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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution . Nava Correa, Arturo: Logra Tu Dream: How 50 Successful Latinos & Latinas Turned Their Dreams Into Reality. Nwuneli, Ndidi: Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling... View Details
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Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) - Blog - Business & Environment
immerse into the reality of the possible paths forward (trigger warning: many are quite dire). John Doerr 's " Speed & Scale " site (and book) - study the solution areas, tools and OKRs to see what can and must be done, and how well we... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
2008, the nonprofit has grown to a staff of 35, who work with 2,500 volunteers each year and 50 partner organizations. Before the pandemic, Grumhaus, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and founding team member of City Year in Chicago, was preparing to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
some storage, is not viable at the scale of energy storage India requires. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is already growing in India and plants can be located on more compact parcels. At present, there are several new reactors under... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
of systemic issues that have gradually worsened since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. At the heart of the problem lies the consulting firms’ aggressive pursuit of growth as their primary objective, which has fundamentally reshaped their View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
scenarios. “You may not have adequately assessed how comfortable you would be with a slower pace. Or, you may find that you’ve packed too many activities in and want to scale back. That’s why it is important to build flexibility into your... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people imagine as an individual... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
datasets) is positively correlated with dispersion among experts' forecasts. Further we use longitudinal datasets with sales forecasts made three-nine months before earnings report date for retailers and manufacturers to show that the effects of dispersion and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into thriving adult lives. My role this summer involves supporting... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
of design thinking—which is where you find the creativity, empathy, and human-centered work. But creative solutions need good testing. Without it you’re going to waste a lot of money scaling solutions that won’t work. And that’s the hole... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
coming to HBS, that means identifying problems and dreaming up new solutions—that may or may not work. Cities and towns can experiment with bold ideas, discard those that don’t accomplish their goals, and scale those that do. Weiss calls... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
businesses from startup to scale up. An entrepreneur in the dental equipment business had just serviced a large government contract, which created issues with inventory. He went through our training program, applied for a low-interest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” “I don’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
three things that are very interesting. One is that it is enabling innovators, often user innovators, to get the funding they need, to do what they need and scale it. Before, you had to go to venture capitalists. Now, you can rely on the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
each one, they rated the behavior on a scale of "not at all unethical" to "extremely unethical" and answered questions about whether they themselves had ever engaged in that behavior. “We basically sat down together and brainstormed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
anticipated benefits of geographic expansion failed to materialize, while other benefits seemed to exceed expectations. Economies of scale were actually less than anticipated for branch, affiliate, and plural organizations, and tapping... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
pricing, and more. The annual capital budget for New York City alone is about in excess of $5 billion. In London it is £6.3 billion, or more than $10 billion. Add up the major cities of the world, and that's a lot of direct procurement power. Neighborhoods, districts,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
A Summer Reflection
Q&A with the CEO, watched a golf tournament from the CFO’s house, and had a training on strategic thinking led by the SVP of corporate strategy (an HBS alumna). Beyond this, I had the chance to meet several SVPs to discuss my project or my career ambitions.... View Details