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11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

things.” ClimaCell isn’t stopping with gathering data. The company has a team of atmospheric scientists in Boulder, Colorado, building proprietary weather models, allowing them to create historic, real-time, short-term, and long-term forecasts. Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

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Elisabeth Ndour

HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents a whole new level of... View Details

10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details

June 1995
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Northern Telecom and Tong Guang Electronics (B): Building Success

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Pamela A. Yatsko

This case continues the story of the joint venture in China between Northern Telecom (Nortel) of Canada and Tong Guang Electronics of China. It shows how North Americans learned to operate in a very different cultural environment in China and provides an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Joint Ventures; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Culture; Telecommunications Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Canada; China

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15 Jan 2025
Podcast

OneTen CEO Debbie Dyson: Why "skills-first" builds a better workforce

In taking aim at degree inflation, the corporate-led good jobs coalition looks to boost economic opportunity, address skills gaps, and create a more equitable and inclusive workforce. OneTen helps employers navigate the uncertain new normal of hiring and advancement... View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

features. "Do I want my business phone to play music?" The key to living in a multiple-device life is a standard way of sharing information between devices, such as via data cards and network communication, said Susan K. DelBene, vice president of marketing,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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MBA Program at Harvard Business School: 1963 - 1970 | Baker Library

supportive networks, and in 1972, students created the Women's Student Association. Focused on women's issues both at Harvard Business School and in business, the organization continues to foster "a community that empowers and mobilizes... View Details

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Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success - Recruiting

capital to navigate an environment and institution like HBS,” Bedford explained. “Low-income and first-gen students should be able to participate fully. We want to ensure that they can be the rocket ships for social mobility and potential... View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert Smith. The View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together for years, they had to find new ways of working as they tried to launch the new mobile... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru

lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

institutions, so that’s different too. However, while the retail investors are smaller, they are also better armed because of social media. As we’ve seen with GameStop, this allows them to mobilize in ways that make them better able to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

body coaches on training, nutrition, and cognitive health. Meanwhile, the team is also focused on product development in the consumer goods space and growing their e-commerce business. In addition, the company has a mobile app and has... View Details

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

Technology is changing everything about how we shop. Two decades ago when we needed something, we went to the store. That’s what we’d done for hundreds of years. Then we began to turn to the computer. Now shopping means reaching for our phones; today, over half of all... View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Sep 2021
News

Sewn with Love

established to mobilize the American workforce quarantined at home, and began offering their MadeByUS kits that include everything—from assembly instructions to precut gown panels—for anyone with a sewing machine and knowledge of fabric... View Details

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

back from a near death experience after what should be an initial fanfare around the return of Demoulas to the chief executive's office. But few organizations are structured to accommodate this practice. Perhaps most important, it assumes a level of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

sample company invested in marketing, ex ante, at levels close to those that would have maximized returns, observed ex post. Managing Creativity in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:California Management Review 48, no. 4 (summer 2006) Abstract... View Details