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- 08 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Get to Know Past New Venture Competition Winners: Everly Health
helped hundreds of thousands of people better understand their health by offering a more convenient, affordable way to get lab testing done. If I had listened to everyone who told me “no” in the beginning, I wouldn’t be here today. This... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
schools. We started talking about the kids that actually weren't coming to school. It was something I was totally unaware of. “We started investigating and talking about why that was. Everyone was required to have a school uniform, and families couldn't often View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may reduce the need for roads and parking, allowing for more green... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
can't be bothered with the details of their business is crazy. —Robert Hargrove in E-Leader Updated advice: Leaders must constantly push the boundaries of established ways of doing business—but they must also know which established practices need to be preserved. They... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
by 30,000 by 2020, using city revenues to subsidize affordable housing, as well as a resolution to preserve a portion of the Mission District, the city's historically Latino neighborhood that has been increasingly gentrified. A city... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
career stage. “I’ve been very fortunate with the opportunities and experiences afforded to me throughout my career, but I still learn from the experiences of other members, just as other members may benefit from the lessons I’ve learned,”... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
focusing on hiring impostors anyway? There are probably plenty of other candidates with more “normal” confidence levels, motivations, and abilities. An organization comprised solely of impostors could be a pretty exhausting, chaotic place. On the other hand, can we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see the steel mills that were its... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
getting lower-cost devices to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them? A $14B market would seem to have ample room for a niche player that focuses on corporate social responsibility while still being profitable." —Allison... View Details
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McKim, Mead & White - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
buildings in Harvard’s Cambridge campus—fanning out from a trapezoidal court that followed the curve of the river. At the center of the court stood Baker Library flanked by two groupings of dormitories. Pedestrians and motorists on either side of the river were View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
School to help provide financial aid to a broad range of talented students who otherwise would be unable to attend HBS. “Commitment to meritocracy is one of our core values as a nation,” explains Mencoff. “Especially in this intensively competitive global economy, we... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When the Netflix series Geek Girl debuted this summer, it quickly became the second most-watched show globally on the platform. Based on the young adult book series by author Holly Smale about... View Details
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
on women’s health in Mexico? In Mexico, 50% of health care spending is out of pocket, and the government system is underfunded and at overcapacity. Only 8% of the population can afford insurance. There are many tech-enabled startups... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make solar View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
crisis management implications when a foodborne illness strikes. Disruption/Technology. We will examine how restaurants are assessing, adopting, affording and maximizing the utility of technological changes such as mobile ordering,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
where Barton had grown up. Somehow he'd expected, without thinking it through, a warm homecoming. A rookie mistake, he thought. I can't afford many of those. He knew the SMA PR staff would also consider this a pretty basic mistake, and... View Details