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- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
aid in the Delhi region. As noted in a recent article in India Today, Pasricha’s involvement was spurred by a mid-April phone call from a friend’s wife “who was desperate to find oxygen for her hospitalized husband.” Pasricha has been... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Edmondson, and Michael A. West Abstract— Many teams face the problem of process loss, or suboptimal functioning, with sometimes serious consequences, such as medical errors. Team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
events—and what procedures and practices will aid in their ability to do so? Obviously, extreme events—events that are in scope or scale or type beyond the range of our ordinary experience and expectations—by definition will occur only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
aid only in the crowdsourcing of designs, Rogers balked. “We need a microfactory,” he said. Unless GE bought into the whole model, Local Motors wasn’t interested. Immelt agreed, and Comstock suggested the oil and gas division as a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
design "path" both advance and impede absorptive capacity. Changes in path allow rapid experience with alternative ideas, and this eventually aids adoption and invention capacity. However, these changes temporarily harm the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting new technologies. This acceleration is correlated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
the Giants were the first MLB team to sponsor an AIDS awareness campaign, an ongoing project. All Giants players are involved in at least one community organization, and many participate in the team’s flagship project, the Junior Giants,... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
with their corporate brands. What exactly does a parent company’s name represent, and how is it perceived in the marketplace? A strong corporate identity provides direction and purpose, boosts the standing of products, aids in recruiting,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
join York Street, a winner in the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition.) Years earlier, Embuldeniya and Mawilmada bonded at HBS over their Sri Lankan roots, a tie further strengthened by the December 2004 tsunami that struck the country and a fundraising effort they led... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
he flew to Jordan to meet with security officials with the hope of gaining intelligence and influence useful to winning the release of American aid workers being held by ISIS in Syria. A couple of months earlier, a similar trip Bradley... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
case:http://hbr.org/search/913401-PDF-ENG SCMS: Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa Ananth Raman, Noel Watson, Santiago Kraiselburd, and Emmanuel AkiliHarvard Business School Case 613-023 In 2005, USAID and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
the extent of suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We show how the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
students and alumni. MBA Admissions & Financial Aid New Managing Director In September 2023, Rupal Gadhia (MBA 2004) was named the managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. She oversees an admissions process that aims to... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 509-013 Describes the launch and initial results of the (PRODUCT) RED campaign, a social marketing initiative conceived by U2's Bono and Bobby Shriver to combat AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The company licensed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
companies. And indeed, this SDR theory-turned-to-code has shown the ability to aid in natural language processing, with one of Numenta’s partners, Cortical.io, using it to help machines read lengthy, complex contracts to make sure they... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
startup success—and failure—from veterans of the New Venture Competition Complete Table of Contents December 2021 Rescue & Recovery In the wake of an abuse scandal and a clean sweep of leadership at Mercy Corps, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna gets the humanitarian View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The fourth such global meeting was just held in early December in Busan, South Korea. “We need to encourage risk-taking by organizations, provided that it's accompanied with rigorous data... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna