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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
will show how deep-purpose companies energize their enterprise by inspiring employees and fostering greater loyalty and trust with customers and partners. Purpose is also a compass with which these firms effectively navigate the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The Future Society, Health Care Club,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
what’s the best way for managers to communicate financial information to shareholders? “People who want to have advanced roles in enterprise confront financial questions more and more, and they have to be more fluent in the financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative for five years prior. During that time, he served as co-lead of the HBS New Venture Competition ; as an MBA Ombudsperson; and as a judge for and advisor to the President’s Innovation Challenge,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
enterprise has shown that there are fundamental tensions between pursuing scale economies and playing the spreads. (See the table "Conflicting Challenges.") The data indicate that there is some merit to classifying companies... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a success that over the next six years,... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Courses on our course platform are designed to work on an internet-connected desktop or notebook computer running either the Chrome or Firefox browser. Tablet computers and smartphones are not supported for... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
fiscal 2021, comprising 16 percent of the School's operating budget. Although HBS characterizes costs charged to HBP, HBS Online, and Executive Education as operating expenses, in a profit-seeking enterprise they would in large part be... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
to everybody else and adjusts to what they are doing. In jazz, the short session has always been the norm. Q: What aspects of Davis's innovation seem unusual compared with companies and creative enterprises you have studied? Are there... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
to HBP, Executive Education, and HBS Online as operating expenses, in a profit-seeking enterprise they would in large part be considered cost of goods sold. These expenses include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good fit for her personality. She found that fit when she took a... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
and more in terms of fostering growth. For those used to a venture-capital model of funding fast-growing software start-ups, it will mean realizing that a socially focused company may grow slower than, say, a cloud computing firm, but... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
Making coding cool
20 years in the tech sector, is encouraging middle school and high school girls to learn the language of the 21st century as a board member of Girls Who Code. Women are underrepresented in the tech industry and, too often, Maybank says, girls are “chased out of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion from 1960s View Details
- May 2004 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
IBM On Demand Community
By: John A. Quelch
The vice-president of IBM Corporate Community Relations is developing the launch program for IBM On Demand Community, a suite of 140 technology tools designed to enable IBM employees to assist nonprofit community organizations and schools worldwide. View Details
Quelch, John A. "IBM On Demand Community." Harvard Business School Case 504-103, May 2004. (Revised July 2004.)