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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
personal connection to the transformative power of education and an entrepreneurial mindset. His father grew up in the Mission Hill projects in Boston but was able to attend Boston College High School on a full merit scholarship. “That... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
played a crucial role in shaping the career paths of many HBS students. Class Project to Religious Quest Like the businesses that have sprung up from the contest, origins of the HBS Business Plan Contest can be traced to a classroom... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "The team discovered that having access to laptops and finding uses for them wasn't the main problem. A greater problem was financing the purchase and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
projected for years to come. Deficits of a trillion dollars a year cannot be sustained indefinitely. China, our largest creditor, is already very concerned about the dangerous U.S. fiscal situation. If we are unable to View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
example. The Chinese government/industrial complex (it’s hard to sort it out) is buying companies and investing in projects around the world. In the meantime, a populist and nationalist wave has produced a power shift in America. Whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details
- Profile
Alex Roth
For four years, Alex Roth studied chemistry at Oxford. But instead of following the traditional path to the PhD, Alex took a position with Procter & Gamble where held positions in Finance and Marketing. "I want to marry science... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
that make achieving the agreement’s goals so difficult. “I wrote the case to better understand how so many of us view climate change as both a global threat and one of the most important issues facing business in the 21st century, and yet so little has been done about... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
were looking for ideas with potential to revolutionize the field quickly. “We tell our scientists, ‘Dare to be great. Bring us the projects that you can’t get funded elsewhere.’ We don’t want safe, incremental science. We’re not looking... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Illustration by Peter Arkle Illustration by Peter Arkle Sandra Oh Lin (MBA 2003) has raised enough venture capital for now, thank you very much. Lin is the founder and CEO of KiwiCo, which designs and delivers science and art project kits... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
ways of promoting them. A rewritten version of an earlier note. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806172 The STAR Schools Initiative at the San Francisco Unified School District Public Education Leadership View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
in play in the day-to-day work of the World Bank, which enabled me to have a much more developed understanding of the World Bank's projects than before. The second year of the program as an RC (Required Curriculum year) at HBS has proved... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
bar and later ran a liquor store. By the time Horn was in the ninth grade, they had moved eight times. While their finances weren’t stable, the family was built on a solid foundation of love. After graduating from Union College, Horn... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
Manufacturing is a critical component of the American ecosystem for innovation and can be an important part of the knowledge economy. To let it erode would be a grave mistake. —Gary P. Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration and a member... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
“When Andreya started the project my initial reaction was, you’re going to find that everybody (wants to reduce their tax bill as much as possible)—and she didn’t. So I was thinking, maybe you’re doing something wrong. But it turns out... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland