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Chris Wilson-Byrne

the course cases and in his relationships with section mates, is how the way one presents an idea can be as important as the idea itself. "In order to make things work," he says, "you have to consciously come up with a View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Turning Point: Sparking Change

Gillette, Pillsbury, and L’Oréal. In 2001, I launched The ComfortCake Company, selling pound cakes based on my original recipes to customers ranging from United Airlines to Walmart. But teaching was always at the back of my mind as a potential profession—the... View Details

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Field Course: Advanced Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

New Ventures Competition; the iF Gold Design Award; and a Blavatnik Fellowship. Another team launched its innovation in thirty clinics. Students can expect to: Review their existing business, opportunities, and challenges, and develop View Details

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

rules need enforcement.” The current Chinese-US trade negotiation provides a real-life test of these ideas. For example, there have been discussions about China phasing out ownership requirements over time that could reduce the amount of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

testing and implementing quantitative strategies could become much easier. That could make it tougher for quant managers by introducing more competition, or it could help them by introducing less... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog

in Health Care” (Course 2815, Fall Q1), which is a prerequisite to this course. Students can expect to: Review their existing business plan , its opportunities and challenges, and develop strategies for sustained success , including View Details

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

study with Deniz Aydin, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School. Test case in Turkey To test how small firms manage and use their debt, Aydin and Kim turned to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

capacity, such as serving on non-profit boards, as a major donor, or in consulting roles. Educational Objectives Enhance your ability to critically analyze social enterprises and understand how to lead and scale them effectively. Learn how to design and implement View Details

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? As an intern at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), I am spending the summer working on Regional Malaria... View Details

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Field Course: Startup Operations - Course Catalog

This course is designed to provide hands-on guidance through the early stages of building your business. Students will test assumptions and hypotheses to evolve their product, build their strategic and operating roadmaps, create... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

From Das’s Desk

life’s challenges with their partner. Purpose and values. How to navigate life’s milestones in meaningful, intentional, and ethical ways. Lifelong reflection. Strategies for building introspection and growth into their master plan. Where... View Details

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Who Will Call the Shots in Stakeholder Capitalism? At one time in my checkered academic career I studied, researched, and published papers about interorganizational management. Specifically, I was interested in measuring the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

moment launched Weeks’s career, and it also had a deep impact on Corning’s future as a successful innovator in materials science. The first in his family to go to college, Weeks thrived at HBS. The case method—“pretend doing,” as he calls it—gave him a way to View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

capabilities or prepare for growth. Provide opportunities for selected small business partners to participate in in-house training programs or have access to online management tools. Serve as test sites for small companies with a... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

are family owned, Indian corporations, and Indian divisions of international corporations—new insights and strategies that help them take advantage of the opportunities and overcome the challenges they might encounter as leaders. “In... View Details

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