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Education Club | MBA

Education Club The Education Club aims to provide students with a platform for shared learning and a cross-functional network to drive change and impact in education. Annual Events Career info sessions and 1-on-1 coffee chats for students... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art

2006, he cofounded Behance, a networked portfolio website for artists. Six years later, it was acquired by Adobe, where Belsky now oversees products related to social networking and mobile apps. The overlap between his nine-to-five and... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

29 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

care, and other social goods. These are the consumers who are now trading in their sport-utility vehicles. They include the empty-nester baby-boomers, less confident than before, who are tired of heating... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni asked probing questions of HBS... View Details

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

01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

were painted stark white and were inhospitable down to the dirty slippers that patients traded for their shoes at the door. The reception area of the Yoga clinic had all the comforts of a wellappointed hotel lobby: plush couches, orchids,... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details

February 2019
Case

Halliday's OASIS

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

Wade Watts has won control of the OASIS – a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform’s potentially negative externalities. View Details

Keywords: Managing Markets; Corporate Responsibility; Virtual Reality; Digital Platforms; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; United States

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01 Mar 2025
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Venture: Time Heals All

transparent scheduling that takes their work-life balance into account, making for happier nurses who are more likely to stay put. Agile Software M7 built its platform in a modular way, so it can be quickly and easily configured to meet... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1997
News

William K.L. Fung

told my father that I didn't want to be in a family company," says Fung with a chuckle. The elder Fung challenged his son to use his HBS skills to breathe new life into the trading company, founded by Fung's grandfather in Canton, China,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details

02 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

211-033 This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the head of global credit at Belco... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

The Network Effect

COVID-related trials needing over 858,000 volunteers. “Every week, every day, every hour we can decrease the time for developing COVID-19 solutions will make a tremendous impact,” says Kapoor, who notes that the platform will soon begin... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; COVID-19; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

06 Feb 2020
News

HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China

local and multilateral organizations on logistics—coordinating purchase, delivery, and customs—in their effort to contain the spread of the virus. At the same time, a group led by Ray Yang (MBA 2003), Mei Zhang (MBA 1996), and Andy Lin (MBA 2003) have used the View Details

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

club. Think IBM's "solutions for a small planet." 5. Social responsibility. Consumers expect global brands to lead on corporate social responsibility, leveraging their technology to solve the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard... View Details

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Casey Gerald

garden” While at Yale, Casey attended a law school event at which the speaker made an observation that made a lasting impact upon him. “He said law was the instrument of social change in the twentieth century,” Casey explains, “but if you... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Retail; Nonprofit / Government

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Kim Chen

organizational level, to keep up with the rapid pace of change and innovation. The area of flux I am most excited about is the changing definition of business success, one that is increasingly expanding beyond the bottom line to include View Details

Keywords: Retail; Nonprofit / Government

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to prepare networking professionals for certification exams, as well as View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne