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- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
of different businesses and I learned more than I ever had. It was a formative experience for me professionally.” Deeply enjoying his work, Westphal didn’t consider an MBA originally and planned to continue on in investing. However, as he... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it invests in is “not just a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
made to limited partners when they formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup... View Details
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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity
Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then failing to follow through on... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55504 forthcoming Theoretical Economics Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract— Various View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while motivations propel them to do so. We derive a typology of network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
individuals and firms. Clerks copied the information, much abbreviated, into the ledgers, which were organized by state and then by county. The collection is notable as a source for social history as well as business history: small... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
lots of manipulating to play a little bit. To support our pedagogical mission, what we wanted was the ability to organize short clips and link them on command on our 'intranet.' Since that wasn't being done anywhere, we had to find the... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
supposed to supervise and regulate the banking function. However, it is not shadowy in the sense of lacking substance or being faint. On the contrary, a large fraction of the banking function—transforming the holdings that savers large and small want to have in liquid,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
was in addition to my duties as an assistant professor of finance. The objective was to generate reader interest in the issues beyond alumni notes. We often did this by printing faculty members' thoughts on topics relevant to managers. We usually received these... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
jointly develops an offshore tract-performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid auctions for the rights to develop leases. By focusing on leases where one organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
that strategy is being monitored on an ongoing basis," he says. “The caliber of our participants and the bonds they form is one of the program's strongest drawing points.” The southernmost point is about commitment to others.... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
minority backgrounds enter business schools as well as post-graduate employment are soon dashed by an inability or unwillingness on the part of organizations to tap into and retain that talent. In business, the economic and social cases... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversification into the technology intensive TFT-LCD flat panel display industry. Because the diversification is far away from its core competence in petrochemicals, it is an opportunity to examine how the firm was able to become a global leader in the relatively... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
where he is going, any road will take him there emphasis in original. If any road is okay, the chief executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it invests in is “not just a... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
they're often the purchasers or the influencers. So there's a lot of effort now to understand how to reach them, how to find products and services that will support what they're doing either in caregiving, but throughout the life course. And there are companies that... View Details