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- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
Credit: pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also clear that a discussion of... View Details
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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship
Get Involved Thank you for expressing interest in Rock Center programming. Your engagement is critical to the success of our student programs and initiatives. The purpose of this poll is to collect more information about you, View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
laws are not a cure-all. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for decades, they have been seen as a View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
when they have to recreate themselves as generalists. In this new generalist role, they end up knowing less and less about more and more. This is an extremely difficult and potentially very risky transition, and it can easily derail a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1
class content, geared to having them develop their ideas for a new venture, build rapid prototypes of their new products, test these prototypes with customers, and assess the viability of the resulting venture by developing a pitch deck and delivering it to View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
innovative new financial derivatives or special-purpose vehicles, even if they serve on boards that are required to approve such potentially risky transactions. In fact, data on enrollment in executive education programs offered by... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
numbers are low, members of underrepresented groups carry extra burdens, as her earlier work on tokenism has shown. As a Latina woman leading a tech company, Tuchman felt she had to explain herself and Caribu’s potential for dramatic... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
smart people of that time believed that technology had reached its limits and capitalism had passed its peak. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. Q: Schumpeter introduced the term “creative destruction” and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
not confident, and pessimistic, which potentially leads to mental health issues, and that these feelings could be traced back to the absence of a loving environment when they were a child. A person’s life experience is irreversible, but... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
When our team reached out to 600 CEOs during the pandemic’s early stages to ask them about their greatest concerns, many cited communication with employees. While the right communication strategy has been critical during the pandemic, it... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
putting too much faith in innovative companies with exciting ideas but untried management. "At Morgan Stanley, we're back to basics: We look for young companies that have the advantage of entering a potentially large market before the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced dramatic growth, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition
students’ due diligence. The Kumulus team was ultimately selected as runner-up in the competition and won a $25,000 investment in Kumulus. Students chose to participate in MIINT to gain hands-on experience in impact investing, strengthen their skills and explore it as... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a supply of medicine, Partners in Health can now tell View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM
ultimately delivered value to our customers. What was the most difficult part of your experience as a STEM applicant, and how did you overcome it? Initially I was worried that my potential recommenders at... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
the insights and feedback from their cohort. We talked to a few participants in the Accelerator to hear more about their experience: Teresa Danso-Danquah, Rea Savla, Benjamin Schedl, and Sophy Wang, (all MBA 2024). Tell us about your... View Details
- Portrait Project
Shardule Shah
“Daddy! Where’s my magic wand?!” screamed Siyona, my four-year old daughter. “I’m sorry. I’ll be back,” I told a potential investor on a videoconference. Previously, I would have lamented this interruption. But we live in a new world.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
of official COVID deaths for each country helped them gauge potential underreporting. “There’s been a lot of research on COVID in terms of health and mitigation efforts, but as accountants, we felt like we could bring a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
run the risk of not extracting the full financial value from these partnerships and co-branding opportunities that they deserve. Q: Do you have advice for aligning brand with mission? In particular, your case on Habitat for Humanity shows... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls