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- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
three of the women had been employed continuously in a full-time position. The remaining women, she recounted, had moved in and out of the workforce, adjusting the scope and rhythms of their professional lives to fit with family and other... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
interests of vulnerable or disenfranchised consumers are protected. Encyclopedic in scope and authoritative in substance, the papers represent the sole major work on the subject to date. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
job? After I arrived, we got an authorization for 840 new professional employees on the base of about 3,100. Is that enough? I would say that we are never going to have enough resources given the enormous scope of this agency’s task. How... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
childcare, backup, childcare, and it is going to be something that needs to be much more national in scope and much more intermittent in its support in order for that to work. AW: These issues that you raise both childcare and caring for... View Details
- September 2021
- Case
Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds
By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Higher Education; Decision Making; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Geographic Scope; Growth and Development; Leadership; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Identity; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Expansion; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
Kim, John J-H, Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds." Harvard Business School Case 322-016, September 2021.
- March 2021
- Case
Founders Factory
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett
In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Markets; Planning; Expansion; Global Range; Business Model; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Africa; South Africa; Johannesburg; Europe; France; Paris; United Kingdom; England; London; United States; New York (city, NY)
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and James Barnett. "Founders Factory." Harvard Business School Case 821-009, March 2021.
- September 2024 (Revised October 2024)
- Case
River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market
By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of a fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Microeconomics; Local Range; Government Legislation; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Competitive Strategy; Governance Controls; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Mississippi
Greenwood, Robin, Richard S. Ruback, and Robert Ialenti. "River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market." Harvard Business School Case 225-011, September 2024. (Revised October 2024.)
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
of a project. Technological Invisibility Gaps in access and utility that emerge for particular demographic groups due to limited scope or understanding and appreciation of differences in need/experience. Universal Design A set of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Routledge, forthcoming Abstract This Handbook gives an overview of the range and scope of International Political Economy (IPE) scholarship by mapping the different regional schools of IPE and noting the distinctive way IPE is practiced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
universities nationwide, pointed to a gender disparity in the sciences. Sponsored by the Vice Provost's Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the group originally piloted several programs focusing on gender in science, and over the next few years widened its... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
million, to support the School’s higher revenues and the increased level of activity on campus. While in any given year our largest expense—people—is always the same, the budget dynamics from one year to the next can be markedly different. In fiscal 2021, with the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
helping to drive the green tech revolution, and he is a leader in the education-reform movement as well. Doerr and his wife, Ann, have two daughters. How are things different at KPCB than when you started almost thirty years ago? The size, scale, and View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
is quite a bit in scoping out the right question with them so the community can be of value to them," Lipstein said. "If it's a simple question, there's no reason to crowdsource." DeJulio agreed that framing the question just right — free... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
Lincoln Center is mind-boggling in its scope and prestige. Eleven resident organizations in arts and education share the campus: the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the... View Details
- Web
1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA
also adhere to all HBS Academic Policies in conducting fieldwork for academic credit. Credits Independent Projects (IPs) may earn 1.5, 3, 4.5, or 6 credits, depending on the size and scope of the project. If this is a team project, each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
the employees, to even consider the possibility of an in-person working environment. I think there’s a deep fear that employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
project variables that can be changed are therefore the cost of the mission and its scope (or complexity). These two variables, in turn, influence the level of risk in the mission (i.e., the likelihood of errors). Cut cost significantly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
highlight the pros and cons of each knowledge production model, help identify the scope of the empirical generalization of prior studies comparing the information quality of the two production models, and offer implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne