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- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems across the state. I also worked for a non-profit think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), on renewable energy policy and convening of... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
Indian software maker Infosys specifically, and other Indian firms more generally.We document the under-studied effect that global product and labor markets can play in the convergence of corporate governance systems worldwide. This... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
company’s offices in downtown Kigali,” Barry says. “So you might think, great, we’ll figure out how to get people to pay by check. But you start to understand the system better once you go to a Rwandan bank and see that it takes three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
too long. Three years is better because the world changes so rapidly. So every three years, we basically reinvent ourselves, or try to. My brother calls it a process of institutionalizing change. You’ve got to institutionalize the process of reinvention. We’ve used... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says accelerator co-chair and HBS senior... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that, “It appears to me that our View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Medical School. The son of immigrants from Central America, he grew up in a low-income community in Southern California, and both his older brothers had foregone higher education to get jobs and help... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
do. The Internet and social media make position in a hierarchy less important than the ability to attract followers. Facebook pages or Twitter feeds are followed for their content, and anyone can claim a domain name in her own name. As they say in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
cross-disciplinary expertise of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Harvard Business School, and Harvard Business School Online. “With these courses, you’re examining ‘How can I shift the way people think?’” explains Mills.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?
important question: How do we categorize and portray the protagonists in each case so that faculty members can quickly identify them in our database, hopefully leading to more usage? The CRG developed new systems and processes to collect... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
you’re going to sell to a market.’” To ease the transition, Heifer provides far more than just healthy livestock. Nearly a thousand professionals in the field provide education and training in a range of technical areas. For instance, in... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?
important question: How do we categorize and portray the protagonists in each case so that faculty members can quickly identify them in our database, hopefully leading to more usage? The CRG developed new systems and processes to collect... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
Senior Corporate Advisor, Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Harvard College, 1969 A.B., Government LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "By... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Arena
generators, great at coming up with ideas. But ideas need wheels. It’s not enough to have a brilliant idea or a brilliant product. You need a brilliant system to deliver content and capture value in order to have an impact.” In a variety... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
students in the early 1920s, the idea for the magazine was quickly taken up by HBS faculty, who charged Arch Shaw, the Chicago publisher of System magazine (which later became Business Week), with producing the publication under the... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
find out the threat is harmless, but that’s OK — you learned, built capabilities, and understand the system better.” The case, which is dedicated to the memory of Columbia’s flight crew, includes a fifteen-minute documentary, produced by... View Details