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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
The Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (MELF), formed in 2005, invested in two projects designed to test the economists' recommendations. The St. Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program (SPECSP) provided up to $13,000 a year per child for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
armed forces. Many served in combat. They are proud to share this deeply personal aspect of their lives with you. Dante Branch | Surface Warfare Officer School US Navy ENTERED SERVICE FROM: Virginia Beach, VA REASON FOR SERVING: Military service seemed almost... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
board examinations. Out of 30 students, 3 had failed. The memory of one of them, Akash, still haunts me today. The failure that day wasn’t just Akash’s. For 10 years, we had promised his poor parents that if they sent Akash to school, he... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
reaching a high of $243 amidst much media fanfare. But like many early dot-com success stories, Perry, who has been called a founding father of the business-to-business online marketplace, has experienced the effects of gravity lately. Chemdex is now defunct, but Perry... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Harrison, and Tom Martin Abstract—Successful relationships depend on trust—trust between spouses, trust between parent and child, trust between enterprises and their stakeholders. This chapter focuses on the factors that build trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
about kind of non-financial rewards and kind of put out some nice benefits for you. And we’ll give you leave of absence, we’ll engage in parental leave, we’ll do this and the other. But we haven’t understood that human beings, we are also... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
with those around you. For years, my parents and friends would try to have a conversation with me about the eating disorder and I could not come from a place of authenticity. I still had this external mask on like everything was fine. If... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
business in the context of Nigeria's political culture and the predicament of the JV's alleged manager, Albert "Jack" Stanley, after being terminated in 2004 by Halliburton, parent of the U.S. JV partner, for taking kickbacks.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
moving along, getting ‘back to normal,’” says Pasricha. “That approach sweeps most deeper human emotions under the rug. Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health challenges are spiking. There is a lot of mourning and guilt, too. Survivor’s guilt, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
strategic planning and new initiatives (1998–2005). Light became Acting Dean on August 1, 2005, upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean on April 24, 2006. While in graduate school at Harvard, Light met his future wife, Judy; they are the View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
coming, and entered services. If you look at the store today, almost a third of PetSmart's sales are in services, things like grooming or hoteling—those sales aren't going away, they are not threatened by the Internet. And while the pet View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
America. What actions should Audubon take to get to that goal? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-480 VMware and the Public Cloud In 2015, VMware, a pioneer in server and network virtualization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
into any other state or geography that implemented P-TECH. So, you got the key players not just to donate something, but to be part of the decision-making process. The new principal of the first P-TECH school went door to door in the public housing project across the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
affiliates with positive net trade credit positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50554... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
some people numbers speak, but I don’t think numbers speak to him. I give him a lot of credit for realizing this early on. Back in the 1960s a Citibank offer was like a golden ticket in India. People wouldn’t leave that job, and I’m sure his View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Users? Anita Elberse and Sunil GuptaHarvard Business School Case 510-053 In January 2010, YouTube, the world's largest online video aggregator, was still seeking to become profitable. Was the time right for Google, YouTube's parent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
fewer risks for fear of making mistakes and thus losing their job? Also of interest to us is whether companies adjust their strategies based on noncompete enforcement. We might expect, for example, that unsanctioned spin-offs will distance themselves further from their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
but I would say that early intervention about the proper role of technology is important. And I think kids are super receptive to it, because what I have seen is that they watch their parents and they take cues and they're like, "You know... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
creating a personal-finance software. Intuit was established in 1983 but a string of some twenty venture-capital firms didn't believe it had much of a future. Cook, who describes himself as "risk averse," ended up draining his savings, hitting up his View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says Bradley. Freeing Gillis and Foley had taken six weeks; when Foley’s parents asked Bradley to help again, he agreed. “But Syria is not Libya. Syria is heartbreak. Syria is horrific,” he says, alluding to Foley’s execution and that of... View Details