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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
vacation, or a long vacation. I always joke. I mean, how many people do you know that have taken a long vacation? Not only does that not really exist, especially in American work culture, now we've tried to solve that View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
encouraging, though their release is. Last year marked the first time most of the leading technology companies publicly reported statistics on gender diversity. The conversation is changing. The question is no longer, does the tech industry have a gender diversity... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
value for society. You gain society’s confidence when you are seen as solving the biggest problems and contributing in ways that are innovative and imaginative. We need to return to creating real value for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial in avoiding the all-too-familiar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship - Blog - Business & Environment
cohort of similarly passionate and talented MBA students who are dedicated to working on the climate challenge. - Gaby Co Seteng I really appreciate how the ClimateCAP fellowship is focused on supporting a cohort of students all interested in the space, but pursuing... View Details
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
seats in which you now sit. Our incredible faculty taught them—and you—to engage in Active Listening , to keep an open mind, to understand and debate opposing viewpoints, and to build on each other’s ideas. Their time at Harvard Business School showed them—and you—how... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
possibly solve an organization's problems at higher levels without the organization looking at outcomes internally. Without understanding outcomes, you can't get at the issue of what works and what doesn't.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
problem solving may find that an open, collective process generates better, more creative options than a separated, sequential approach. Open negotiations can also enhance feelings of legitimacy and group... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
At HBS, an initiative is a group of people committed to change, fueled by research, and driven by the demand to solve societal issues. These communities are made up of faculty, students, and alumni and are connected with practitioners in... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Distinguished Achievement’ by an alum from Williams College, and the ‘Bert King Award for Service’ from the African American Student Union at HBS. Ebony Magazine named him one of the top 150 influential people in America. The Persistent View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
opportunities for new and creative concepts. Related to this, the consumer need for convenience will continue to explode and retailers will need to find solutions that solve problems for time-starved... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the WeChat ecosystem. The biggest and best and most inspiring tech companies are not just from Silicon Valley, they're coming from everywhere and they're being inspired by local problems that are getting View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Brookings, 2009) Abstract Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for inventories and would solve the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs because the organization's governance structures, problem View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
growth comes from three sources—marketing actions (price and advertising), direct network effects (e.g., buyer to buyer effects), and indirect network effects (e.g., buyer to seller effects). Using this growth model we concurrently solve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne