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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public domain open source Web server.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
testing a new work environment. “I had worked at two smaller companies and founded a startup, so I thought, ‘What’s the opposite of that in retail?’” Krantz said. When she saw an internship opportunity at Dick’s Sporting Goods posted on... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
Valley. Knudsen blends its wines from the highest quality blocks of grapes. What makes a good grape? Elevation influences the fruit’s sugar content (measured in “brix”), notes Knudsen Cowles: Those with optimal sugar levels for the... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
do with giving them positive feedback on their work or giving them information that they need to do their work better. The third behavior is just plain recognizing people for good performance, particularly in View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- Profile
Paris Wallace
Ovuline, women are conceiving within 60 days. An early stage startup, Ovuline has raised more than $3 million in seed investment and is already getting significant revenue traction. And it tracks well with Wallace’s previous startup venture, View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance.... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
to Rohingya refugees since the violence in Myanmar erupted in August 2017. The organization considers the refugees’ mental health needs “acute.” "The global flow of goods and capital ties together all of human interaction."... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- Web
Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and giving them resources to make the less-structured career search less intimidating. Third, bringing the message that businesses can be a force for social good to the broader student body at HBS, even those who don't consider themselves... View Details
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Institute of Management Ahmedabad's Archives on India is a digital public good that compiles and maps over 500+ physical and digital archives and repositories relevant to the history and cultural heritage of... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
so business and leadership were really the world that I grew up in and I realized pretty early that business could be an incredibly powerful force for good and for general human flourishing, as well as a pretty powerful source of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
study by Richard Ruback , Robin Greenwood , and colleagues tells the company's story. At Lucky Ones Coffee, a small coffee shop tucked inside the public library in Park City, Utah, loyal customers regularly purchase coffee, tea, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
Edited by April White Josh King(photo via LinkedIn) Josh King (photo via LinkedIn) “The first question you have to ask yourself is, ‘Do I have something original to say, something that hasn’t been said before?’ ” —Josh King (PGL 2, 1999), View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving... View Details