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- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit View Details
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Videos - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
category," Sadun says. "The reality is that IT is a huge, heterogeneous set of technologies." Similarly, when examining issues such as organization and productivity, industry and academic studies historically tend to treat... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Mifflin Company, 1918. Full text available as a networked resource. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Exhibit of Locomotives by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Illinois , May-October 1893. Philadelphia: Baldwin... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
It was wonderful to see so many of you at the recent Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Critical to the mission of the School, these annual events provide networking opportunities while offering a dynamic continuing... View Details
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
forthcoming article in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, it is true that a star's past performance indicates future performance—but the quality of colleagues in his or her organization also has a significant impact on the ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2023
- Article
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
competitors, and all three organizations saw news as a public trust. But by the mid-1980s, the networks had become divisions of large corporations, and profitability and entertainment value took center... View Details
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Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership - Alumni
Careers Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership Careers Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership The HBS Board Diversity Network connects HBS alumni from underrepresented groups with corporate board opportunities by: Creating... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
outlined his vision for building an organization that would offer disadvantaged youth a year of training and then place them in meaningful jobs with partnering corporations. As a student at HBS, Chertavian continued to pursue his interest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
mind that communities are governed very differently than companies. User communities operate outside the boundaries of the firm even in cases where the community organizes around a firm’s core products––and firms can therefore not control... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
tremendous risk,” he writes. “We were the only media company going local throughout the world, and it was the key to our success.” Roedy, a former nuclear missile–base commander, created an entrepreneurial, innovative organization with a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
business strategy, part of Facebook’s business model since at least 2010. That’s when Facebook opened up its Graph application programming interface (API) to advertisers, giving them access to user data including their social network... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
to five local nonprofit groups, including the National Capital Chapter of the American Red Cross. CSI also plans to organize weekend volunteer projects in order to offer club members a variety of options for giving back to the community.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International, a View Details
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated View Details
- 1991
- Chapter
Organizational Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective
By: L. M. Applegate and J. Henderson