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- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by Harvard Business School’s Joseph... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
Sutton Guldner (MBA 2022), Director of Partnerships for Nucleate Eco, and Jesse Lou (MBA 2022), Co-Founder of PicoGreens, 2021 Nucleate finalist, spoke with BEI about NucleateEco and how it supports eco-focused entrepreneurs.... View Details
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
Citizens, industrial polluters, and scholars do not usually see eye to eye—but that may change with a new Web site that monitors corporate environmental performance in the United States. According to the university professors who created... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
very grateful. As you know, the Alumni Board of Directors works hard to ensure that the quality of your experience as an HBS graduate doesn't stop when you leave Soldiers Field. The Board meets on campus three times a year, as a group and... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors faced unprecedented challenges. Vital supplies such as facemasks and cotton swabs were in short supply. New protocols had to be developed to isolate infected patients. Treating patients... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
grocery. All of the new businesses were unprofitable, though, and the losses from rural retailing threatened to overwhelm the entire company. Even worse, the avian flu had dented the poultry feed business, hitting the pockets of its... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
Guy de Chazal has arrived a bit behind schedule for his 25th Reunion interview. Trim and elegantly attired, he apologizes for being detained at an off-site meeting for Morgan Stanley & Co., where he is a managing director and president of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
trajectory, but my motivation to make a difference as a patient has grown. I joined the Cure HHT board of directors in 2020 inspired by the challenge and vision to find a cure. As I became more involved with Cure HHT this past year,... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Almost fifty years ago, nineteen-year-old Andy Grove stepped off a boat in New York City, a poor immigrant from Hungary who barely escaped Nazi occupation. A decade later he co-founded Intel, the chipmaker that would help invent the PC... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
returns to entering the product market and their profit thresholds. Depending upon the magnitude of these differences, we propose alternative commercialization outcomes. This model helps to explain why user entrepreneurs are likely to spawn the creation of altogether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
private firms (firms incorporated before 1985). Sectors dominated by state-owned and traditional private firms before 1988-1990, with assets, sales, and profits representing shares higher than 50%, generally remained so in 2005. The exception to this broad pattern is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
2016 New York: Palgrave Macmillan Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents By: Kirby, William C., and Marijk C. van der Wende, eds. Abstract—This book highlights the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006
factors associated with successful CRM implementation and advance directions for future research. Old Hand or New Blood? Author:Frank V. Cespedes Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, nos. 7/8 (July-August 2006): 28-40 Abstract Bill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
tools for innovation and with generative AI tools overall. They will leave with new prompting techniques and deals about how to deploy them in their work (and beyond). Family, Finance, and Philanthropy Anne McClintock, Senior View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
to success. The recent Champions League victory of FC Bayern Munich under new head coach Hansi Flick illustrates this powerful lesson. The dynamics of a comeback: A view from inside By making the historic treble of winning the Champions... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules looked promising. The majority of a board's directors now had to be independent. And senior executives were required to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne