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- 06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics
academia. The three areas have more in common than many think, Laidler-Kylander says. Best practices in leadership and management are applicable everywhere, but nonprofits come with additional organizational challenges. There’s often a disconnect between the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
million a year, and which critics argue is both financially and environmentally unsustainable. In the early 1970s, the city switched from metal trash cans to plastic bags, thereby establishing what Cohen has called a “rat nutrition program.” In the modern era, modest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
trained as a parent peer coach for families, is using his years of business experience to build the tools he wished had been available when his family was confronting addiction and is sharing his own View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
designed an innovative field-study course called Consulting and Management Practice. The course provided student teams with intensive faculty coaching on projects with actual clients. Turner cites the course as his "most rewarding View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
technological aspects of business. They want to integrate the technical training and experience they have with a broader general management perspective to lead those businesses forward. I expect interest in these sectors to grow. How has... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to encourage investing in businesses... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Come Sail Away
When Michael Sard (MBA 2018) arrived at HBS, he owned about 50 Hawaiian shirts. “It was one of the few items in a man’s closet that could have a ritual to it around going out, like a tuxedo does,” he says. Purchase options, however, seemed limited to two extremes:... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Pentagon decided they should collect my college tuition: $51,000. That was a transformative experience for me. It played out in the New York Times and USA Today. There were calls for kicking ROTC off campus at Harvard and MIT. I didn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
ended up discriminating against particular groups of guests. That gives us fascinating insights about how something seemingly innocuous like web design has enormous potential to lead users in either a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
the challenge. “When Elizabeth shared her experience and her ideas, I basically said, ‘How can I help?’” Klein says. “To me there was such a compelling need.” Many other HBS sectionmates supported the startup with seed funding to launch... View Details
- 01 May 2013
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Raphael Geismar, MBA 2006
58 years after he did meant something important to me.” The HBS experience proved “very different from anything I had known in France,” he says. “With professors, the relationships weren’t ‘topdown,’ but more like with peers, people who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
on how to design and execute high-quality experiments for practical purposes. This book is a hands-on manual for crafting and conducting useful experiments in real-life... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Center facilitated the case “Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse” about the free platform where users come together in immersive 3-D experiences. EUROPE RESEARCH CENTER (Paris) Leadership approaches for a sustainable future The... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
table. “Our user stories fire me up on why we’re doing this,” says Campbell. Monroy agrees, citing the additional satisfaction of building a company culture. “We’re creating the place where I would like to work,” he says. “Having the... View Details