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Erin Kaivan

was just blown away by the poverty, by the sheer lack of opportunity women had." Erin decided "to touch more of the world" and that business would be the way to do it. "It's the great equalizer," she says. "I... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 22 Feb 2021
  • Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Management That Works: How to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing, Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, offers research-based insight and context, and presents sales productivity not only as a core way to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)

By: Willy C. Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • February 2009 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Early Childhood Education; Investment Return; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Performance Effectiveness; Nonprofit Organizations; Minneapolis; Saint Paul
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  • December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth

By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

The result is a new HBS case, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations,” which grapples with the question of how justice might be done for victims of the massacre a century after it occurred—as well as the larger question of what reparations the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

co-branding opportunities that they deserve. Two examples come to mind, the American Red Cross's use of 9/11 funds and the United Way executive scandals. Both of these events eroded consumer trust in these... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957

private investment firm. “HBS expanded my horizons to the way people really thought. I loved it.” In fact, Matthews excelled at HBS and graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. Matthews supports HBS as well as a broad range of... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

example, Jaime M said, “What you define as pride would be better stated as humility, a customer-centric focus as opposed to an organization driven focus. You can build pride around humility and it will be tempered in a positive way that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

medical/surgical units at two hospitals, shadowed support staff who provided materials, and interviewed employees about their internal supply chain's performance. These activities created a database of 120 operational failures and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

Organizations, in which he argues that observation and imitation are rarely the best ways for employees to learn on the job. “There are some realms of life where that is true, but for the most part, problems in business are more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • Web

The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

writes in Framing the Audience: Art and the Politics of Culture in the United States, 1929–1945 . “ Fortune built on the increasingly populist orientation of the art world as it promoted an integration of culture and capitalism that would... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

the West will fail. To succeed, they need to build trust within the existing structures—and this book shows how it's done Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53925 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

performance of business units can be evaluated using measures of economic value creation. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211061-PDF-ENG China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good Christopher Marquis and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

women, those from outside the United States, and students whose early career paths have not enabled them to reduce their undergraduate loans. Consequently, the School strives to assist students in minimizing their debt at graduation by... View Details
  • Profile

Brandon Lovell

Up," he explains. "I am trying to give back the same way they did." At Accenture, for example, Brandon worked on diversity recruiting, helping to increase the number of minority interns and fulltime employees. Additionally,... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will not only create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

he says. “I had no idea that it would mushroom the way it did. I was just doing what I wanted to do.” Six years later, Nelson launched Providence Equity. Over the last 25 years, he and his partners have earned and sustained a reputation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young