Foundations - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

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

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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

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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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

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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