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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive public works project... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
less.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
classroom, we observed four: Anatomy of a Badass, Startup Bootcamp, Climate Finance, and The Business of Space. Anatomy of a Badass Anatomy of a Badass was inspired by Saint John’s guest participation in Gino and Frei’s Inclusive Leadership class last year; Frei and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
in energy. For example, 100 years ago, half the country worked in agriculture. Now almost no one does. Agriculture has also seen a massive increase in productivity. Some of that is due to mechanization and the use of fossil fuels. But... View Details
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
analysis. G – GO: Africa. Beginning with the MBA Class of 2018, HBS offers a Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO: Africa) to supplement the income of MBA graduates who go on to work in Africa following graduation. The aim is to support HBS... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Commencement 2016 Address | About
thousands of miles to the south, to Antarctica. Over the winter holiday, I was fortunate to travel to this remote and magnificent part of the world. What made the trip truly special was that we were able to share this experience with my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
capture economies of scale. In addition to controlling purchasing, merchandising, and distribution, these managers even control the lighting and temperature at Wal-Mart's 3,500 stores by remote computer. Of course, the spans of control... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
from the core reap many benefits, not the least of which is that they deliver returns that satisfy investors while generating the cash they need to invest in more-radical growth and innovation opportunities. You don't want the guys in the core part of your business to... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how to make remote teams work. If... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
they may fail to notice when the moment is right for action on one path. They may also seem too remote and aloof to their staffs. The best leaders can zoom in to examine problems and then zoom out to look for patterns and causes. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior contributed to the success of individual IC members. The students View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
emotional aspects of schooling. The one thing that this pandemic will help us reevaluate for ourselves is the definition of schooling and learning. This period has demonstrated that it is possible to learn lots of things in a remote... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from sophisticated systems that often result... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the View Details