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03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

Enterprise Tracks, many students started their journey of entrepreneurship several months ago inspired by the belief that “one simple idea can change everything.” With kernels of an idea in mind, they tapped into the HBS resources and... View Details

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

"a natural experiment," about 1,800 landless families (organized by a Catholic priest) occupied the area in 1981, believing it was owned by the state. In fact, it was made up of privately held tracts of land belonging to 13... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

consequences of our actions—not only for financial and physical capital but also for human, social, and natural capital.” HBS Professor George Serafeim discusses impact-weighted accounts during the first virtual talk in the HBS Club of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

business boot camp. Around the time of our last reunion, his extensive, twenty-year study of our class culminated in The New Rules, a book that not only documented our careers but also revealed the cataclysmic nature of the changes taking... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

extraordinarily detailed maps. Mercy Remembered: Commemorating the Jubilee Year of Mercy Proclaimed by Pope Francis by Rev. Richard Berg and Greg Hadley (OPM 5) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Hadley, the author of numerous books on Christianity, reflects... View Details

28 Apr 2025
Blog Post

How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

people, few of us put as much effort in onboarding those new hires.” As today's workforces become increasingly varied in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, new dimensions — and sometimes new challenges — are naturally introduced:... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-025.pdf Entrepreneurship in the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2022
Supplement

Single Earth: Science White Paper Supplement

By: Rembrand Koning and Emer Moloney

Science White Paper prepared by Single.Earth to give an overview of the models and solutions it has developed. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Natural Resources; Pollution; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Market Timing; Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Estonia

Citation

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

value to those with the resources to defend its ownership, a kind of survival of the fittest philosophy? Yet another school of thought asks whether these issues are overblown. D. R. Elliott commented that "much of the internet... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

the few instances that they are, the data are not standardized, not interoperable, and not readily accessible to clinicians, researchers, or policymakers. While such barriers to easy health information exchange are hardly unique to India, the greenfield View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

warrior mode, where I just braced myself to hear the news of the diagnosis and was very strangely matter-of-fact in my questions, just trying to understand what is the stage, what is the action plan? It was only when she told me that View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Entrepreneurship at HBS

newest generation of HBS alumni is helping chart the future. Due in part to the imagination and determination of these pioneers and to shifts in worldwide economic conditions, the very nature of general management has undergone dramatic... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the company’s attention and View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

people to help you in areas, work with resource providers, and so forth. So, there’s a natural dovetailing between HBS’s focus on general management and entrepreneurship. Even if students are not going to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

situation of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital markets. This confusing state of affairs has View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

01 Jun 2007
News

Alumni Books

right assistance), “Rebuild heroic stature” (spread the true nature of the adversity), “Prove your mettle” (regain trust and credibility), and “Rediscover the heroic mission” (clear the past and chart the future). What Made Jack Welch... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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