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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Elisa:... View Details

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

data to decipher traits belonging to toxic workers. The result was anonymized personal data of almost 60,000 workers from 11 firms, about 70 percent of which were based in the United States. The positions were similar front-line, customer View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

Source: iStock If you’re stressed out because it feels like there are never enough hours in the day, here’s a solution: hire a housecleaner, order takeout, and pay the kid next door to mow the lawn. In other words, buy yourself more free... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

of that firm's affiliate activity in their native countries. Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the... View Details

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Morgan Hall | About

stone facility housed offices for the Dean, faculty, research staff, and administrative personnel, as well as accounting laboratories, research rooms, and a laboratory of... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

Administration (WPA), taught finance at Howard University, and was executive secretary in the Urban League of Canton, Ohio. Monroe Davis Dowling, MBA 1931 Upon graduation from HBS, Monroe Davis Dowling... View Details

17 Apr 2019
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How Managers Stifle Creativity

matters. If people lack that meaning, it's very hard for them to stay intrinsically motivated and creative. Many managers don't realize how necessary it is to help people understand the importance of their work. A status quo bias. Some... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Valerie Porciello | About

called the Division of Research and Faculty Development (DRFD), the 300-person organization includes faculty administration, research administration, and a wide array of faculty research, teaching, View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab Stephen G. Pagliuca (MBA 1982) & Judy M. Pagliuca (MBA 1983) The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab was made possible by the support and generosity of Judy M. Pagliuca (MBA 1983) View Details

19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

On the face of it, social marketing is a cinch. Here's one scenario. You as a marketer want people who are living in poverty to take better care of their health. So, given your profession, what do you do? You can persuade them—through public View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Oct 2021
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Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

Private Equity Group, and executive chairman of the firm’s private equity business in Asia. Melwani’s support for the School stems from the deep impact his two years in the MBA Program have had on his life... View Details

17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

networking, efforts to support innovation in Japanese business as well as community service and charitable works. “HBS has a great brand and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

prosocial behavior associated with licensing. The results of a laboratory experiment and a large field experiment converge to support our account. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

leadership, modesty, and service to business and society,” added Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), who has served as the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

impressive model for multilingual collections.” We encourage use of the CEM interviews to support a diverse array of research projects and questions. For academic works, we ask that you credit CEM using the... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics

academia. The three areas have more in common than many think, Laidler-Kylander says. Best practices in leadership and management are applicable everywhere, but nonprofits come with additional organizational challenges. There’s often a... View Details

Keywords: April White

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