Millennium Development Goals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
News

NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS

Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common View Details

Keywords: NFL; Ted Johnson; Todd Collins; Mike Haynes; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

1955 Number of Cases and Collections in Print Grows There are now 21 case collections in print as well as 50,000 individual cases. 1956 Annual Goal Set for Case Writing School sets target of having one-third of faculty engaged in case... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

Claudio Knizek “My goal is not only to lead people, but to lead by inspiring them.” Born: El Salvador, grew up in Brazil Citizen Of: Mexico Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German Stanford: BS and MS in industrial engineering... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech

opportunities for impact, as well as help me achieve my long-term goal of becoming the Chief Marketing Officer of a global technology firm. How have you leveraged your unique professional experience in the technology sector at HBS?... View Details

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Fangfang Wang

festival” to inspire consumer interest. Using private sector techniques to reach public sector goals Earlier in her career, when Fangfang had served as an assistant to the United Nation’s Development... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

23 Mar 2016
News

Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

Charlton Ames (MBA 1970) is chairman and vice president of business development for Sea Run Holdings, a virtual firm in Maine that develops innovative biologics and therapeutics from the blood of farmed... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Investing in Innovation

priorities." In September 2013, Faust launched the five-year, $6.5 billion Harvard Campaign. The financial goal for The Harvard Business School Campaign is $1 billion. As of April 25, HBS had raised more than 50 percent of that goal, with... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

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Dylan Zhou | MBA

Dylan Zhou Physics/Computer Science Dunster 2022 Cohort 3 My dream is to build cool things and change the world. But even as I've worked to develop a solid foundation in science and technology, I've had little exposure to the business... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society

accelerate the development of our products, we are growing and investing more in product and capacity, which in turn contributes to economic solutions around the globe,” said Fields. “Our goal is to serve... View Details

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Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business and Geopolitics Course Number 1155 Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Project Educational Objectives The goal of the course is to examine the ways in which firms not only... View Details

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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society

society. Our ultimate goal is to create networks of dedicated leaders who collaboratively identify and implement innovative strategies and business practices. Additionally, these discussions provide valuable insights for our Harvard... View Details

May 2024
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LinkedIn Corporation, 2024

By: David B. Yoffie, George Gonzalez and Emily Grandjean

By 2024, the LinkedIn profile was well established as the professional identity of record on the Internet. Following a multi-year effort to expand the platform’s user base, as well as a period of rapid growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, LinkedIn’s membership had... View Details

Keywords: Platform; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Social Media; Network Effects; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Technology Industry; Employment Industry; Sunnyvale

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November 2007
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Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D

By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf

Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Patents; Employee Stock Ownership Plan

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01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg

2012, which harnessed science to understand and change habits, and this year’s Smarter Faster Better, on the science of productivity. Both were bestsellers, and both have lessons for aspiring writers. After researching the science of goal... View Details

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Eric Lin | MBA

curious about the why rather than the how -- I want to know why certain features were chosen over others. Playing the piano taught me the art of storytelling, working at several startups ignited my curiosity for product, and interning at Apple and Microsoft helped hone... View Details

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

experiment that ultimately enabled consultants at Boston Consulting Group to reclaim at least a small portion of their lives from the onslaught of communication technology. In her initial work Perlow chose the goal of engaging a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

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Sahar Maisha | MBA

inspiring me to develop software to help patients like my dad monitor their illnesses from home. While healthcare software is one example, I am eager to explore how technology can address similar challenges in other industries.... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

have in common? They know that productivity relies on making certain choices: the way we frame our daily decisions; the big ambitions we embrace and the easy goals we ignore; the cultures we establish as leaders to drive innovation; and... View Details

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Chao Zeng

I’ve led discussions about LGBT and diversity, about how to help HBS students with families get more engaged in HBS activities. Because I’m from outside the U.S., I can bring a new perspective, a global perspective. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Financial Services

01 Aug 2014
News

The Secret Sauce

Email communication was key to achieving a class best of 53 percent participation. When asked to lead his class’s 30th Reunion Gift participation efforts, Atlanta-based real estate developer Scott Hawkins was up for the challenge.... View Details

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