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  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator

The Clinical Trial of the Future? HBS Case Collection Innovative Incentives and Biomarkers HBS Case Collection Investment Cases Dementia Discovery Fund HBS Case Collection Impact View Details
  • February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Doing Business in Nairobi, Kenya

By: Archie L. Jones, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Kuria Kamau
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Nairobi, Kenya. It highlights Kenya's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

the records of innovative companies and leaders who have shaped the world economy. The contemporary corporate archives prioritize the records of groundbreaking companies and businesspeople considered essential to the development of the... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change

out how business can do things better. This is a major international problem, and it will need a framework of policies to make a big difference.” Pat Coady, an investment banker and environmentalist who founded the Northern Virginia Land... View Details
  • 01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

funding to invest in innovation. That's an important part of what this campaign will help to achieve." A crucial element of support for the innovative work of the School and its faculty is the HBS Fund for... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

quickly. This series will take you inside the world of carbon capture, guided by innovators and experts at the forefront of the movement who will help you understand what is possible. Can we really engineer a climate fix? But first, we're... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

    Lewis W. Lehr

    In his first year at the helm of 3M, Lehr presided over a major reorganization of the company’s diversified operations into 4 distinct divisions. The new and improved 3M began to focus on quality and innovation, as Lehr invested heavily... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      David Duffield

      After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative... View Details
      Keywords: Computers & Electronics
      • 01 Jun 2022
      • News

      Students Ready to Make an Impact

      those who have a passion to found, work at, or invest in a startup, HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and HBS’s close ties to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details
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      Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

      continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including... View Details
      • 24 Jan 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

      By: Kerr, William R., and Ufuk Akcigit Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Kraft Accelerator

      TRIALS (pdf) THE PHARMA NONPROFIT SWEET SPOT (pdf) Investment and Venture Finding a cure takes money—and lots of it. By innovating investment models, we can help to minimize... View Details
      • 18 Oct 2016
      • News

      China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

      investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Myers
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      Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

      Working Knowledge Finance and Investing Crypto Is Growing Up. Are Companies Ready? Blockchain is so much more than Bitcoin, and the technology can be used to protect itself against cyber crime, says Daniel Rabetti. By Rachel Layne on May... View Details
      • 01 Jan 2008
      • News

      John Doerr, MBA 1976

      a dramatic impact on life in the 21st century, from online retail giant Amazon.com to Internet behemoth Google to synthetic biology leader Amyris. Doerr has become a leading advocate of innovation and View Details
      • 09 Jan 2019
      • News

      Why New England Needs New Ideas

      have to be the end of economic opportunity in a community,” they write. “History has shown us, time and again, that real opportunity doesn’t require billions of dollars of investment or the backing of Silicon Valley or Boston. Successful... View Details
      Keywords: New England
      • February 2023 (Revised March 2025)
      • Case

      Doing Business in Accra, Ghana

      By: Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Leonard Schlesinger and Namrata Arora
      This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Ghana. It highlights Ghana economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Agribusiness; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ghana
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      • 25 Aug 2022
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      Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

      FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES What are some of the trends you’ve identified within this rapid change? KL: We see three distinctive trends. One is nonstop and relentless investment in digitalization. The second is an emphasis on... View Details
      Keywords: April White