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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
interests align? Kash Rangan: At its core, the private sector has always been about value creation—producing goods and services valued by consumers, generating employment, and delivering profits for shareholders. Nothing has changed in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
enterprises delivering high-impact goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income populations, which he cofounded in 2007. At HBS, his work examines businesses serving low-income markets around the world, which means he is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations | Information Technology
From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations By Annie Harrison on January 9, 2025 Image generated using AI Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time,... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
of directors recognized the immediate past copresidents, Eduardo Russian (MBA 2018), Shirley Cardona (MBA 2012), and Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) for their service to the club. Board member Eric Calderon (MBA 2013) gave an update on Latino... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
LST (landing ship tank), where he shared a command over 150 sailors. “It was a great leadership experience,” Quainton says. “I had to learn how to make a team out of men who’d come from vastly different experiences and education.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
20 student and alumni finalist teams pitched for a share of the $315,000 in cash as well as in-kind prizes. The top four teams in each of the three tracks—Student Business, Student Social Enterprise, and Alumni—made it through a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
"My wife says I flunked retirement," says Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979) with a laugh. Maybe so, but he clearly has never flunked anything else. The holder of 10 university degrees, including six honorary doctorates, the recipient of government View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
easy way to make a little bit more progress and feel like you're having more control.” About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/serts] What's the best financial advice you've ever received?... View Details
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Philipp Schäelli
would be the ideal place to achieve all these 3 goals. It's very strong reputation and career support services allowed me to explore all types of different career options. With the strong foundation of the first year curriculum, and the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
Paper: How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? Research Paper: How Can Decision Making Be Improved? What do you think of this research? How much intuition goes into your own decision-making? Share your insights below. View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
of geographic space in establishing networks." The Vital Network Venture capital shares some of the same qualities as the life sciences industry in terms of the crucial role played by networks, Stuart says. "Networks are... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
Cars negated the ability to interact with people on the streets. As it turned out, cops did a better job fighting crime when they sought input from the public. That had happened organically when they walked their beats. And by sharing... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
senior researcher in the Global Research Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School's curriculum. "There's one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- Web
Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
coincidence that Tierney is also co-founder with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) of The Bridgespan Group, an organization launched in 1999 that provides management consulting and leadership development services to nonprofits, philanthropists,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
Three stories in this issue will introduce you to remarkable individuals who work in strikingly different fields but who share a common passion — the pursuit of ideas that are changing the way others think and act. Gayle Lemmon (MBA ’06),... View Details