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Kraft Accelerator

Curing could be your business But first, build an effective plan Develop a Plan If you’ve got the passion, we’ve got the playbook Today, there are more than 20,000 different cure-seeking organizations, each one operating under their own set of rules, guidelines, View Details

01 Oct 1997
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W. Hall Wendel, Jr.

At an altitude of more than 29,000 feet, on a bright May morning in 1994, Hall Wendel gazed down at the mountainous panorama beneath him. To the north lay China; to the south, Nepal. Wendel's view was not from the pressurized comfort of a jetliner. After weeks of... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; mountain; adventure; climbing

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

what is okay and what is not okay,” she says. Despite several well-funded competitors, Shruti is betting on ApnaKlub’s “human” approach in an increasingly automated world of customer service. “We stay close to our customers,” she... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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Events | Social Enterprise

change. Apr 16 April 16, 2026 Executive Education: Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation–Virtual For nonprofit leaders, this live, online Executive Education program explores how to align mission and... View Details

29 Jul 2013
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A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

the context of an ethical framework that legitimizes self-interested behavior. Our challenge is to provide evidence and arguments for why the 'self-interest' ethical framework does not hold water in the case... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

March 2023
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Between Two Minds: The Staglin Family

By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger

Garen Staglin, Founder and Chairman of One Mind, reflected on his life’s work in brain health. As he contemplated stepping down in the next few years, he weighed how to pass along this legacy to his son, Brandon Staglin, the impetus behind and next generation of the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Well-being; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry

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Teaching has been a lifelong passion of mine. As the third generation of academics in my family, I see good teaching as a means to give back and to encourage others to share my passion for discovery. I’ve been very lucky to have many teaching opportunities, both as an... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

of an idea with the potential to solve a problem or address an unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Jan 2019
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The Better Way to Forecast the Future

“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period

Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts make investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details

08 Dec 2010
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Decoding Inside Information

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy & Lukasz Pomorski; Financial Services

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

that vision Extend the reach of your influence by leading through other managers Elevate your leadership style to meet the distinct challenges of leading larger, more dispersed teams Develop strategies for planning View Details

03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

happen and what the solution to their problem is. They could be right, they could be wrong, but you need to bring them along in the journey, you can’t just talk them out of it. It’s very difficult to have... View Details

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2019
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The Secret Life of Supply Chains

suppliers, and seems to have implications for policies that promote innovation and good jobs,” says the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen Mills. For example, the research View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Advancing business as a force for good in the world by helping HBS develop new insights and tools to address key societal challenges Digital Data Design Institute Donors Positioning HBS View Details

Mastering the VC Game

Entrepreneurs who dream of building the next Amazon, Facebook or Google have the opportunity to take advantage of one of the most powerful economic engines the world has ever known: venture capital. To do so, you need to woo, impress, and persuade venture... View Details

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Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

16 Aug 2004
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Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

not something to enter lightly. You need a real, serious, sustained commitment to shoot for the pinnacle—and to defend and advance your position if you attain it." As a value proposition, luxury goods are very sensitive to timing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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