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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
suffering—from chronic back pain, insomnia, and asthma. “My body was failing in response to the way I was approaching life,” he says now. “It was the cumulative impact of a long career of high expectations, high performance, and high... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
Insurance Corporation. Today, the FDIC is the most important ingredient brand in the world, way more important than Intel. Trust in the FDIC and the United States Government enables consumers to confidently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
firsthand experience: He spent seven weeks during January and February helping the field leadership of five United Nations relief agencies develop overall strategy and serving as deputy director for Mercy Corps, an innovator in... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge
supporting your fellow innovators, please sign up for our i-lab newsletter and follow us on social media. Watching the PIC unfold over the next six months is one way we can unite under the One Harvard... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
new IXP Twitter feed is a fun way to get an immediate sense of what a few of the four hundred or so IXP student participants are doing and seeing on a day-to-day basis during the January break. With tweets coming in from IXP sites in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason, business resources are not... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change, and is a determinant as well of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new economy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on manufacturing and planning, he served as unit head of Production... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2003. The experience of starting two inner-city schools fueled Kennealey’s interest in applying to HBS, where he has focused on developing skills in finance, strategy, and operations. “I realized that the fastest, most effective way to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
pediatric heart hospital facilities in the world." Shetty also directs telemedicine units that connect to remote areas in northeastern India, allowing physicians and technicians to communicate on acute care. Telemedicine is one View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
Starting a business is never easy. But staking your future — and your bank account — on a concept that’s never been tried before makes it especially difficult. Just ask Stephen Stuntz (MBA ’69), the founder and president of Greentech Housing Company, a start-up... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
first-movers in radio were the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading United States producers of electrical and telecommunications equipment, and the German company Telefunken, a joint venture of the two... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
rooted in the popular MBA elective, The Coming of Managerial Capitalism: The United States, an offering designed in the 1980s by HBS professors Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Richard S. Tedlow. To expand this course into the global arena... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
John Speer
retail worked.” But after weeks of studying comparable customer-loyalty programs in the United States, John and his team thought they had some solid ideas. They were wrong. “We were way off the mark,” John... View Details
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Driving Social Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Driving Social Change Background I’ve always been interested in public sector issues and what we call “institutional change,” especially change that breaks with the accepted norms. I studied the English National Health Service, focusing on those individuals who were... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Photos by Benoit Cortet Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up Springfield, Ohio, a farming community where 4-H was founded, and many of his classmates were in FFA, the Future Farmers of America. Yet Tiller’s education in agriculture and energy—and the View Details