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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Changing the Culture
To address Dean Nitin Nohria’s concern that HBS can be a difficult place for some groups to thrive, the School has launched a new Culture and Community Initiative to ensure that all members of the community... View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) to launch the Technology and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Birds and Bees in China
The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
employees, you risk more than workers dying,” agrees Ballou-Aares. “You risk losing your customers, your markets — the complete disintegration of communities where you operate.” Experts concur that China is the next potential hot spot for... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
role that is part ambassador, part recruiter. “I will pay attention to job opportunities in the Greater China area,” he says, “and pass the information along to the club members and also coordinate when people from China come to campus,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Black students from lower-income families in struggling neighborhoods—hope for a successful future. Wilfong’s fundraising, through events like a children arts auction and a community walkathon, allowed the nonprofit to make the same... View Details
- February 2014
- Technical Note
Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kerry Herman and Christine Snively
Mobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Kerry Herman, and Christine Snively. "Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011." Harvard Business School Technical Note 814-009, February 2014.
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Classics Enterprise
Robert Strassler (MBA ’61), a self-described “scholar without credentials,” worked for seven years on his own dime to produce an unlikely 1996 bestseller: The Landmark Thucydides, a reader-friendly version of the Greek philosopher’s famously dense and convoluted... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Do, Wilfong's fundraising—through events like a children arts auction and a community 5K walk and run—allowed the nonprofit to make the same commitment to the 4th graders of the following year and each of the subsequent 5 years. By the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
model where people can assess the different approaches and collaborate on refining the best solution.” Interactions with a variety of crowds — including students and exec utives in his classrooms, fellow researchers, and the HBS alumni View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- News
Exploring the American Dream: From Pakistan to HBS
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Helping the Unemployed Find Work and Self-Esteem
found work that week. “It was something the whole community could celebrate.” Since those early days in Hackney, Reed in Partnership, the welfare-to-work arm of the global Reed parent company, has placed more than 140,000 people into... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance
Why does one company succeed, while another fails? The research of Rebecca M. Henderson (MBA 1985, AM 1988, PhD 1988), University Professor, indicates that a fundamental difference concerns informal relational contracts between employers,... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Prodigy Services Company (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine
Top executives of Prodigy Services Co. must decide how to respond when publicly accused of allowing anti-Semitic messages to be posted on the electronic bulletin boards of the company's interactive computer service. Can they defend free expression while at the same... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Communication Intention and Meaning; Information Technology; Decision Making; Law; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry
Paine, Lynn S. "Prodigy Services Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 393-126, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
Singleton (MBA ’88). The trio look at what can be learned by stepping back and taking a longer term view of how some of the greatest business leaders of the last century built successful careers. The book draws on information from the... View Details