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- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
implemented by Radiometer since its acquisition by Danaher in 2004 and I’ve seen how much it infiltrates every aspect of how they do work. (There is an HBS case about it!) Overall, the job has gotten off to a great start and I can’t... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
client-facing people when service problems are systematically tolerated. The cape starts to feel heavy when it's overused. Great service, it turns out, is not made possible by running the business harder and... View Details
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog
solid theory of what role NASA will play. And the best place to start building that theory is with NASA’s current flagship program: Artemis. Class session 8: Special session with space entrepreneurs Summary: Panel to be announced Part... View Details
- Profile
Joseph Blair
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Earning my MBA was important to me because I wanted to gain business skills that complemented my engineering background. As an engineer, I was accustomed to analyzing technical problems... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
New Idea: On-Demand Package Delivery
As Paul Moskowitz’s wedding approached last winter, his fiancé started receiving a deluge of gifts at her apartment. At least that was the idea. What she actually received, because she worked late and didn’t have a doorman, was a stream... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
overheads? I recall that in my day a particularly endearing, if mobility-challenged, professor would repeatedly collide with the overhead projector while executing the complex tango steps inherent to case-method facilitation. No such View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
would not want to go to a movie where somebody had told you the ending. The excitement of going to a sports event comes from not knowing who will win. The same is true in business. Entrepreneurs rarely start businesses just for the money.... View Details
- Profile
Alex Slusky
started the program.” The best simulation of business experience Alex pursued the MBA because he had an interest in venture capital and wanted “to find a way to combine technology and strategy – how do we go up a level in business? Where... View Details
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Scott Wu
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to offer Neutrall’s products there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
possibly could.” That was the proverbial “two-by-four whack upside the head” that made me realize we were dealing with a disease. Amy started treatment; soon after, on December 26, she died of an overdose at the facility. Going through... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
First and foremost, innovators are good at associational thinking, or simply associating. They make connections between seemingly unrelated problems and ideas and synthesize new ideas. I would frame associational thinking by asking this... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
We’re really trying to address some of these problems in a holistic fashion. “The opportunities for women-led ventures in Ethiopia are massive. But if you look at the business community, I'd say less than 10% of the ventures are... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
subsequent cognition. Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship Published: December 3, 2008 All else equal, a venture-capital-backed entrepreneur who starts a company that goes public has a 30 percent chance of succeeding in his or her... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number of spare parts shipped... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details