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Staff Catering Guidelines | About

pre-approved by the department Business Manager. There may be occasional scenarios where it makes sense for HBS to pay for a meal for HBS INTERNAL employees only, particularly when cross-departmental collaboration and networking View Details

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

opportunities and risks will they create for business leaders? What ethical choices will they force business leaders to confront? In November 2022, the introduction of ChatGPT brought the potential and power of Generative AI into public... View Details

21 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

investment standpoint, the cost of emissions and resource scarcity, particularly water, is largely yet to been priced in, and I believe there are plenty of strong buying opportunities in many markets. Real... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

18 Apr 2018
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Into the Light

Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly... View Details

07 Jan 2016
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Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

water and energy efficiency in their buildings so they can reduce the carbon footprint that they are causing. We found that many of our customers implement new clean technology to reduce energy cost and water View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

allowing him and his team to scan Xerox's technology base and identify investment opportunities that might otherwise have been missed. 38 This structure was called Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). Fumbling the Future was published in... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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Summer Venture in Management | MBA

Summer Venture in Management The Summer Venture in Management Program is an educational program designed to increase opportunity in business education for high-potential college students making an impact in their school or community.... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so that their View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

description when I started did not include the word “alumni.” Today alumni engagement is central to what we do. Starting in 2018, BEI organized seven regional alumni events in cities around the country, each tailored to the specific risks and View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

The commitment to research that influences pedagogy, theory, and practice is inherent to HBS’s identity. The first field study, conducted in 1911 under the School’s Bureau of Business Research, comprised a comparative examination of the View Details

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

expensive. How can health care organizations change this? One key is to prioritize quality improvement over cost cutting. By harnessing IT to help design better clinical practices, it’s possible to achieve better patient outcomes and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Karibu Nyaggah

will combat injustice through education and the private sector. With humility, I will build bridges connecting people to their dreams. With joy, I will harness creativity to reveal Beauty. America has been the staging ground. As it turns out, my greatest View Details

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

integrated and mechanized. While its single-minded focus on cost minimization led to spectacular market success for a time, the resulting inflexibility made it difficult for the company to respond to market changes. This created an View Details