Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

Schultz. Wall Street demanded increasing growth, internationalization, better productivity, and new products. And Schultz's successors responded by opening up to five new stores per day; extending business to many new foreign markets; introducing a faster, higher View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

that the rate of change in terms of content of work has been accelerating, and the capacity of the traditional skill system—K–12, college, and other degree-granting institutions—hasn’t moved at the pace of technology or business... View Details

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

ICCP Group has offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, one of the largest event facilities in the Philippines, to be converted into the first temporary health care COVID-19 facility with a 500-bed capacity called WTC: Heal as... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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 impact... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

central tension of the case.” Philanthropists looking to help fight COVID-19 in the US may want to evaluate a community health model similar to Last Mile’s. “The argument to philanthropists would be that we need to vastly increase our View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

Nations High Commissioner for Refugees settlers, whose number is determined by an annual cap set in advance. These refugees are distributed to 10 resettlement agencies, each of which runs a network of local affiliates that have their own predetermined View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

Profile

Jonathan Bailey

improving goverance and building the capacity of the private sector at the same time. Few people seemed to understand both sides." Seeking a career "bridging both perspectives," Jonathan entered the joint HBS/Harvard... View Details

Profile

Danelle Radney

Porter fifteen years ago.” As Director of Strategic Initiatives, Danelle will create a master plan for corporate relations. “It’s exactly what I came to HBS to do – become a consultant helping to build the capacity of nonprofit... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)

in terms of its capacity for consumer impact, social change, and policy influence." Langer's unflagging dedication to her work and those whom she serves would be remarkable under any circumstances. But incredibly, five years ago, her... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Health, Social Assistance

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

support 10k+ social intrapreneurs to drive sustainability and equity initiatives within their corporations. We have completed our first pilot program supporting 21 fellows from 11 countries through capacity building and community... View Details

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

Feerick was determined to build a successful for-profit education company. While working with Feeney, he saw his mentor’s generosity toward educational institutions. But Feerick also realized that “the challenge of making education accessible to all is beyond the View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2000
News

A Message from Dean Clark

programs require. The quality of our students is also at the core of what HBS is about. As a community and a school, we have a special responsibility to reach out -- through fellowships and other forms of financial assistance -- to make an HBS education possible for... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

Exley wanted to see how far people’s capacity for self-justification could be pushed—whether it held up in cases where there was no uncertainty at all. “There are hundreds and thousands of charities out there, and choosing to give to one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and efficiently. My summer internship... View Details

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's energy think tank polled investment... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

shareholders? A: CEOs perceive integrative relationships as strategic alliances and investments that generate significant benefits to the companies. Those benefits vary from case to case but encompass superior capacity to attract,... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

Airlines and a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs, “the education is absolutely fantastic—the capacities to analyze, to understand finance and marketing and human resources, and that spirit of leadership. It’s all there. And when you come... View Details

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Mobility Policy | About

helper motor, or a non-pedal bicycle which has a motor, with a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty (50) cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission, and which is capable of a maximum speed of no more than thirty (30) miles per hour... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)

group KBB, which bought the chain in 1990, however, Eyler immediately began implementing what he calls a "back to the future" strategy. "It was a matter of looking at what had made FAO Schwarz great in the past -- its capacity to create... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

26 Jun 2025
News

The Vinyl Revival

learned, understandably, is that as vinyl had gone out of fashion in the '80s and leading into the '90s, most of the pressing plants, a lot of which had been owned by major record labels, had closed. We'd moved to the cassette format, then to CDs, and suddenly there... View Details

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