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- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
passionate about the work and strongly believed in its impact, I also began to observe the risks, limitations, and skewed incentives foreign aid creates within local governments. I began View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofits don't want to show that their program may not be what people think it is. It's the culture. We use this information to penalize people, when instead we should be thinking about how we can make things better. It's a huge mental View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
fulfillment of community needs. (Of course, Friedman's formulation leaves the manager with two problems: the sum of consumer desires does not necessarily equal community need, and many—perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 11 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Saying “Race” Out Loud: Leading Conversations on Diversity in HBS Classrooms
to the HBS campus to guide faculty on discussing race in their cases and classrooms. Growing faculty members’ comfort and skill in addressing different dimensions of identity—such as socioeconomic, gender,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
what kinds of things does it have to be especially competent, in order to compete?"8 In the late 1950s, another Harvard business policy professor, Kenneth Andrews, built on this thinking by arguing that "every business... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
American Civil War, Maggie Lena Walker did her best to actively effect change by finding solutions to the social and economic problems facing blacks and especially black women. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2018
- Blog Post
Yes, Introverts CAN Network Successfully: A Brief How-To for People Who "Hate" Networking
about themselves." As your relationship matures, you can legitimately ask for recommendations on how you can follow a similar path. Create a schedule – and stick to it"This is critical," Shepherd says. "Building a... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
powerful, wouldn’t we have long ago figured that out and accomplished it? Or wouldn’t I have at least heard of it? But that’s not how innovation works, in politics or in any industry. There is a moment when the idea germinates, but often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
graduates, to address climate change?” Ratnika Prasad (MBA 2020), Associate Director at The Nature Conservancy "There has been a seismic shift in the last few years, whereby concern about the climate and sustainability has finally begun... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- Portrait Project
Chao Zeng
environment for a cheerful, naive teenager. This experience taught me courage and determination. I learned how to take control of the situation, fight against whatever challenge to View Details
- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
greats of the past would never have fulfilled their destinies. Nor would the presenters. I was also deeply impressed by the difficulty of maintaining this special edge as the special edge as the School grows View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
votes cast in order to be elected. Contrast that, these activists warn, with the prevailing procedure that puts a candidate on a board with just a plurality of votes. They claim that under these conditions, directors can be elected with... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
course, OLPC aspires to many more commitments to fulfill its vision of "one laptop per child." Herein, marketers find much food for thought. According to Quelch, a professor of marketing, the laptop's creation View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
integrated curriculum. Students take team-taught, multidisciplinary courses structured from the point of view of key constituents with whom managers interact, such as employees, customers, and investors. For... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
Preannouncements under Market Uncertainty Authors:Ofek, Elie, and Ozge Turut Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A firm may want to preannounce its plans to develop a new product in order to stimulate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
For instance, ESPN.com and USATODAY.com both ask readers to sign in through Facebook in order to post a comment on a news story. "If you log in to a site through Facebook, they get your profile picture,... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
There's a trade-off, however, as it can open the door to minority investors taking a hit, say as when a government-owned company holds down the price of gasoline in order to benefit voters, but depresses... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
dynamics, additional fees and dues, to case narratives and perspectives, Mbanusi felt isolated and excluded. When he learned that Holly Fetter View Details