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10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

not confident, and pessimistic, which potentially leads to mental health issues, and that these feelings could be traced back to the absence of a loving environment when they were a child. A person’s life experience is irreversible, but... View Details

16 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

capacity of different hospitals can be readily compared. As measurement and investment experts, FASB’s governors are capable of and motivated to fashion a standard that clearly addresses this issue. Their focus would be to protect the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and established Internet players eager to put their View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

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Wilder House | About

House is also home to the Global Experience Office, which administers the global immersion portion of the required first-year Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, where... View Details

02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

when they were randomly assigned to wear them (Experiment 1b). Experiment 2 shows that the effects of wearing counterfeit sunglasses extend beyond the self, influencing judgments of other people's unethical behavior. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

business and policy realms. Climate is a space where you need to lean into policies to shape incentives, which can, in turn, create incentives for new business models and growth opportunities. The IRA is a great example of how policy actions can catalyze private View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

Dimensions of leadership The subject of leadership permits opposite conclusions to be drawn from the same observations and data... 24 May 2021 HBS Working Knowledge Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource? 29 May 2020 Center for Sustainable View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

finding the right balance of interests for their shareholders, customers, and employees. Cote received a lot of pushback from Wall Street analysts and some members of his own staff for his decision not to conduct layoffs and continuing to View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

companies can set the right incentives and time horizons for investments and create a robust innovation infrastructure in the process. Buy the book: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

reality is that we don’t really know if commercial space flight will ultimately be a money maker, how many competitors will fit in the market, or what demand will be for consumers taking off on space vacations after the initial enthusiasm wears off. Will this be a mass... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

me, ‘Success has many mothers.’ ” Working in the ministry and understanding the bureaucratic hurdles facing entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved making the ideological case for natural products. This often... View Details