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Ruzwana Bashir

the world from one of materialism, where we buy products (such as houses or cars or clothes), to one of experiences, where we focus on having special moments with the people we care about. Despite all the consumerism of the last 50 years,... View Details

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

owned golf chain, Golf Galaxy. The project was an ideal fit as Krantz is very interested in the future of retail and how traditional brick-and-mortar retailers can successfully incorporate consumer tech. Leveraging insights from the new Dick’s Sporting Goods View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Washington D. C., August 16, 1957 . (New York: United State Steel Corporation, 1957). 51 John F. Kennedy, News Conference, April 11, 1962, Official White House Transcript. See:... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer

relevant’ to our list of qualities, so that if you aren’t reading HBR, you are missing out.” Tell us about the recent changes at HBR and what inspired them. The house wasn’t on fire, that’s for sure — our numbers were excellent, and our... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

problem, not the root cause,” he says. To learn more about the private sector, Goodwin left the air force to work for a multinational company and to prepare for business school. But his path changed course in early 2001 when President George W. Bush’s new... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

America) relocate for economic opportunity and for lifestyle choices. At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence that South Florida housing prices are not rising as fast—and in some cases even falling—in areas with exposure to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

Express; Solomon Trujillo, president and CEO of U S West Communications; and Ann Fudge, president of Maxwell House Coffee Company and Post Cereals? How did these people of color overcome the odds and break through the glass ceiling that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

partnership with CEOSS, a 50-year-old NGO, and through other local, community-based organizations. This network approach diverges form the traditional Habitat model of building houses through HFH's own affiliate organizations, but enables... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

grew up in a house in Pakistan with nine siblings where she learned how to have productive conversations despite opposing views. Maha brought this experience from her dinner table to the case method and to the pursuit of her joint degree... View Details

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

piped to the local municipality to heat houses through district heating. In addition, sludge from fermentation processes is used to fuel incineration for the local production of biogas. Other companies involved in these exchanges include... View Details

21 Jun 2022
News

Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

before heading to Harvard Law School. He went on to serve as a Legal Aid attorney, a Providence Housing Court judge, and then a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he cofounded the Latino Policy Institute. He has... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump emphasized the power of tax cuts to drive economic growth. TCJA divided the U.S. Congress. The Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) celebrated it as "something I have been working on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

trends beyond their control. And Circuit City's dark and empty big box stores, like Detroit's boarded-up houses and overgrown factories, remind us of the failings and offer a sense of finality. That's a neat and tidy narrative to attach... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

The data comes from many censuses and surveys including the American Community Survey, American Housing Survey and the Economic Census. View Details

26 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

everyday lives in sync with our professional lives, and so much of what was talked about at Solutions House throughout the week was directly tied to business action. I appreciated the original, unscripted, and truthful points of view, all... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

the first typewriter on a scale for business, D&B installed a network of minicomputers in its eighty field offices that linked to the mainframes housing its central database. A firm whose credit reports and reference books had remained... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Allston

together in this cross-collaboration,” she says. As the Science and Engineering Complex, which will house SEAS, nears completion, plans for the adjacent 36-acre Enterprise Research Campus are advancing at a brisk pace. In November of last... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

How Do I Get Your Job?

of it is having a gut instinct. If you don’t have that, you can get into trouble trying to repeat past success by measuring every potential acquisition against a comparable film from the past. A film like Winter’s Bone would be a great example of that. It didn’t have... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure

someone else, you'd make room in your work to do that," he reasons. "It's the same with a trip like this. You have to organize your life to make it happen. By far the hardest part is making a commitment." With school and work taken care of, the family arranged to rent... View Details