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26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

for this scenario: take one little piece of information or advice from a variety of different sources to piece together your own conclusion on what works best for you. I will point to a few comments that were consistent across a variety... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Blog Post

2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders

and the first Black woman in 1969. That’s quite a gap. By highlighting Black women we’re hoping to celebrate their successes and push the school forward on its journey towards equality.” The opening keynote session was a candid... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

countries. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf Open vs. Integrated Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Confinement Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Abstract We present a simple formal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

corporate web site and all of the technology distributed inside the organization. While the web site is essentially the open door to the business, you still have to build the other capabilities using the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2020
News

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

to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they cannot charge their phones. HSSI is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2022
News

I Gave at the Office

the spectrum, and then everyone else is in between. Certainly, we’d like to try to shift the distribution of generosity toward the generous side. To do so, I often ask: How do people develop excuses not to give? Then I try to explore ways... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2006
News

One-on-One with Jeff Hicks

programming, so you have to give me your attention. The reality is that you don’t have to give me your attention anymore. I have to earn it. What makes CP+B different? We don’t think of ourselves as an advertising agency in the typical sense. CP+B is a company that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

as well as opportunities? Khanna: Here's an example. Let's think about the sourcing of talent. A business school in some sense is an institution that, in addition to training and teaching people to think about their role in society,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Africa Business Club

approximately 100 members, and our membership profile is very diverse. We pride ourselves on being a club that is open to anyone who is interested in Africa, regardless of where you are from or whether you have any prior exposure to... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother

industry. Before RMI, I worked for a distributed generation developer that specializes in combined heat and power and ground source heat pumps where I was part of their analytics team, constructing... View Details

20 Feb 2013
News

Thanking Veterans Online

Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts and other... View Details

Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal of constraints associated with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

upper Amazon, they brought people a taste of America, along with the promise of freedom and prosperity. The end of the Cold War signaled victory for Brand America. As closed economies opened up to foreign trade and investment, Brand... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
News

Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

and institutions," noted Merton in his opening remarks. He then discussed the modern contracting technologies underlying popular new financial products that are being used in myriad ways to serve households and corporations. Merton... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

01 Dec 2001
News

Navigating Success in Volatile Times

Citigroup's Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, prefaced his opening address on Friday evening with a moving account of his return to Lower Manhattan following the destruction of Citigroup's offices at 7 World... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

entitled to receive. The case includes the story of one widow who couldn't cash a government check; she was unable to open a bank account because she lacked the proper documentation. "You are basically denied almost everything if you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

strategy and organizational management. Products are being developed through open innovation, with input from people connected to each other and the company only through a common interest—and electronic media. Virtually every company on... View Details