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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

begins and ends with me... Social Enterprise Scale-Ups: Creating Ripples of Global Good Randy Haykin 14 Dec 2017 For the past five years, I’ve been developing an approach to scaling of social enterprises that I... Simple Lessons, Shared... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

This spring marked both the end of the academic year and a new beginning as HBS graduated more than nine hundred MBA students. These extremely talented young graduates joined the ranks of over 65,000 fellow alumni, located in 89 countries... View Details

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Building a Startup at HBS

certainty for anyone admitted to a hospital, still involved a great deal of guess work and discomfort. We reached out to staff at a number of leading hospitals in Boston and learned that the problem is especially severe in neonatal... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

of Cambridge and Boston, approaching any independent business owner who might have a business problem the “nerds” could help them address. They also convinced Professor Lynda M. Applegate to allow them to pitch the idea to her Executive... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

subject areas like FIN (Finance) and FRC (Financial Reporting & Control, which includes Accounting). They are more than happy to walk through a model together and break it down step by step. Furthermore, both of these courses are... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What Can We Learn from Google? Review and Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify View Details

15 Nov 2018
News

Don’t Be Afraid of AI

those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't get quoted as much in those things as the people who are... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

and, in any case, did not manage to reform the country in a fast enough pace. Driving from Athens to Thessaloniki in 20 hours is hardly an achievement—even if there is a lot of traffic. Moreover, I am happy to see old faces go: I am a big... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

tendency to prefer poor agents as they are easier to monitor. More generally, we describe the basic problem of choosing agents and monitoring consumption with the aim of reducing corruption and discuss features of the practical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

to litigation. Isn’t litigation best left to the experts? My view is that every legal dispute is a business problem that requires a business solution. I tell my students that if they end up in court, they’ve... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients around the world find solutions to... View Details

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

But it isn't easy. It requires that carefully-selected individuals possessing deep smarts devote significant amounts of time to the coaching of a self-selected protégé by creating a learning process that the authors term "guided experience" (including... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

the birth and midlife phases of business products and ideas," Raman observes. "We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses. What drew us to this problem is that death, or the process of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

aren't purposefully bad, says Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has authored several business management books, including Confidence: How Winning and Losing Streaks Begin and End and SuperCorp: How Vanguard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

property, the war also brought to an end the deepest Depression in history. Moreover, the decades after the war witnessed more rapid economic growth than the world had ever seen, not least in the vanquished countries. This paper... View Details