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- September 2015
- Case
GovDelivery
By: Mitchell Weiss
Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off... View Details
Keywords: GovDelivery; Public Entrepreneurship; B2G; Business-to-Government; Scott Burns; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Venture Capital; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Web Services Industry; Minnesota; United States
Weiss, Mitchell. "GovDelivery." Harvard Business School Case 816-020, September 2015.
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
speculates, apprentices are given more discrete tasks that are easier to follow. That doesn’t mean that the latter fields aren’t candidates for apprenticeship, he adds, only that extra care must be taken to provide additional structure. Not all students succeed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Apr 2015
- HBS Seminar
Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
NOWaccount
By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley
It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, William A. Sahlman, and Lauren Barley. "NOWaccount." Harvard Business School Case 814-048, October 2013. (Revised August 2016.)
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his new home, first in trading and later... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
working-class women about diminished possibilities for their husbands and sons to provide for their families. Many supporters’ families work in blue-collar occupations such as construction, transportation, and infrastructure; live in low... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
history on my grandpa’s walking tours of Lagos Island, celebrating Eid holidays with family, and working on craft projects with my twin sister. My family bonded over storytelling. Older family members... View Details
- 2025
- Book
Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram
Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details
Keywords: Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram. Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Routledge, 2025.
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
product. For some families in Asia, however, a rice cooker is often the only means of cooking meals. To simulate that the experience, one student went two weeks eating only what he could cook in a rice cooker—breakfast, lunch, and dinner.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Express Chairman Emeritus, The Vanguard Group It’s 6 a.m. on a Sunday and Jack Brennan is making pancakes for his grandson, Jack, taking advantage of an opportunity to spend quality time with his namesake as the rest of the family sleeps.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
responsibility for myself.” Her tight-knit family included two grandmothers who were a key part of her upbringing, as was church. While her faith was—and remains—solidly Catholic, she also attended a Baptist church so that she could sing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
go further still, and teach that we have obligations to intangible legal entities like corporations. This aspect of business ethics can raise some practical difficulties. It is relatively easy and natural for a person to remember the interests of friends and View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Now Starring: Single Dad
WAND: With Robby, at HBS. Courtesy John Wand John Wand (MBA ’81) was about to enroll in Harvard College when his high-school sweetheart in Boise, Idaho, told him she was pregnant. The couple married and moved to Cambridge, but after a couple of years, Wand’s wife left... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
development of “Toraya,” a case by Professor Lauren Cohen, which explores how Mitsuharu Kurokawa, the 18th-generation leader of family firm Toraya Confectionery Co., faces the challenge of expanding the company’s product line to please... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jan 2022
- News
Making Peace with Anger
that my relationships with them transformed from being, I think, great relationships with care from Dad, but much, much more fully loving them for the boys that they are and rather than the boys that I, if you will, wanted them to be. DM: It wasn’t just the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
career path and hope for this community,” he says. The students may fill an acute need for workers in the near term, but that isn’t necessarily the endpoint. Jamaal, 15, plans to attend medical school. Waltkia, also 15, is often first in the class to raise her hand;... View Details
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Projects - Business History
faculty members with leaders or former leaders of businesses and NGOs. These videotaped interviews with men and women of diverse backgrounds address pivotal moments of transition in their regions. They contain compelling insights on entrepreneurship, innovation, View Details