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22 Mar 2017
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3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise. In... View Details

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

can draw on the analytical skills they've developed to reason through an unfamiliar problem. In addition to the cases, we often assign readings to go with the cases. We use these readings to teach theory that the students can then apply in their case analysis. However,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Selling Luxury to Everyone

shifting," she said. Panelist Rory Tahari, creative director and brand designer for Elie Tahari, Ltd.—and wife of designer Elie Tahari—said she saw a clear trend toward higher expectations from... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products

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Zihan Lin

the hands-on, boy-stuff of the mechanical with the mission of medicine." By the time Zi entered the graduate stage of his education, he had a firm focus "on two concentrations: design methodology and medical devices." In... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

academic ventures. Debuting this spring, the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) was designed and will be taught by faculty from HBS, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard’s Faculty of... View Details

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

co-producing knowledge with those who will most benefit from it: the residents of the communities they study. "The common process of thinking is that from over here in our ivory tower at Harvard, we are supposed to find the knowledge,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Dec 2017
News

HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business

Inspired by HBS’s distinctive pedagogy, it would be unlike anything else offered online. In addition to launching its first program, CORe (Credential of Readiness)—which teaches the fundamentals of business—HBS Online has created Certificate Programs, a portfolio of... View Details

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

7 PM – 9 PM EST, 24 Jan 2017

Alumnae Circles Open House: New York 2017

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca

interviews with students in Casablanca, which informed the team’s extensive design thinking process. During their final presentation to their project partner, the HBS students proposed that rather than... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

is substantially lessened. Thomke and Reinertsen, while studying several hundred development projects in the fast-paced integrated circuit (IC) design industry, focused on the efficacy of two production technologies. One technology had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

America were buzzing about Clocky, a clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping when its alarm went off. At that point, the device was just a project that Gauri Nanda, a graduate student at MIT’s Media Lab, had developed for an industrial... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

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Xue (Ken) Yuan

combine textbook knowledge with real-life experience. The way they command the classroom, facilitate discussions, ask questions – they get us to think about things we wouldn’t have considered otherwise.” For Xue, the entire school... View Details

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Whitney Wilson

you’re called because you have a background in the industry, or live near the location of the case. There’s a huge level of preparation.” “The composition of the sections creates the right mix of experiences,” Whitney adds. “How an engineer View Details

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

your values Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values Fashion designer Stella McCartney shows that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive in a case study by Anat Keinan. Demonstrate bottom-line... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

And, it might seem appropriate to ask, how do such philosophical questions relate to marketing? Zaltman's eponymous research tool, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, called ZMET for short, was designed to illuminate exactly these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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When AI Chatbots Help People Act More Human | Working Knowledge

with more empathy and thoroughness—uniquely human service strengths with the potential to positively impact revenue and profitability by making for happier customers. You should not use AI as a one-size-fits-all solution in your business, even when you are View Details

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Mallika Ahluwalia

were looking after four or five kids. Yet there was a lack of sustainability – it was month-to-month without a long-term solution." Integrated at the intersection Mallika's U.N. experience "started me thinking about the joint... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Ink

to create value.” Remixes can include M&As, partnerships, alliances, cross-industry joint ventures, and consortia, but whatever the form, Gomes-Casseres argues that success requires the same three things: The total value created must be more than the sum of its parts;... View Details

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