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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
complement to carry certain aspects of the selling job that were very expensive to deliver in the past. After a direct sales pitch, much follow-on work can now be more... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
co-op program for potential MBA students? How about greater sharing of teaching or administrative talent, similar to what IBM and other organizations have done in the past—in this case, sabbaticals with the... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
Coronavirus Is Going to Tear Your Office in Two
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
What equity means to your career and company
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways View Details
- January 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved
By: John J-H Kim and Amram Migdal
In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education technology nonprofit Rumie had distributed thousands of computer tablets preloaded with collections of thousands of pieces of curated educational content to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in some of the most... View Details
Keywords: Edtech; Education Technology; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit; Education Startup; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Education Industry; Canada; Africa
Kim, John J-H, and Amram Migdal. "Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved." Harvard Business School Case 316-140, January 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
Executive search firms can be powerful allies in a senior-level job search. While they can play a vital role in helping you find your next role, it’s important to understand how they operate and how best... View Details
- 21 Jul 2016
- News
Women More Likely Than Men To Lead In Times Of Crisis
- August 2016
- Case
CEO Succession at Cisco (A): From John Chambers to Chuck Robbins
By: Boris Groysberg, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Annelena Lobb
A smooth transition from former CEO John Chambers to new CEO Chuck Robbins had put Cisco in a position of strength. Looking back, the board reflected on what they had done well and what they might have done differently, and pondered whether another company might be... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, J. Yo-Jud Cheng, and Annelena Lobb. "CEO Succession at Cisco (A): From John Chambers to Chuck Robbins." Harvard Business School Case 417-031, August 2016.
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
an incentive is to turn around the timing of the reward, handing it out immediately after an employee excels at a particular task, rather than dangling it beforehand. “In this way, you can use timing to your... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
As an entrepreneur, how confident are you that you fully understand your customer’s pain points or their job to be done? Entrepreneurs I first meet tend to start selling me on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
- May 2021
- Article
Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics
By: Efraim Benmelech, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou and Joshua Krieger
Investment in intangible capital such as R&D has increased dramatically since the 1990s. However, productivity growth remains sluggish in recent years. One potential reason is that a significant share of the increase in intangible investment is geared toward consumer... View Details
Keywords: Drug Development; Research and Development; Investment Return; Demographics; Pharmaceutical Industry
Benmelech, Efraim, Janice Eberly, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Joshua Krieger. "Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics." AEA Papers and Proceedings 111 (May 2021): 336–340.
- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
systems. Not much happens from pure culture conversations because they don’t result in a clear idea of what needs to change and how it will be changed to reinforce key... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
our way to Shad, we struck up a conversation about recruiting as most RCs do around that time of year. Dan knew that I was trans because I had done a MyTake earlier in the semester on National Coming Out... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
Tips for Applying to Business School
There’s no doubt that applying to business school can be a stressful process. Researching MBA programs, taking the GMAT, writing essays, chasing after recommenders (often while also trying View Details
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
The patient is weak, the situation is serious, but a cure is on the horizon—if we think differently about the underlying problem. Specifically, we need to innovate in health care just the way it is done in... View Details
- 16 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries