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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they do for most of the day. People are View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
forces in a company's government, legal, and social environment. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707469 U.S. Taxation of Foreign-Source Corporate Income Harvard Business School Note 207-085 Identifies several of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
protect their environment and their people while still having a thriving industrial economy." Austin Blackmon MBA 2013 | From HBS to the Mayor's Office "Our goal is for Boston to be carbon-free by 2050. So what are the policies that we need to View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
company started out in 1984 making teapot polish in western China, and through a succession of acquisitions, it is now the 234th-largest company in the world. ChemChina recently spent $43 billion to acquire the Swiss seed giant Syngenta,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
attractive. Match.com, which got its start in 1995 when only 14 percent of American adults used the Internet, began to move online dating into the mainstream. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a boom in dating sites, such as eHarmony,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
thought that was a great starting point. So, if you peeping into my window is illegal for you to do as a human, a drone shouldn't be allowed to fly up and peer into my window. So, I think that there are things we could do to have smart... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
government as their partner because government has the potential to provide scale and permanence. But the problem is that you also need efficacy and efficiency, and the constancy of both. And for many reasons the public sector is not very... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
find that entrepreneurial leadership is key. To attract people to work with you, it is important to demonstrate that you are taking steps to address the crisis. At the same time, they must inspire people to find innovative ways to solve compelling View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the outside world that they're doing good work, in order to secure the resources needed to do that work. But the real challenge is to start with the problem that you're trying to solve, figure out the right... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
for her job interviews. So that's when on the personal level that inspiration struck me. And then I feel like on a professional level, my career up until this point had prepared me for this opportunity. I had developed a career in tech, in product management, in View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. While many classmates started out in more traditional settings, within a decade of... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
of low-cost, scalable interventions leveraging behavioral insights, and in many cases they’re being applied for the social good.” The success of BIT’s tax letter helped the organization grow. Nicknamed the “nudge unit,” BIT started with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
delivery startup Jahez was founded in September 2016, three and a half years after Doordash was founded in Palo Alto. Careem, a ride hailing service in the MENA region, was founded in the UAE in 2012, three years after Uber was started in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
on for years. Life in a growing frontier town that starts with six people and no buildings either demands frontier justice or unfolds its apparent willingness to assist the murderer's effort to avoid his fate. Indian troubles, vigilantes’... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
established practice. Companies have hired writers and chief content officers to run departments as well as create blogs and other materials—in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
2019. A single-minded focus on attracting venture funding can be deleterious for other reasons, as well. “The emphasis on growth changes what you focus on and the problems you solve as you go,” says Bahadir, who got Mesken off the ground... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
time. To try to understand why these cases are so successful, we spoke with the professors who originally wrote them and with those who still teach them. In so doing, we sprang a cold call on the professors, a question we now invite you,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons