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- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
MJ dates her interest in climate change to her college years. “I was in college in the 1960s. We were an activist generation, especially with regard to the environment. We protested against the Vietnam War and for civil rights. When I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
research, for several years I have been working with colleagues in the HBS finance group on something called the Global Financial System Project. We are trying to understand the global financial system and the implications of institutional change. Our conceptual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a partnership that became iTrust View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
plan will go to the governor's office sometime in the first part of July for him to sign off on, and then the State agencies need to get to work and will on implementing that plan. And that will be a multi-month process to implement the plan and make sure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
reform’s biggest downside to date as the negative financial impact on the traditional “safety-net providers” — hospitals whose business models depended on subsidies they received for handling a high volume of uninsured, low-income... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
success, and there can be marketplace failures. I'll discuss labor markets like the market for new economists as well as markets for new lawyers and doctors that have suffered from the unraveling of appointment dates to well before... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an industry in the midst of dramatic structural change, and asks whether a16z's success to date has been due to its novel organization structure. a16z's 22 investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
tomorrows. Appropriately, therefore, some nine hundred participants - most of them HBS alumni - convened in San Francisco last March to assess the outlook for business as it stands poised at the edge of unknown territory. At the elegant Fairmont Hotel, which View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
and sales for our datasets) is positively correlated with both dispersion among experts' forecasts and scale: the variance increases sublinearly with dispersion and more than linearly with scale. Further, we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made 3-9... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
institute for the past five years. Measurable Success Some measures of PELP's success to date are quantifiable. PELP's summer institute, a centerpiece of the project, has brought nearly 450 district leaders—superintendents, principals,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
giving. It dated back to Rahul's grandfather, the founder of the group, who had been the most prominent business leader who supported Gandhi's campaign against British rule in India. He and most of his family spent long periods in jail as... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
dream to have his own business. The case is a rewritten version of a previous case 899-212, updating the dates and financial data to 2012 timeframe. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813045-PDF-ENG Paul Thomson: Walker Insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Supplemental Airlines, which had the license to do that, but in most cases they weren't doing that. So we were able to acquire a little airline called Zantop, and in many ways, that was the most important deal that we did because it launched us. AW: If I've got my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Oakland to inquire about franchise opportunities. Founded during the Depression by William Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Dreyer’s had established a Bay Area reputation for premium quality and inventiveness, dating back to the debut of its Rocky... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
started out as a dating site here at Harvard when he was a freshman and then he saw an opportunity to move to the West Coast to really expand Phenomenal success. There literally are millions of people who want to be the next Mark... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
earlier. But soon that story will be out of date or rather, won’t capture everything. One day, Watson will do more than just suggest likely illnesses, says David Kenny. It’ll get more granular and actually prompt doctors: Did you look for... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), provided a summary of the firm's journey to date and an update on its progress. The message from Fink at the July meeting was clear: the firm needed to do more. This message was also reinforced by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace