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  • 20 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

French youth services organization Unis-Cité, which was modeled after the American nonprofit City Year. Credit:  Unis-Cité “If you do not innovate and have a solution to the problem you’ve identified, the movement will die,” she says. “I... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Results are especially acute for Hispanic creators. Distant, mostly white backers are typically important for projects reaching a critical threshold of funding support. Retractions in support for minority creators during tense periods are even spatially, as present in... View Details
  • Web

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    Past Issues - Alumni

    dreams Complete Table of Contents June 2023 Curb Appeal Can Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) clean up New York City in her role as commissioner of the Department of Sanitation? Alumni Achievement Awards 2023 As leaders across the private,... View Details
    • 06 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

    Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari & Marco Piovesan
    • April 2020
    • Background Note

    U.S. Food Retail During the Pandemic: March 2020

    By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
    This note, written in late March 2020 and mainly U.S. focused, looks at the unfolding impact of the coronavirus pandemic on food retailers and their suppliers. It allows student to consider the challenges facing food retail executives as they navigate urgent supply... View Details
    Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Food; Supply Chain; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 07 Nov 2023
    • News

    Love and Money

    professional photographer. Because everyone is Googling you or making snap judgments about you from your dating profile, from your LinkedIn profile, and I think too many of us don't pay attention to having a high-quality photo. So find a photographer in the person's... View Details
    • November 2020 (Revised June 2022)
    • Case

    Community-First Public Safety

    By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
    How many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Law Enforcement; Governance; Decision Making; Safety; Social Issues; Public Administration Industry; United States; Minnesota; Saint Paul
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    • December 2012 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    The “Chongqing Model” and the Future of China

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Since opening to the global economy in 1979, but especially since entering the WTO in 2001, China's economy grew at rates around 10% annually by attracting FDI and promoting exports. After the financial crisis that began in 2008 and depressed demand in the United... View Details
    Keywords: China; Public Sector; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Public Administration Industry; China
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    Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

    than other online programs (From a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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    Partners - Case Method Project

    Murtaugh Middle and High School Murtaugh, ID ID 10 of 21 Janet Liston Frank Church High School Boise, ID Subjects: American Government, U.S. History 11 ID 11 of 21 Steven Maughan Nampa Senior High School Nampa, ID ID 12 of 21 Sandy Lynn Midgley Lake View Details
    • 20 Aug 2020
    • Book

    From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

    For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

    Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

    diagnostics? We need to make innovation our North Star. I’ll travel from South Asia to Central America to Eastern Europe to the West Coast, then repeat; I don’t even get jet lag anymore. I like to get up early in whatever city I’m in, run... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • 30 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

    greenhouse gas emissions far below EU regulatory requirements, the plant’s own environmental approved limits, and even current state-of-the-art reference levels. Our impressions The facility has a beautiful and creative design, both externally and internally. The plant... View Details
    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

    many of its most influential citizens. Yet a small group of opponents catalyzed a local movement that, despite being outspent 1,500 to one by the bid’s boosters, ultimately caused the city to back out in 2015. [DAD can be appropriate for... View Details
    Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction
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    Chris Aguemon

    about your hometown? I won’t call Loudoun County, VA a small place necessarily but where I grew up has a small town feel with local foods, a historic downtown all while still having access to major airports and a major city in Washington... View Details