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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
trusting atmosphere with decentralized decision-making." In the initial study, Deshpandé and his colleagues found significant differences in the way companies operated from one nation to another. "But a more important discovery was that... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities, faculty initiatives, and... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
rapidly in importance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52634 The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
vicious circle. As capabilities erode, it is harder for companies that require access to stay in business. They are forced to move their operations or their supplier base to the new commons. As they move, it is harder for existing... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
continue forging a path in mission-driven work at Harvard Business School. “I really love this impact related work, and I could do it until I have the last breath of my body, and there will still be work to do,” Ramirez said. “The question that I had was, ‘What is the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room and 7% cost reductions with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Explore Shift in Talent Markets On February 9, the HBS Club of Toronto held an in-person fireside chat and Q&A with Ethan Bernstein, Edward W. Conrad Association Professor of Business Administration, to explore the post-pandemic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
company so dedicated to reinventing agriculture to be more sustainable and less polluting use planet-friendly packaging? It wasn’t an oversight. As founder Viraj Puri recalls, when the company was starting out, his team researched... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Meaningful progress on complex social issues depends in part on the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the next generation. In recent years, we have seen a sustained increase in HBS students launching social impact ventures. In response... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)
diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their malaria programs and eradicate the... View Details
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Latin America - Global Activities 2021
Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999, right) HBS Online Offers a Social Entrepreneurship Challenge In May 2020, Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) announced a partnership with Sustainable Harvest International (SHI), kicking off the second... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
alumni thereafter. The faculty has increased from 15 to more than 200. Our entering MBA class now numbers roughly 900. Our annual operating budget has grown from $29,000 to $375 million, reflecting the School’s expanded research,... View Details
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
trials, impact clinical pathways, and solve some of the biggest challenges in medicine. Learn more: Landscapes: Data and AI Data Sustainability Listen to the Podcast 3. Clinical Trials: The KPMA developed methods to make clinical trials... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles has spent his academic career burrowing deeply into the arcane subject of corporate reporting—not the hottest of business topics. At least not until now. With the publication of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a View Details
- February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Production; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Norway; Indiana
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company." Harvard Business School Case 810-105, February 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
parking spots.” Getting fuel from earth into space is extremely costly: All costs considered, fuel in space costs more than pure gold on earth, says Landon. “Each satellite operator pays up to $50 million per ton for that fuel. That’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
FAQ About the Project What is the U.S. Competitiveness Project? The U.S. Competitiveness Project is a research-led effort to understand and enhance the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Artificial Intelligence Vodafone was operating in the fast-moving telecommunications market where innovation and scale were key. Faced with an onslaught of technological advances—big data, automation, and artificial intelligence—CEO... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman