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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
grew up in Montreal, where his father was a professor at McGill University and where he earned an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering. After graduating, he went to work for Monitor Company in Toronto, as a consultant. CPR for IP Zetta View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
help Black unicorns ‘team up’ and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.” “Teaming up is a mindset,” Stewart observes... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
toward other interests. Staying on mission and building an effective organization to carry out the mission requires a clear strategic focus and a well-developed strategy backed by well-aligned operations. This is the focus of our research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was proposed by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the MIT Media Lab. The time seemed ripe: The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation quickly signed up Google, News Corp.,... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
“[These leaders] learned a tremendous amount from the mission focus and discipline that came from the military,” says Simons, a Baker Foundation Professor and Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. “There is a... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
for growth become a primary objective, pulling these firms away from their foundational north star: CEO and C-suite management consulting. In pursuing additional opportunities, consulting firms have widely diversified the industry breadth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center for View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
business education could have been legitimated that way. So I started exploring in greater detail the origins of business education. That investigation led me to the archives of Harvard Business School, other business schools, and philanthropic View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707530 Fujifilm: A Second Foundation Harvard Business School Case 807-137 No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
the end of their lunch meeting, the pair had committed to research investing in African universities. Today, Maarifa, which translates as knowledge in Swahili and Arabic, has plans to invest in and/or acquire a dozen universities over the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Casadesus-Masanell decided to dive in. Most research to date into the OSS movement has focused on the organization and management issues surrounding OSS. Ghemawat and Casadesus-Masanell chose to explore the fundamental competitive... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
time she’s been doing research in this area—and what has remained the same. Lynn Paine: Probably the most obvious thing that has changed is the attitudes toward women and towards diversity in general. You know, back when Tosh joined her... View Details
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focus on core theories and applications from the full-length course. It will have a series of shorter written analysis exercises instead of a full research paper. Baker Foundation Professor of Management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
sum total of my work experience was two summer internships. It was a very steep learning curve, but I persevered. HBS gave me an invaluable foundation to build my career. Before joining eBay, you bounced around a lot. Why? In part because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
product of the GPP’s Substance Abuse Research Alliance (SARA), an affiliate group of 150 researchers, public officials, and practitioners all working to turn the rising tide of deaths from opioid overdose. Langford, here for the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement... View Details