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- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
moderate-income consumers, D2D develops and supports innovative new products and policies that make it easier for people to save. Among its many initiatives, D2D offers individuals and organizations (private employers, the military,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
life-sized, contemporaneous individuals? I think our age has many figures of great impact in addition to Bill Gates. Other interesting people of his era have risen to the fore, individuals like Oprah... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
alliances are built. By motivations, we mean the conscious values and explicit purposes that initially drive individuals and organizations to explore the possibility of working across sectors. It is vital that each partner have clarity... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010)
of this magnitude, and my name doesn't resonate with locals as being powerful like some of the long-standing wealthy families in Chicago. If I sense that an individual does not 'believe,' I will typically just challenge them to try and... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
The future of e-commerce will be shaped by a new generation of companies that can consistently deliver convenience, information, entertainment, and savings -- an as-yet-unrealized package that will have an impact summed up by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Results, published in a recent working paper, showed that the number of promotional spots viewed had a positive impact on the “match” between viewer and show. Essentially, the more promotions they had seen, the more likely viewers were to... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
define the practice of management. They also delve into some of the most challenging issues facing society. As these individuals and our students engage with each other, the effect is contagious: our students learn that leadership in the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Energy & Environment Club
focused clubs to learn about the history of the club, the impact and mission, and the types of programming that members can participate in. Having been in Energy sector for the last eight years, I developed a deeply rooted belief in the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
the power of community to be a place to create joy-- from that experience growing up, from being in East Boston, and from research that says that the happiness of the friend of your friend can impact your happiness if that person lives... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have a profound and lasting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
most effective use of business resources to help solve social- sector problems," explained BLSS chair, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "We examined what business can and can't do well and the outcomes and impacts of business activism... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
program. The second, or transactional, stage begins when the organizations start to regard each other as partners. For City Year and Timberland, this transition occurred when leaders of both groups realized they had similar visions of how to make a positive View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
as sustaining creativity on the job, entrepreneurial thinking in established organizations, and the link between individual creativity and organizational innovation. While the course outlines the components necessary for View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Scott M. Sperling, MBA 1981 & Laurene M. Sperling, MBA 1982
enables us to help people through this school, which has had an enormous impact on our lives," says Scott. "HBS was very formative for us in contributing to our success in so many areas. Helping others go through that is enormously... View Details
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
How much of your product do you share? Does your business model extract value from a core product or a portfolio of complementary products?" Most academic research has focused on individual contributions to OSS, but this working... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
investigate how changes in the management of the organ waiting list might impact the donation rate. We find that an organ allocation policy giving priority on waiting lists to those who previously registered as donors has a significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
organizational culture can be established and communicated. For example, an organization may have an environment that encourages casual dress to promote individuality and comfort, it could fund advanced education and training, or it could... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
measurement system will have little impact if the results are not fully discussed. Results should be monitored regularly and used to identify areas of weakness, address the plans and systems in place, and establish new initiatives to... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein