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21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

without much physical interaction: Zoom replaced meetings, Slack subbed for water-cooler talk, and offices stood mostly vacant. “Our view is that the metaverse can still succeed.” Researchers Andy Wu and David R. Clough felt the brunt of... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

07 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

After Clinique, Twist brought her skills and experience to a group of iconic American brands and led all marketing, e-commerce, business intelligence, and creative for Isaac Mizrahi, Halston, Judith Ripka, and C. Wonder as Chief Marketing View Details

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

talent during the 2020 season, and millions on top of that for coaches, managers, and other front office staff. How can teams ensure that these dollars are well spent? And what can companies learn from the high stakes world of NFL talent... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this particular exercise has produced a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

dating from 1840 to 1895, housed in Baker Library’s Historical Collections. Probably not the first thing you’d pick up for beach reading. Yet once the eyes adjust, a lost world opens up. Much like ours, it’s driven by human strivings... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

and the City Library, and most importantly, helping the Office of the Mayor develop a system of collaboration where startups can play a role in doing pilots with dozens of city departments without the typical red tape.” “San Francisco is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

opportunities to working with founders and managers to sponsoring over 120 successful initial public offerings. As well known as the venture capital industry is today, that was far from the case in 1965, when Greylock opened a small View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Above: photo by Dimitris Papamitsos/ Greek Prime Minister’s Office Nearly all of the low-slung café tables in the Hotel Grande Bretagne’s lounge are already occupied by late in the afternoon on an average Thursday. This is the domain of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Graduating During a Pandemic

am from Section H, and I served as the HBS Chief Community Officer for the Class of 2021. I was responsible for using the Student Association’s resources to nurture student life for the nearly 2,000 MBA and PhD students who call HBS home.... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector

academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS. Also taking part were more than a dozen CEOs and senior... View Details

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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

that time the program had given had given the students a "voice"; if they had only gone to HBS she said, "we never would have spoken up, we never would have been recognized for our ideas, and we never would have gained that sort of self-confidence." 19 12 University... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

presence “somewhere” in Asia and “somewhere” in Europe in addition to our offices in New York. Facing the same concern as you—how do we make sure that our value proposition and brand remain constant across the regions—we took our time and... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2001
News

Q&A: John Quelch

management problems that business leaders will face in the future. How do the HBS research centers in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, and elsewhere fit into this effort? The research centers you mentioned — along with a new European Research Center in Paris and a satellite... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

been opened to a fast-growing number of travelers ranging from student study groups to Syrian President al-Assad walking a stretch of the path with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. As it takes fuller shape, the Path variously serves as... View Details