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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
from the atmosphere annually. The revised Section 45Q substantially increases subsidies for direct-air capture (DAC), which removes carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, and makes the incentives available to smaller companies—changes that Lee believes will help the... View Details
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Jason Flood
about the future of tech. Google was my dream job—and I got it. I had a fantastic experience there, and my life plan was to scale the ranks at Google.” But his cancer experience, Jason says, “inspired a passion to get involved in health... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
year, D^3 has scaled to support 12 labs involving 34 faculty members on topics ranging from digital reskilling to pricing to customer intelligence to trustworthy AI. As part of our endeavor to elevate the role of business in society,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Shift—I manage finance, I manage our marketing team, I manage the board, I manage recruiting.” While it’s been a departure, Ingersoll says the role has remained consistent from the way it was described during her first interview for the job: “How can I help this... View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
with the intent of scaling BIPOC-led and owned small businesses. The team believes that HBS students are uniquely positioned to support these kinds of investments, which typically have smaller ticket sizes, because they can bring down the... View Details
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Learn how to launch and scale a successful platform business and compete against others in the same space. "This was an excellent course with concepts that were immediately applicable to my consulting... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
in sport. Tampa Bay is historically a non-traditional hockey market. The case has substantial comparative team and league data. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-030 Facebook—Can Ethics View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that are made in that process? “The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
sectionmate, witnessing him scale great heights, what a thrill it is to read of the amazing difference that Pierre is now making in this world! We all knew he was destined for big things, but this clearly takes it into another dimension.... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
begins and ends with me... Social Enterprise Scale-Ups: Creating Ripples of Global Good Randy Haykin 14 Dec 2017 For the past five years, I’ve been developing an approach to scaling of social enterprises that I... Simple Lessons, Shared... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
example helped Cassell consider becoming a teacher himself. "It was fascinating to observe how Steve's channeling of the children's excitement about their ideas led students to 'discover' things such as drawing to scale and abstract... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
three things that are very interesting. One is that it is enabling innovators, often user innovators, to get the funding they need, to do what they need and scale it. Before, you had to go to venture capitalists. Now, you can rely on the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
each one, they rated the behavior on a scale of "not at all unethical" to "extremely unethical" and answered questions about whether they themselves had ever engaged in that behavior. “We basically sat down together and brainstormed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
anticipated benefits of geographic expansion failed to materialize, while other benefits seemed to exceed expectations. Economies of scale were actually less than anticipated for branch, affiliate, and plural organizations, and tapping... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
pricing, and more. The annual capital budget for New York City alone is about in excess of $5 billion. In London it is £6.3 billion, or more than $10 billion. Add up the major cities of the world, and that's a lot of direct procurement power. Neighborhoods, districts,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
datasets) is positively correlated with dispersion among experts' forecasts. Further we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made three-nine months before earnings report date for retailers and manufacturers to show that the effects of dispersion and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into thriving adult lives. My role this summer involves supporting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
of design thinking—which is where you find the creativity, empathy, and human-centered work. But creative solutions need good testing. Without it you’re going to waste a lot of money scaling solutions that won’t work. And that’s the hole... View Details