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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor in the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
neither of them were successful in getting their dissertation articles published. We also asked them to reflect on the twists and turns of academic publishing, and we asked Max Bazerman to integrate these reflections. Together, we hope to spark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Program Policies - HBS Online
additional completion requirements, please review the Program Specific Certificate Requirements below. All work must be the participants own work and in their own words. Plagiarism is not tolerated, nor is cutting and pasting text from the internet or from any View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
of detection and enforcement. We study different enforcement methods using a novel dataset generated from two experiments run by a stock-photography agency. We find that a substantial reduction in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
the most successful restructuring, and which company the worst? A: This is a hard one to answer, because the restructurings that I analyzed were intended to address a variety of different problems and challenges, and entailed a range of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
public sector is dynamic, generating possibilities that neither sector alone could create. Reconciling social equity and economic justice with the profit motive continues to be one of our world’s greatest challenges, and my studies helped... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Rebecca Greenbaum
marketing or finance, the case method challenges me to speak up; it forces me to be a contributing member of the class." The HBS experience also expands her horizons. "I grew up in a homogenous environment," says Rebecca.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- Profile
Darrin Rahn
two-and-a-half years each at Target and General Mills, finding his "lane" in "marketing, with an expertise in food and beverages." After working his way up the food supply chain, from farm-to-fork, Darrin wanted to... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
Pentagon, a panoply of books and articles, and a pair of successful business ventures, he considers his teaching at HBS to be the highlight of his career. "I never got over the excitement of being in the classroom," says Fox, who first became enamored with the case... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Holmberg
restructure human resources, consolidate facilities, and improve intelligence collection from the general public, he was able to “use business skills in a public-sector kind of way.” Making issues personal After a few years with the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to small telecom companies. AirFox was generating revenue and had a pipeline of interested customers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
government for responding to disasters. We also find evidence suggesting that voters only respond to rainfall and government relief efforts during the year immediately preceding the election. In accordance with these electoral incentives, governments appear to be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
in economic theory, development policy, and general management to become a more effective development professional.” While thrilled to be accepted into the HBS/HKS joint-degree program, Raji had to confront the challenges of financing... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
business, across the different types and functions of business,” he says. “The case method made learning exciting and instilled a problem-solving focus.” After earning his MBA as a Baker Scholar and spending two years with the Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- Web
Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
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John Rogers
opportunities in the field. I found that program at HBS. The required first year curriculum, coupled with the case method approach, created a powerful learning environment built upon the diverse backgrounds of my classmates. The elective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European... View Details