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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
inventory without the need to step foot in a bookstore; and then Amazon launched the Kindle e-book service in 2007, challenging the very idea of a physical book. “Not only had the traditional buying channels fundamentally shifted, but the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
not be sufficient. I would like the next recession to come after we’ve had a chance to give proper management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different aproach in the... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
about language. Too often, talented professionals don't get the support or the training necessary to bring up their level of language competence, and that is why organizations need a language strategy. It's so fundamental and it drives... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
favor of helping customers create and strengthen relationships with each other. These relationships are in exchange for the customers doing various tasks for the company for free. The distinction between digital and social strategies is a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally new and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
receive training, help facilitate the conversation, and participants represent a diverse range of ages, industries, and career stages. Circles are managed by volunteers, and each region has a leadership committee. “Advice from members of my Circle group has View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
whose work has had a major impact on modern financial markets." "We are enormously proud that Bob Merton has received this honor," noted HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. "He has made and continues to make fundamental contributions to finance and... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
fundamentally understand the business. And that means a fundamental rethinking of how boards operate. This going back to the drawing board, Lorsch and Carter conclude, includes reviewing the roles boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
that was poorly conceived, inadequately reviewed, discriminatory, counterproductive, and fundamentally anti-American” After reading the petition and the news reports on the executive order, the decision was fast and easy. President... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Research. “It’s intrinsically satisfying to be at the rock face of a change like that, trying to sort out what is going to happen.” “The fundamental shift in expectation that you can access any type of content, any time, on any screen is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
fundamental issues.” —Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) After founding a microfinance investment fund called the Dignity Fund in 2005 with Elizabeth Collet Funk (MBA 1996), she started Elevar in 2008, widening the investment scope to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Rakhshan Zahid
Now I’m a believer. For instance, I wouldn’t have volunteered to take a course on operations. But after taking the course, I can see that operations are fundamental to any business you might be involved in. The second thing is that HBS... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- Profile
Rye Barcott
says Rye. "When you show a genuine interest in their lives, they open up and share their innovative ideas." One was simple yet brilliant: a community soccer league that could bring different ethnic groups together and promote leadership. "My View Details
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Digital Marketing & AI Workshop - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Digital Marketing & AI Workshop Course Number 1995 Lecturer Jacob Cook Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Overview This hands-on EC course covers the fundamentals of modern digital marketing, including driving traffic,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans’ research is driven by a fundamental question: What makes us happy? Is it having plenty of money? Or time? Research by Whillans... View Details