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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

  • May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort
Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States
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  • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco
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  • 2008
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Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

and marketplaces, including both advertising-supported and fee-based services. Today, CNET Networks' online properties attract more than 66 million Web users each month ranging form C-level executives and IT professionals to technology or... View Details
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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Knowing Your Students Preparing to Teach Getting Started Developing Instructor Style Shaping the Learning Environment Knowing Your Students Planning a Class Session Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment... View Details
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Women’s Leadership Summit - Alumni

Hall! Resources Post Summit engagement Opportunities Following the HBS Women’s Summit, there are numerous ways to stay connected to each other, to HBS and to ensure you are leveraging all the resources available to you to navigate your life and View Details
  • 06 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS

The first thing most people think of when they hear “Harvard Business School” is most certainly not “arts” or “music”. I mean, that’s what music school is for, right? To be honest, when I decided to apply to business school, continuing to View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

returned to their organizations to lead inspiring projects that developed wonderful, strategic Balanced Scorecards. But not all of these companies were able to sustain the energy to deliver the results we reported in Chapter 1. What helps... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • August 2021
  • Case

Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare

By: Ranjay Gulati, Aseem Shukla and Reva Nohria
When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman knew firsthand how taxing it could be to manage such an unrelenting disease. Livongo set out to empower people... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Industry; Scaling; Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

“It’s who responds to those messages and how they get responded to that really hadn’t been looked at.” Stark numbers point to uncomfortable conclusions The study examined communication between medical professionals and more than 39,000... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

benefiting patients and communities. She said, “My future professional aim is to develop experience and expertise at the intersection of medicine, policy, and management.” Mimi Sax. Mimi comes to HBS from... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

Workers test the NASA-engineered capsule used to lift trapped miners to the surface. Hugo Infante/Government of Chile via Wikimedia Commons (Editor's Note: Amy Edmondson advises managers to think of teams as a verb, "teaming," which means to proactively build and View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Blog Post

Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) on Finding Entrepreneurial Success with HBS Resources

Kosuda and Harvard Law School student Patrick Ho in the Commercializing Science course at HBS. The course brings together graduate students from across Harvard University to build viable business ventures.  Vaxess Technologies, a company working to make vaccines... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

colleagues and share feedback in ways that enable them to develop and deliver Take charge of your professional development as you navigate the challenges of transitioning from... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

retirement, Amabile and colleagues found that, for many, the transition begins smoothly enough but then develops into retirees questioning their own identity and puzzling over how to structure their days as their familiar work life fades... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

The Art of Perseverance and Resilience: Reapplying to HBS

persevere and continue to grow and improve are often the ones who have what it takes to succeed. My path to HBS – including my two rejections – allowed me to experience failure, grow to overcome this failure, and finally succeed. To me, these lessons in personal View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

healthier alternative candy bar snack. Business Track, 2025 Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Business Track Winner Accelerating AI model development for physical AI. HydroHaul Eli Litchman (MBA 2025) Fenil... View Details