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- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
than 300 minority students in gaining admission to top 10 deferred MBA programs and securing highly competitive full-time career positions. Devon intends to continue this work by investing in underrepresented entrepreneurs through venture capital and View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
entrepreneurs had a difficult, if not impossible, time raising capital. Banks were ultraconservative, reluctant to lend money to unproven ventures. Sure, rich families like the Rockefellers invested in new companies, but they were few and hard to reach. ARD promised to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
efforts, with satellite stores outside the museum and Web and catalog sales bringing in significant income. Sensory overload can easily sap a museum-goer's energy, and taking a break from the collections to eat is often an effective... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
pulling their teams together to discuss future initiatives, intent on breaking down silos. Chris Kempczinski’s office—once inhabited by McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc—is just up the hall. “Chris has made himself incredibly available for me... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
nearly fifty former executives--many of whom have never spoken about their crimes—Professor Soltes shows that white-collar criminals are not merely driven by excessive greed or hubris, nor do they usually carefully calculate the costs and benefits before View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
people have heard the word, bitcoin than blockchain. And bitcoin-- I think-- most people will recognize as a digital currency. And let me take a break here, to say, it's like being able to email someone money and if you look at the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
recall two instances when he went out of his way to help me in my career. Toward the end of my first year at the school, I had a summer job offer which was cancelled about a month before the summer break would occur because of some... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Abstract—We explore the relationship between managerial incentives and misconduct using the setting of environmental harm. We find that high-powered executive compensation can increase the odds of environmental law breaking by 40%–60% and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
makes Red Chaos a thriller to be read like breaking news. This is the third novel in the acclaimed Red Hotel series by thriller masters Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman. Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
to bed, and all of a sudden your cell phone rings and it’s some emergent work issue and you have to take a call and you find yourself beating yourself up because there you go, breaking your promise. You were going to spend time with your... View Details
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Looking into the not-too-distant future of tomorrow’s sustainable cities Breaking News With a novel funding and ownership model, the National Trust for Local News offers a path to keep local newspapers in local hands—and sustained for the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million in cash and $5 million in media assets, will focus on six areas identified with the help of community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
pension funds was infrastructure debt securities. Until recently, few Nigerian infrastructure securities had strong enough credit ratings to be investable by cautious pension funds. Infrastructure Credit Guarantee Company (InfraCredit) hoped to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
the ways that firms have sought to "game" the system. We explore why the system is breaking down and propose a way in which standard setting could be redesigned to address these problems. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding