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- January 2017
- Supplement
Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners: Cash Flow Tool
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
DaVita Healthcare Partners Inc. (DaVita) is one of the U.S.'s leading dialysis providers, a process whereby persons with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are connected to a machine that performs the functions of a healthy kidney. Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO, has expanded... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
helps explain why the owner of a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45560 August 2013 Journal of Applied Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
incentives that encourage them to give back, as skepticism about corporate America remains high and the world faces widespread global challenges brought on by COVID-19 and climate change. “In economics we talk more about how to deter the... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
(Journal of Finance, forthcoming). Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to brief the United States Congress on innovation policy, 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
responsibility for securing these materials. Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
ventures I was advising as the senior advisor for social entrepreneurship at the Harvard Innovation Labs. They said: “Hey, we’d like to learn more about that solution, and we think our colleagues might too.” So they set up a pitch day for... View Details
- October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
The Predictive Index
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
Mike Zani and Daniel Muzquiz needed to decide next steps to create a new category in the human resources consulting industry and scale their company.
Zani and Muzquiz, serial entrepreneurs, acquired Predictive Index in 2014. Previously, as clients of the... View Details
Zani and Muzquiz, serial entrepreneurs, acquired Predictive Index in 2014. Previously, as clients of the... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Talent and Talent Management; Recruitment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; United States
Applegate, Lynda M., and James Weber. "The Predictive Index." Harvard Business School Case 820-034, October 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
he says. "And obviously there should be a method for periodically testing and critiquing that strategy, and modifying it if it's not working." Ebrahim is working on a series of case studies focused on nonprofit and public organizations that are considered View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Industry Information - Alumni
fashion and luxury through the lens of digital and tech. (Tiered subscription model) + – Social Enterprise Stanford Social Innovation Review Professional journal that targets leaders in nonprofit management, View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
courses are completed successfully, learners will earn a Certificate of Specialization. HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in Leadership and Management , Strategy , Entrepreneurship and Innovation , Business in Society ,... View Details
- January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a... View Details
Keywords: AI; AI and Machine Learning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 824-134, January 2024. (Revised February 2024.)
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details
- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The paper begins by distinguishing business and human rights from the more general topic of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style
First, the researchers looked at the words that CEOs chose, using statistical inference to eventually generate 100 topics as diverse as marketing, corporate boards, and personal family history. Each CEO was scored based on their tendency... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016
American economic development, Slavery's Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater mission of providing multilateral development financing as well as non-financial technical support and expertise for the Latin American and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside trailblazers such as eBay, Yelp,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna