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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
digital turnaround was Justin Smith, a young, up-and-coming media professional with the ability to forge new alliances between editorial content and technology. “That recruitment was hard,” he recalls. The two met for dinner in 2007 at the Carlyle, a View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
governments worldwide collected fees and taxes. To use the company's own phrase, govWorks was about "all payments for all governments." (The film Startup.com featured the company.) Soon after Herman and Tuzman set up shop, they approached a venture capitalist... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract To remain a leader in innovation, the United States needs the support of foundational institutions that help seed, grow, and renew enterprises. Historically, these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details
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Zayed Muhammed Yasin
much of the funding is fad-based and politically driven. Second, there's no feedback from the end-user. In the donor world, what matters is not what the people being served think, but what the donors think." For Zayed, the joint... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
sector. But this research leads me to believe that the right kind of regulatory framework and institutional policies are fundamental to making it possible. Shon R. Hiatt, Assistant Professor Of Business Administration In the US, states... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Just a little about me. I grew up in a really strong military family. I was born in Okinawa, Japan. My mom and my dad were both Air Force pilots and navigators. And just like any good son, I had to do the exact opposite thing. So, for undergrad, I chose to go to the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
the CEO of the world's largest independent biomedical research and testing company. He set off on a two-year "odyssey" around the United States to try to figure out what was wrong with this country's public education system. Then he ran... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
through floor-to-ceiling windows, and were entertained by mentalists who mingled with them during cocktails before dinner. "We go all out to make it a fantastic event at every level," says Vecchione. All funds raised from the dinner help... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab
Everyone sees the potential.” With the vision and leadership of Dean Nohria, faculty chair Joe Lassiter, and director Gordon Jones, it’s little wonder that the i-lab is resonating with Harvard alumni, some of whom have stepped up with gifts in support of the effort.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in nearly 30 years. (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson (MBA 1981) was working at NASA in the late 1970s when the agency’s funding... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
stated that their ventures were separate from their parent company, but their daily work processes indicated otherwise. Online sales reps still reported to and had offices near their print managers, for example. This direct reporting and... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
a gift of $50 million from the Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust, philanthropic entities of India’s Tata Group. The gift, the largest from an international donor in the School’s 102-year history, will View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
of compatibility in recent international treaties to establish transcontinental railway networks, while highlighting the mediating influence of product market competition on the public gains to standardization. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
bespoke, and digital media. Because Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint that holds the rights to the book, lacks the funds to market Carter's memoir at a scale deserving of a superstar, Droga5 is asking Microsoft to shoulder most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
both their own companies and others in the area.” In addition to the program’s value for local companies and managers, the revenue generated supports gifts to area nonprofits and has funded scholarships for Harvard MBA students from... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
usage; however, customer-to-customer communications tended to increase personal-use engagement across latent states and in both data sets. The findings suggest that firms offering digital services should pay attention to how the mode of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman