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17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

(MBA 2023) - There are 15 million homes in the US with a one in four chance of total asset loss due to flooding, RESILIFT will end that threat to American Housing. PARTICIPANTS - BUSINESS TRACK AgX - Maxwell Leef (MBA 2025), Callum Taylor, Sam Aubin - AgX smart cattle... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

intended to build an e-commerce platform, but she changed course and invested in bricks and mortar when she saw a need for customer-friendly neighborhood stores. The pivot offered a personalized shopping experience that relied on a cadre... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

fanatics. “Getting under the skin of the brand made it much easier to understand the right stories to tell and the right people to bring on to our team,” he says. The movie’s success was “gratifying on both a personal and a brand level,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

spectrum of readers. Quantitative information in tables that stand out and use of color ensure that the key points of the data are clear and also helpful. Easily navigable corporate Web sites make it easy to find information online, as do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

rich topic of study and an immensely powerful policy tool.” "The problem is this: The government can't tell whether it is easy or hard for a given person to earn income, because it can't measure 'ability.' What the government can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

surveyed projected they could continue paying premiums for six or more months. Researchers used data from a survey conducted by Alignable, a North American online business networking platform. Of the 9,043 Alignable members who opened the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

sector tends to be mired in a process that often results in various degrees of chaos. Supported by a broad mix of foundations, corporations, and individuals, the philanthropic capital markets depend mostly on a hodgepodge of personal... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

26 May 2015
Blog Post

5 Ways the Case Method Changes How You Learn

method of learning that depends as much on the caliber of the students as it does the teachers. Everyone comes to class armed with their creativity, insight, personal biases and backgrounds, and professional experience ready to propose a... View Details

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

entrepreneurial ideal of attaining financial success without having to give up the reins of the company. When To Found About 4 to 5 percent of MBA students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon graduation, or even before graduation, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors is View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members' prior experience working with one another—helps teams to better manage challenges created by task changes and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual—level View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary employee View Details

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

delivers in the current period conditional on a stockout in the prior period. We also provide a method for estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance along these two dimensions on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss,... View Details