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Hann Yew

One might think that an HBS student with a recent victory in the Deans' Health and Life Sciences Challenge would be eager to represent her life as a success story. Instead, Hann Yew, MBA 2015, sees it as a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Healthcare/Biotech

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HBS - From The Dean

dynamism of our campus while building on the knowledge and skills we had gained in hybrid learning and remote work. Our new normal will be to take what we’ve always done well—teaching and research—and infuse it with new tools and platforms to extend our reach and View Details

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

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Nabihah Sachedina

rebounds and readmissions. Patients experienced unnecessarily long stays and treatment delays.” Driven to find a better way, Nabihah left clinical practice to spend a year with the World Health Organization and the UK Department of... View Details

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Mira Mehta Archives | Social Enterprise

Social Enterprise Track of the HBS New Venture Competition, we ... From HBS to Nigerian tomato fields: launching a dream into reality Mira Mehta 25 Jan 2018 In 2008, I quit my job and moved from New Jersey to Nigeria to work for the Clinton View Details

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in... View Details

06 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

MBA/MPP degree at HBS and Harvard Kennedy School, Inessa helped expand the reach of the HBS Design Club, and fulfilled a field project at Harvard Art Museums that developed art workshops designed around specific group interests. One thing her work never touched upon... View Details

13 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology

Henry’s 2017 Fellowship year drew him into “ambitious tech projects solving big challenges in the city. This is not tech for tech’s sake, but to address issues like housing, transportation, and access to city hall.” Among Henry’s first... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Nonprofit / Government

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally applicable was a matter of discussion among respondents to this... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their businesses for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2017
News

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

innovation is accelerating rapidly, and means big changes and challenges for the sector. We are seeing rapid changes both in traditional retailers and in startups. The largest traditional retailers are... View Details

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

16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

to let other people run something you’ve started—especially when you’re emotionally invested—but we knew this was the right decision,” says David. “We trusted MSK; our interests were aligned, and they had the experience, infrastructure, and network to View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

III Faculty Fellow, guides students through some of the most challenging dilemmas in the business world. In the spring of 2021, all 720 members of the first-year MBA Program’s Required Curriculum class—some attending in person, some... View Details

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

02 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

guess what? It worked. In research released last July, MIT’s Jean-Noel Barrot and the Harvard Business School’s Ramana Nanda found that among firms who were recipients of QuickPay payments, there was a payroll increase of 10 cents for each View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

March 2010 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon

Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, have spent the last six months planning and preparing for a national Kenyan program to target school children most at risk for parasitic worm infection. One week after its launch, the program seemed to be going well but... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Mission and Purpose; Performance Efficiency; Programs; Problems and Challenges; Research; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Kenya

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Purchase

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy for Health Care Delivery course, which examines the high-level strategic and organizational challenges in implementing value-based care. This invitation-only program is designed for top management;... View Details

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Vasilis Theodorou Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details

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