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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
seventeen years to break even," he laughs. That hurdle overcome, this year he returns to HBS having achieved a different kind of entrepreneurial goal: in May, he hosted his 12th annual World Croquet Championship and charity wine auction, which raised more than $400,000... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
considered martial arts as the foundation for a legitimate, even upstanding, business success story. It’s time for the main event, a middle-weight championship bout between Brazilian Leandro Ataides (a member of the Evolve Fight Team) and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19
sign-ups for the city of Boston, focusing mainly on recruiting students in the area to join our cause. Once we’ve built a strong foundation of volunteers, we will turn on our matching algorithm to automatically match volunteers with... View Details
- Web
John H. McArthur | About
on August 20, 2019 outside Boston, Massachusetts. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and development on which the School continues to build today. His... View Details
- 21 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Harvard Square's Hidden History
served Newtowne (Cambridge’s name at founding). It was the primary center of commerce for the towns surrounding present-day Harvard Square, including much of the agricultural activity that took place on and near what is now HBS’s campus. Harvard’s First Dorms: Goffe... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of Keynesian theory in the post-war years gave the subject greater prestige, and the 1958 reports on the state of business education in America by the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation led to a greater emphasis on the social... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 13 Dec 2022
- HBS Seminar
Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)
health foundation in Uganda where I was making less but saving more, given my lower expenses. Throughout those years, I was conservative in my spending. I had managed to save about $20,000 and had no student debt. Still, when I started... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
are told, for example, that standard telephone service is migrating toward becoming a free service, becoming a foundation instead for the sale of other information services. At least one New York daily newspaper has begun giving away its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
coordinating role to help bring strategy to fruition. For this e-mail Q&A, Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, teamed up with colleague Andrew Pateman, Principal of the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
for a company. While necessary, these capabilities do not determine competitive success. An IT department that provides only a basic foundation of technology infrastructure and a standard set of application programs may adequately assess... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
broader based growth strategy. Overall, the discussion suggests that there are sufficient grounds to be skeptical that exports are the right foundation to build a growth agenda on. Exports play a role in growth but it is doubtful whether... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
children, this opportunity wasn't the life I wanted at that point," says Jacobson, who resigned, then taught at HBS, consulted, and began to focus on philanthropy. She and Jon had started a family foundation and were interested in finding... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India
It was founded by Rockefeller and Ikea foundations and the Bezos Earth Fund. GEAPP launched at COP26 with aligned investments of $10B+. It is an alliance of preeminent philanthropic, government, donor, multilateral development banks,... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
There are significant peridotite deposits in California, Oregon and Washington so we’re looking for potential partners to help us set up a site on the west coast. 44.01 won the 2022 Earthshot prize in the “Fix Our Climate” category, a global environmental award founded... View Details
- 20 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
- Web
Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
Patients like my mother have become the pioneers of change for rare diseases, advocating for themselves and educating their physicians in real time. Patient advocacy organizations and disease-focused, nonprofit, research foundations have... View Details
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
negative reaction, deep metaphors enable us to discover whether shame, guilt, or some other negative feeling is producing the aversive or negative experience. Second, deep metaphors provide the basic foundations for the brand stories... View Details