Reaching Your Potential - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Feb 2021
Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

Picture yourself in the 4th grade. Are you looking up at your teacher as you hand in your math worksheet? Standing on your tip toes to reach the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Resource Management, Improving Resilience Among Employees High in Depression, Anxiety, and Workplace Distress (pdf), which shows that a workplace-based wellness program can help employees suffering from mental health issues. A potential... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

mobile money service, so it’s important for operators to reach out to regulators early to gather input. Lal found that a test-and-learn approach is best, with regulators establishing guidelines that allow mobile money operators to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

them from reaching the research storage. But personal devices may not have similar protections. If you should receive a message from HBS IT or RCS about virus-containing files in your home or project spaces,... View Details

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Use and Permissions Publishing Materials from Special Collections & Archives We want to know about your research. Special Collections & Archives is interested in learning more about the impact of our collections. Please complete our Use... View Details

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

must analyze the risk in continuing with the project, the potential benefits from product simplification and the potential benefits from improving the leak resistance. The students must also review the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Portrait Project

Robert Schwartz

I will fight contentment. I want to be happy, of course. But not content. Never content. I will choose to engage. Not just listen, but feel. Not just talk, but connect. Not just reach out, but touch. I will ache with ambition. To... View Details

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Oded Navon

pivoting from the public to private sector, and getting a Harvard MBA in particular would catapult me toward making large-scale impact. Coming to HBS is like... ...thinking you've reached the top of Mount Everest, only to realize there's... View Details

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Michael O. Braimah

marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small... View Details

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

your non-tangible assets to show appreciation, which might be as mundane as providing staff with recreational opportunities to relieve stress. Showing that you care can sometimes make a critical difference in the organization’s ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

not the right one, you reach a fork in the road – do you keep pushing to find the right solution, or do you decide to end your startup pursuit altogether? Founders who iterate through new ideas are showing,... View Details

13 Aug 2019
Blog Post

What is the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program?

Cara Sterling, the Director of the HBS Health Care Initiative, and get your top questions about the new program answered. View Video Clear Admit Podcast : Insights into Harvard’s New Joint Degree, MS/MBA Biotechnology – Life Sciences... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Marketing

Highlights from Baker Library resources helpful for marketing & sales planning and applications for early stage ventures. Below are some suggested resources for your EM project. Get 1/1 help with a librarian: Request a... View Details

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

Taking a risk by breaking with standard operating procedure can make your company more innovative. Credit: maxsattana In addition to creating a new company that is disrupting the status quo, many founders are also challenging the old... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

ongoing mission that I’m dedicated to pursuing,” she says. Tantawy adds that HBS equipped her with the business insights and acumen needed for the role and to reach her goals for the company. “I had always known the ‘what,’ but HBS gave... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

company. “There’s a large, addressable market for sales engagement software that modernizes the workflow of customer-facing reps,” she says. “And with intelligent data in our solution, you have the potential for a winner-takes-all... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

versions, we will add support for other online marketplaces,” the researchers write on the site debiasyourself.org. The tool also allows guests to peruse potential rental properties without seeing profile pictures of the hosts. Is it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture

proposition, and is this something you are passionate about and willing to spend the next 10 years investing in, because startups are not a short journey.” Once you have your hypothesis ready, put it out there to get as much feedback as... View Details

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