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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
connections with individuals and groups. Comprehend. Satisfy our curiosity and master the world around us. Defend. Protect against external threats and promote justice. The extent to which a job satisfies these four drives accounts for a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
connections with individuals and groups. Comprehend. Satisfy our curiosity and master the world around us. Defend. Protect against external threats and promote justice. The extent to which a job satisfies these four drives accounts for a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
Yahoo is able to collect data, such as click patterns, from its users and use the information to individually "tune" searches to users' personal tendencies. Such product improvements, Horowitz said, will change the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
associate professors, Kathleen L. Valley, Robert J. Robinson, and George Wu, add to the unit's research portfolio through their differing yet complementary backgrounds. Valley examines conflicts in the workplace through the lens of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- Web
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) Course Number 1581 Senior Lecturer Gerald Chertavian Senior Lecturer Brian Trelstad Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Career Focus SESC is tailored for View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
But the article also shows how individuals behave in concert because of the self-fueling trajectory in which response provokes response, in either positive or negative directions, in what are more popularly termed winning streaks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
What were the key steps in how the Indian modern art market went from essentially a nonexistent category to one where individual paintings were being sold for millions of dollars? A: The market for modern Indian art was created in three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
share in the billion dollar DNA-synthesis market. Codon had several distinctive features for a company its size and age: it was already generating revenue from several different types of customer for its genetic products; it looked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
and implement our idea for a kids’ menu,” says Jiang. “But we discovered that the consumer preferences and concepts of a bakery were completely different in Brazil. It challenged us to understand the customers’ mind-sets,” explains... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
extraordinary social inventions. It emerges through the will of an individual who has to mobilize others—employees, customers, and investors--to join. The enterprise grows as it creates value, it adapts and evolves, and, when it stops... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control over El Salvador-based savings by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
brands in a country where small, individual stores selling no-name goods have been the rule for decades. But success doesn't arrive overnight. Biyani cited a few factors to consider when launching a retail operation in India: Foreign... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
and, at the time, CEO for Unilever in eastern Europe, as well as a theologian—at a Spirituality in Business conference in 2003, he says it was “like meeting a brother.” The two kept in touch and spent the next several years working View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
these relationships began to cross the line from traditional philanthropy to more strategic and mutually beneficial alliances, HBS professor James E. Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
who'd lost their insurance, and older people who didn't know they were eligible for Medicare. Consumers also had differing levels of enthusiasm about signing up for insurance, ranging from excited to cynical to just too busy to care. AHCT... View Details