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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
entrepreneur, who grew up in the Philippines, offers a successful model for balancing work and life. When she rang the bell at the NYSE earlier this year, launching Care.com’s initial public offering, she... View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional... View Details
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
opportunity for goods and services that offer new consumer concepts or new product qualities, but most Indians believe brands are more expensive—even when they're not. It can be difficult for a new product to get over that View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may be different at different points in time. We find that retail store openings initially cannibalize direct channel sales in the short term if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in the gap between View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
have consistently identified the same types of individual differences and contextual factors (especially leader behavior) as key influences on speaking up by subordinates. Q: What led you to conduct this study? Did anything in your research surprise you? A: The... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
Illustration by Neil Webb Illustration by Neil Webb Josh Hoffman-Senn (MBA 2019) and fellow cofounder of LS, Jimmy Pemberton, launched their initial digital toolkit in 2021, after seeing fellow musicians search out supplemental income... View Details
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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
planning. One thing that I've learned in the past year is that social enterprise offers a broad spectrum of opportunities, and that an interest in marketing or even investment management is not mutually exclusive to an interest in seeing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
with you, seek your feedback, and then use that information to shape how we leverage the School’s resources to support your lifelong learning strategy. In the meantime, we will continue to offer unique programs such as The Reflective... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
people) or not served at all. Third, the products and services they offer are simpler and cheaper than alternatives, but recipients view them as good enough. Fourth, they bring in resources in ways that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
CSR initiatives do not include the mangrove conservation project, but are instead focused around skills & livelihoods, public health, waste management, and watershed management (3). As we discussed extensively during our visit,... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
A New Way to Recruit
initial contributors, the HBS community remains a driving force behind our very encouraging growth. At LifeGuides, we’re excited to provide a new opportunity for job seekers to understand various career paths, in addition to View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
they approached was already trying a kinder-and-gentler tactic by waiving the fee to recoup enforcement costs ($400 per image) and just asking for the actual cost of licensing the image that averages between $380 and $825 per image. “Despite the substantial difference,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”
same day, and Aaron was able to meet with her that afternoon. Over the next four weeks, Aaron’s initial conversation evolved into a series of email exchanges and meetings with Barry’s executives, including its CEO. Aaron had planned on... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
jointly by the HBS Executive Education Program and the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the SPNM program offers immersive, multi-faceted learning and the HBS case method to enable nonprofit leaders to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
not sufficient to assign every student to a school. Annually, while about 17,000 students would receive initial offers from multiple schools, about 50,000 received a single View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
Cheng (current chairman of Montage) and Leslie A. Kenny (now CEO of Hong Kong–based DotMedia Studio) approached the School’s Initiative on Social Enterprise in order to learn more about the details of launching a nonprofit. Their ideas... View Details