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- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
Silverthorne: Talk a little bit about the origins of the series. Youngme Moon: First of all, I'm a listener of podcasts, and when I started listening to them, I was delighted by how they sort of seamlessly fit into these little nooks and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
confident about and what you need to work on." According to how the points are allocated, the app sorts the user into one of five basic negotiating styles, derived from Wheeler's past research (see chart) each with its own strengths and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
activity was cyclical in the way that the weather was cyclical with changing seasons. Even the vocabulary of "barometers" and "cycles" was carried over from meteorology to economic prediction. Forecasting, through the use of statistics and economic charts, provided a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
constrained by its prior thinking about the industry and what its strengths were. It sort of said, "We have a razor/razorblade business model, and the way that we make money is through selling film, so we need to find a way to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
International, was a pioneer in the evolution of microfinance. It began in 1961 as a sort of pre-Peace Corps program working on community development with the poor in Latin America. In the 1970s it experimented with and developed a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for moderate-income people, including police, firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve."... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
people buy the product again from that channel and make sure we keep driving that metric. How did you decide to take the leap? Jen and I went to Whole Foods and bought all sorts of purees and juices and extracts and some bottles we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
So what we’re saying is, OK, if people are going to buy homes with low down payments, we need to recognize that these sorts of mortgages are riskier. Regulators should limit the use of adjustable-rate mortgages for these loans, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
resuscitate securitization, we should utilize off-balance-sheet entities but with a transparent process and capital charges that are based on actual risks. We want banks to disclose their potential liabilities to these entities and to put capital behind these risks.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
couple of students to help me sort out how new technology is affecting their lives at HBS. Immediately, they mention the Course Platform (see sidebar below). This wondrous-sounding intranet for the HBS community contains not only their... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
help with these problems. Somehow this bridge has to be built,” says Goodwin, who until earlier this month was CEO of Executives Without Borders (ExecWB), a sort of facilitator for corporate social responsibility. (Goodwin just announced... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
hundreds of these sorts of trips and events every year.” Gordon has seen the possibilities of this market. In April 2016, CET brought 330 Netflix employees to Havana for the company’s quarterly business review. More than 300 Spotify... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
think this false narrative has been perpetuated for so long and by so many prominent CEOs and companies? Most people aren't trying that hard in my opinion. They're making a half sort of effort at it. They might be going to the best... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
what should be looked at with skepticism.” Massie recalls one of his HBS professors once joking that entrepreneurship is finding ways to do things that you want using other people's resources. “I identify in many ways with being an entrepreneur,” he says. “As an... View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Adds Paine: "Of course we recognize that there are serious obstacles to the view we recommend," including a lack of structure, tools, and incentives within businesses to do the sort of work that's needed, and a lack of skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
the drivers of that change? What are the obstacles? And what does that imply for all sorts of players in that energy space, both traditional firms and all the new technologies that already exist and have to grow, and the new technologies... View Details
- Web
For Guests - Commencement 2025
water stations for guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donate leftover food to Food for Free ; provide waste sorting stations to divert usable resources from trash into the recycle and compost (which is anaerobically digested)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the rest of the day interacting with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
like for you as an artist in these socially distant corona-times? Madame Gandhi: I think in the producer community, the sort of ongoing joke is that we’ve been preparing for this moment our whole life. I think the solitude of being in... View Details