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14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her challenge and fulfillment while opening doors to new opportunities. Seeking out a challenge Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Nneka developed a passion early in life for contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and the Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium for the course, "Investing for Risk, Return, and Impact," developed with Vikram Gandhi. Paul A. Gompers : Winner of the 2021 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper... View Details

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

get things done." Conant put together a two-year leadership development program that he personally ran, requiring leaders to attend five major sessions of two or three days each, giving them homework and View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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C. Fritz Foley | About

C. Fritz Foley Unit Finance Contact Phone Bio C. Fritz Foley is the Andre R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean (SAD) for External Relations. As SAD, Foley works with ER to enhance alumni engagement, expand opportunities for... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

pharmaceutical giant one day—not creating a company from scratch. But Goble was determined to explore the wide variety of opportunities available to him in his time at HBS, so when he read about a nonprofit life sciences entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

In the meantime, instructors can continue to develop their teaching effectiveness through openness to feedback, and learning by doing in an on-going process of experimentation. Meeting Class Objectives David Garvin Professor Garvin... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details

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From C-Suite to CEO - Alumni

to build your skills. It’s also critical to assess the market. Get to know your industry or sector of interest broadly and deeply, familiarize yourself with the competitive landscape, and develop a point of view outside of your company.... View Details

May 2024
Article

Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare

Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and... View Details

Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Public Policy; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Policy; Income; Environmental Sustainability; Real Estate Industry; United States

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12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which products come and go very quickly.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

started 14 years ago with an email from Franklin Leonard, a development executive in Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, asking a select group of friends to let him know if they’d read any good scripts... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

trade between nations, but the cost is horrendous I remember reading Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat, and thinking that it sounded good in theory, but there would be years, if not decades, of employment pain here in the U.S.”... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce,... View Details

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, deliver customer benefits that are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

event. We felt so loved! Zoe Ofer Year: First Mom of: Mika (16 months) Pre-HBS Industry: Intelligence Unit (Unit 8200) + Lawyer (commercial litigation) + Real Estate Investments Summer Internship: VC and working on a startup What is the... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Kanter says. Gibson, who was not well-known in Miami when she began her startup quest, came across financial and real estate professionals who had never known someone like her. They had trouble seeing a Black woman as someone who could... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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