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- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
which is toxic to the kidneys and causes diabetes and hypertension—the two most common reasons people need kidney transplants, ironically. Our drug was specifically designed not to have these side effects. Today in the US, we don’t have... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
course, Eisenmann teaches cases on cloud storage company Dropbox and the social search service Aardvark. Both firms' founders were early practitioners of the lean startup method. The Dropbox team initially announced a bare-bones version... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
joining HBS. Omar Al Mulhem (MBA 2023, Section A), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Sustainable Investing Team at BlackRock BlackRock is one of the world’s leading providers of investment, advisory and risk management solutions.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sonali Bloom
“You’re not a real Jew.” The only other Jewish girl on my middle-school math team scoffed at me. “You’re not really Indian.” My Indian classmates excluded me from the annual Indian fashion show, year after year. “Don’t worry about them –... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
designed to be big enough that forgoing the bulk purchase to buy a smaller number of days implied a cost of credit at least as high as a typical payday loan. Seeing a lot of drivers who prefer to buy smaller bundles would imply they might... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
while the results of this initial experiment had been significant to neuroscience, Karmarkar's team also wanted to show that their research could have real-world implications for retailers—a direct effect on whether a consumer decided to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
more than 250,000 invitees, resulting in 150 research ideas and hypotheses. The goal of opening up idea generation and disaggregating the different stages of the research process was to expand the number and range of people who might participate. Today, seven View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Apply frameworks, tools, and goal-setting and tracking exercises to your own strategic initiatives Evaluate and elevate your team’s management of the core tensions of strategy execution, including how to balance growth, profit, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
spread such efforts, YALP is slowly but surely beginning to see on-the-ground results of the partnerships and innovation it’s designed to foster. In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, phrases like income inequality and... View Details
- Profile
Cait Haught
Tackling Inequality. "The school had a few courses on nonprofit management," explains Cait, "but few opportunities to directly connect with nonprofits." Designed for direct engagement, the class combines four weeks of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
Digital Innovation and Strategy Design Thinking and Innovation Digital Marketing Strategy Disruptive Strategy Dynamic Teaming Economics for Managers Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurship Essentials... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
a platform designed to collect and clarify data about clients’ water usage in their supply chains. “This is the moment to be building a water company,” Leni said in an interview with Climate Stories. Leni and Taryn named the company after... View Details
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
later gets reported, then the company can say, “We addressed it, we fired the people involved, we created systems so it wouldn't happen again.” Lambert: What changes are you seeing in corporate liability law? Soltes: Companies are increasingly incentivized to View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
ICSS Journal Making Boston Stronger By: Leonard, Dutch, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole, and Philip B. Heymann Abstract—In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a team from Harvard University carried out extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to encourage investing in businesses... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews
important for review sites such as Yelp to post chronological reviews that reflect current conditions, since hygiene can vary wildly based on new management and staff, the research team says. “Review sites should be careful in making sure... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
terms of responding to potential threats, Microsoft consistently plays to its strengths—its overall platform strategy, its existing knowledge base, and its process of componentization. For example, when developing the new Internet Explorer browser, the development... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions be thoughtfully View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details