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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better sleep, and there’s cost savings... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
prove their efficiency to continue to receive adequate budgetary funding. Therefore government hospitals are more likely to use accounting information to gain legitimacy with stakeholders and regulators. Accordingly, we predict a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
positions such as commission-based sales in efficient and liquid markets—do not need wide spans of support. In fact, such organizations generally operate more efficiently with narrow spans, since each job is... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
meetings. In addition, since meetings have a start and finish time and are usually expected to be run very efficiently, everyone has probably experienced a "checklist" atmosphere. A: Leaders need to be careful about trying to maximize the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
in its marketing. In the period since the Internet boom, there have been a large number of very conspicuous successes.—John A. Deighton Physical distribution of groceries in the United States is a marvel of logistics. It's amazingly View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
energy projects, Diana is equally stimulated and frustrated by the challenges of slowing climate change, before it’s too late.* “The U.S. electric grid is the largest machine on the planet. Our grid is holding back the United States’ ability to transition quickly and... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others often have a different word for... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
generally more similar in quality than two randomly selected brands," Sheen says. More generally, the findings show that merged companies often follow through on the operational efficiencies that they promise to their shareholders.... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Harvard Business School, professor Ananth Raman discussed the importance of empathy in customer-facing business. "As we're talking about things like retail efficiency and profitability, this is a topic that I think needs more attention,"... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high population living in close quarters within any individual area. Inner cities can also boast View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
Corruption Boat Ezekwesili agreed that it is important to make government more efficient to do "what it ought to be doing." Citizens should reduce the level of discretionary power that government officials hold, she said,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
conference featuring four graduating students working on climate in a different ways. In the final session with Matheson, three panelists presented mini-TED talks on their ventures: Danielle Colson (MBA 2022), founder and COO of Mantel, described their breakthrough,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
in-person pitches to miners and smelters around the world—estimating that they personally reached about 80 percent of the market—explaining how Open Mineral would make them more efficient and profitable, as well as collecting their... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
and more marketable to employers,” says Paul. While his favorite module was economics, he is already utilizing the business analytics tools he mastered in CORe. “Being able to create histograms to quickly visualize data makes me more View Details
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
UNext: Business Education and e-Learning
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Competition; Disruptive Innovation; Performance Efficiency; Higher Education; Learning; Education Industry
Rukstad, Michael G., David J. Collis, and Tyrell Levine. "UNext: Business Education and e-Learning." Harvard Business School Case 701-014, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
nodules from CT scans. As I looked at the business opportunity for commercializing such a platform, the capital efficiency of pure software products became clear and I began looking for new opportunities within this area. Over the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
efficient and develop yourself.” Build your own brand. You need to understand your own narrative and purpose—and share it widely, through conferences, social media, networking, and media interviews: “I was ‘the airline guy’ already at... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details