scenario of unpopular evictions and shutdowns of... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
get money. If they can't get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are working on a project to use human embryonic stem cells to cure diabetes by creating new beta cells in the... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan
wife—the sustaining anchor to all these experiences. His excitement for their shared future and the next phase of his career is tempered by the sacrifices he’s seen and experienced on the front lines of public service. He is eager to apply his skills to the world of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
As digital technologies become more ubiquitous, so will software platforms. They can potentially reduce search and transaction costs for any imaginable economic transaction. Today we can already search for, choose, and pay for many goods... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one person, it’d be pretty... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
tokenism, of one and done is over, but look for potential, not perfection. And we ask inclusive leaders to be humble, courageous, and curious. Seek those who are not like you. Talent will be the differentiator in 2021 and beyond. Imagine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
DEAN NOHRIA: Addressing his first reunion audience in Burden Auditorium, he outlined the priorities that emerged from many conversations over the summer. Photos by Stuart Cahill Related Links Upcoming regional alumni events with Dean Nohria View Details
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- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
date that people are frustrated that they simply can't solve with existing technology. It's hard for me to even predict those things. I like to say when we created the Palm, we never imagined Uber. And so, we don't know what they all will... View Details
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
as good or bad outlooks you're born with but as mindsets to adopt as situations demand." When testing strategic plans, deploy defensive pessimism, imagining all the things that can go wrong in the future. But when the task requires... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
found myself imagining what a section mate might think about a certain topic or looking back through my notes to remember some framework. As the summer approached an end, I was eager to see everyone on campus and get back to class again.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
School, has shaped Friedlander’s time at HBS and he’s enjoyed meeting members of the donor family and expressing his appreciation for their support. (photo by Susan Young) “Because of this assistance, I can imagine myself doing something... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
couldn't have arrived where I am without HBS. From a personal standpoint, I've had the confidence to take risks and be the leader in the room because HBS prepared me to be. From students to faculty, I met some of the people who I am the closest to now and I could not... View Details
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Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Case Writing & Industry: Header Case Writing & Industry Case Writing & Industry: Quote The case method is powerful because it allows students to grapple with problems as if they are the decision maker. In the end, they can actually View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ink: The Three-Step Startup
was in the engineering school. And I said to the dean, “It can’t be that I’m supposed to teach a spirit. Imagine if we taught the engineers in charge of building our bridges to rely on a similar bridge-building spirit.” That would be... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
permanent and temporary “on-demand” positions—has helped businesses save more than $1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
districts had above-average financial development. But, that’s an example of how one might imagine that there are complements between infrastructure spending and making financing available. About the Author Martha Lagace is a writer based... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people imagine as an individual... View Details