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- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
over a shared love of India (we both lived there at various times), startups, and the natural foods space. We even realized that we had a mutual friend who then turned out to be one of our first investors when we started Hilma! So today... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
career change at that point and why you decided to join the nonprofit? Ingersoll: There's a lot of different things all sort of converging at once. I heard Robert Reich speak. He was a former Secretary of Labor, and he said that if we don't fix these View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is... View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
development projects around the globe. The study, by Harvard Law School student Ashwin Kaja and HBS professor Eric Werker, is detailed in the working paper "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank" [PDF]. Theirs is the first known study to empirically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
co-researchers wanted to find out whether sustainable investment capital is flowing to companies that are in the best position to solve the urgent and complex problems created by climate change. In their new working paper, The... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
love didn’t last, though, especially when Kalanick defied those same cities when they tried to enforce local laws or when Uber would start a service without municipal permission. (Uber argued it was a technology company connecting riders... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
become more and more of a relevant problem over the past eight years or so.” US politics are heating up ahead of the November presidential election as voters evaluate candidates Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
internship for the summer? I’m obsessed with education-to-employment, meaning the emerging field of models (nonprofit, for-profit, or government) trying to better connect people to good jobs. Pre-HBS, I helped start a nonprofit in this... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
banking. There are three reasons why. First, many of the problems innovators are trying to solve are focused on gaps in banking services, while many of the challenges these innovators face stem from the fact that they are not banks.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
By all accounts, September 11, 2001, was the worst day in the history of the airline industry. But that didn’t stop Jim Whitehurst (MBA ’94), then a partner at The Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta, from joining Delta Airlines that day as the firm’s acting treasurer.... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
compelling. It is a fun and engaging learning experience. I was 28 when I started and was concerned about the opportunity cost. But, at HBS, there are financial resources available to make the transition possible. I became a Goldsmith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
problems are worse than they’ve ever been. Where do you see the US patent system in 5 or 10 years? LC: In a good world, some of the things that we have proposed for cleaning up the patent system itself and for fixing the patent litigation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
James Reinhart
Reinhart and his team shifted their focus to children’s clothing, they had an epiphany. “We started with men’s and women’s shirts,” Reinhart explained in a TechCrunch interview. “It was a great story but not a great... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
Davis started considering more flexible work options in 2018, she and Cheney discussed where and how she might be able to work with Prokanga to address the social impact space. “It never occurred to me to work in human capital during... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
raised an estimated $7 million over the years for the five schools in its immediate area. No, Gehrke didn’t describe a burning ambition to run a flea market in her HBS admissions essay. “The path you start out on is certainly not always... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
future for America’s communities and, by extension, for itself. Whether big or small, companies looking for a place to start can create a volunteer community health task force to brainstorm ideas for making a difference. They should... View Details