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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Anytime Gain proven frameworks to build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably scale and attract venture capital. 5 modules 5-6 hours per module On-demand start Self-paced over 90 days This course earns you a Certificate of... View Details

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Melcolm Ruffin

internship he'll be with Twitter's Global Content Partnerships team focused on sports, news, and entertainment content deals. Meanwhile, he recognizes that within HBS, he has "come full circle – I'm now among the leaders of the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

though they left host photos on the listing pages. In June 2020, Airbnb launched Project Lighthouse, a US-based research effort that aims to identify and measure bias involving names and photos to help the company create better policies, View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

model. The case describes the various marketing channels employed by the BabbaCo team (Search, Email, Social Media, Deal Sites, Affiliates, etc.), including the strategy and effectiveness for each. Readers can use this knowledge to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

the leadership team of BTG Bioliquids in Enschede, the Netherlands, to learn about their fast pyrolysis technology, which converts second-generation biomass residues into bio-oils and other useful renewable bio-chemicals. The authors:... View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

About Rock History The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship opened in its headquarters building on the HBS campus in 2003 with the generous donation of $25 million by famed venture capitalist Arthur Rock , MBA 1951 Arthur Rock has... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Understand how power really works Cultivate power to make an impact Avoid the pitfalls of power Build networks as a source of power Assess your organization’s political landscape Develop influence skills to shift power dynamics Exercise... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

results—the next quarterly report and the rewards that come from short-term success—while ignoring their responsibilities to sustaining and building the company's long-term fiscal health. Ironically, it was the Wall Street leaders who put... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2020
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A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

covenantal relationship? Does it make a difference? Let’s look at why it matters and what a covenant means. As you’ll discover, a number of parallels exist between a covenant leaders establish and how the best teachers teach. Here are the three dimensions of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

17 Jan 2019
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Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

this business issue, members of Fuller’s team surveyed two groups. They asked 301 human resource leaders and business owners in the United States how they approach caregiving benefits. And they asked 1,500 employees who provide or... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or dangerous driving moments, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. At the Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS), we empower business leaders to make an impact on the biggest challenges of our time. Together, we are View Details

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

Anand was instated as chief diversity officer for Sodexo, North America. Anand and Landel worked with several executives to develop and implement systems that were conducive to a diversity strategy. The team started to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

was a good inside fighter,” Keen says later. “I could take a lot of stomach hits. You get me up against the ropes and I can fight.” He also was a punter and placekicker on the football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally rewarding, de Chazal is at a point in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 May 2019
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What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

certain clinical areas to understand better how failures occurred, thereby proactively improving medical safety. One clinical group developed something they called a "Good Catch Log" to record information that might be useful in better understanding and... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

15 Oct 2007
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Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details