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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington launched Grown &... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
work, in particular the relationship between investors and management. It was that dynamic that propelled him to HBS three years later. “HBS kicked my butt,” he recalls, recalling his experiences with professors Michael Porter, Jeffry... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information Economics and Policy (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53182 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests By: Kohavi, Ron, and Stefan H. Thomke... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
216-079 The Role of the Chief Financial Officer This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
back to the studio to use as they wish, giving the creators ownership of their IP. “When HBS writes the case about Quibi, one of the things I’m sure they’ll talk about is this decision to not compete with our suppliers,” Toubassy says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
skills,” he says. Kennealey hopes one day to apply those newfound skills to creating Nativity International, a network of tuition-free schools in Third World countries, or by launching an online high school. More immediately, he is... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
spiritual pursuit so much as it is a $16 billion global brand, with a number of HBS alumni involved in that transformation. Once limited to the devotees of a handful of swamis and gurus who introduced the practice to the West in waves... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
where Mikitani graduated in 1993, he began to formulate ideas for his own venture. Studying hundreds of cases of startup success, he was transformed. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus , which is open to students as well. Benefits of membership include access to the online membership database and participation in Harvard’s large LGBT community. There are also several networking and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
genocide. As his goals for starting and running educational ventures expanded, he set his sights on HBS to deepen his finance and leadership skills and to acquire a more strategic worldview. “Coming from a nonprofit background, I figured... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details