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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
capital for entrepreneurs seeking to build businesses and make a difference in their communities. The fund has dual goals of creating social change and the pursuit of reasonable investment returns, allowing...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
of benchmarking when used to assess the performance of human resources, information technology, finance, and other internal support or shared services groups. In our...
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- 2018
- Working Paper
Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment
By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these...
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Employees;
Decision Making;
Training;
Performance Improvement;
Money;
Mobile Technology;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Services Industry
Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian. "Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-106, May 2018.
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
reaching, and extracting the trapped miners. Senior leaders in the Chilean government provided resources to support the on-site efforts. How senior leadership triggered extreme teaming In Santiago, Chile’s...
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
suggests that appetitive rather than consummatory activity may best predict future choice and consumption. These findings imply that distinguishing appetite from consumption may improve predictions of future choice View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
system has no value for, and therefore cannot attract, users. Without a solid user base, no application developer will be interested in supporting that operating system. If the platform vendor decides to...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
studies that highlight the opportunities and challenges facing business leaders and managers around the world, the School relies on the expertise and connections of staff...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- May 2022
- Case
Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith and Nicole Tempest Keller
As COVID-19 swept across the globe in 2020, the education sector faced unprecedented disruption. Schools and colleges worldwide shut down, forcing over a billion students and teachers to move to online learning. Investor interest in the EdTech space exploded as...
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Edtech;
Technology;
Online Learning;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Education;
Information Technology;
Venture Capital;
Change Management;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago;
California
Sahlman, William A., Michael D. Smith, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 822-131, May 2022.
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Health Care Health Care February 2015 Supplement The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of Representatives By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris In early 2009, the Obama View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
are you working on next? A: Given the success we've had with the structure of this novel in classrooms and with readers so far, with the support of our talented Harvard Business Press team, we're extending...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
knowledge. Using a multi-method field study across two professional service firms to refine and test the proposed model, I also find that only the use of client-specific expertise (not the expertise of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Hewlett-Packard, Financial Analyst 1974 Named Assistant Administrator, Federal Energy Administration 1981 Cofounds Applied Energy Services 1991 AES goes public 1991 Establishes The Summit Foundation 1994...
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Susan Young
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Women at HBS - Alumni
alumnae's experiences at and beyond HBS. 800 alumni attended the two-day W50 Summit on campus April 4–5, 2013 to celebrate the anniversary; hear keynote speakers Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), Administrator...
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
collaboration with Alumni Career Services and Baker Library, provides resources and support to assist alumni pursuing careers in social...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Council on Foreign Relations 2007 Becomes chair of Maine's Council on Competitiveness and the Economy 2009 Named administrator of the US Small Business Administration...
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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters, has seen its stock price fall from 230 pence to a low of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
doing a terrible job of it, with little preparation and training for middle managers primarily responsible for the success of the process. Also, the impact of remote work on organization culture has yet to be determined. We can assume...
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by James Heskett