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22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

show that (i) firms may become "more closed" in response to competition from an outside open source project; (ii) firms are more likely to open substitute, rather than complementary, modules to existing open source projects; (iii) when the products of two... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Mallika Ahluwalia

organizations doing similar work?" Applying business methods to missions Last summer, Mallika put her new business skills into practice through her internship with TechnoServe in Kampala, Uganda. "Ours was an agribusiness... View Details

18 Apr 2023
Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

together through events and programs. The club collaborates with similar clubs across Harvard University and at other business schools. It hosts social events where members can meet and connect, piloted a drop-in tutoring program leading... View Details

23 Aug 2017
News

Developing Leaders Behind Bars

area of focus as a photographer is environmental portraiture – especially humans in extreme environments. I mostly shoot in polar regions, but when I was given this opportunity, it occurred to me that humans in prison have a similar... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

pressure is the fear of losing an adequately performing CEO. To make sure this does not happen, compensation committees rely on surveys by compensation consultants about CEO pay in similar companies but without regard to company... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It

to his future. He came to HBS at the suggestion of former Boston Bruin Gordon Kluzak (MBA '98), who had made a similar transition several years earlier. Baumgartner shifted from the NHL rink to the HBS classroom with relative ease. While... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; hockey; education; family; career paths; personal priorities; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Mining

13 May 2013
News

Alex Popa, MBA 2007

Alex Popa laughs a bit at the suggestion that he is younger than many who establish HBS fellowship funds. “I’ve heard similar comments throughout my life,” says the genial Romanian native, who graduated at the top of his class at Stanford... View Details

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

found that otherwise similar companies showed huge differences in decision-making tactics, according to their geographical location. In the paper "The Organization of Firms across Countries," coauthored with Bloom and Van... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

too early. It turns out that a number of very competitive labor markets have suffered from similar problems. In some recent years, law students who apply to clerk for federal appellate judges were hired almost two years before they would... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2000
News

A Plastic Fantastic Friendship

A. Reynolds Morse (MBA 1939), founder of Ohio-based Injection Molders Supply Company and a longtime friend of artist Salvador Dalí, died last August in Florida. He was, the St. Petersburg Times (August 22, 2000) reported, "a political conservative who developed a... View Details

Keywords: Salvador Dali; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

11 Jul 2013
News

Making Lives Better

Alison Tepper Singer When her daughter was diagnosed with autism, Alison Tepper Singer's life changed both personally and professionally. The 1993 HBS grad had been planning to build on her career as a TV news producer—first at WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, and later at... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

relationship can range from loose to tight with respect to the financial and operational interactions between affiliates and the central organization. A loose affiliation generally refers to a network of organizations committed to exchanging knowledge, pursuing a View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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Tafadzwa Samushonga

opportunities that HBS has provided for her to engage with new markets. “I am particularly excited about how other developing economies are using technology to tackle similar problems to those we are facing back home.” As part of the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Research at HBS | Information Technology

of completion of their organization's training regarding requirements and guidance covering standard data management practices and sponsored data. If no such training is available at their organization, similar training, such as the “... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds

addition to the discouraging share price, one other thing from that day sticks in Petitti’s mind: A classmate noted she had explored a similar business model before concluding it wouldn’t work. “What makes you different?” he recalls her... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 May 2008
News

Small World? Read Nil about It

well-known, newspapers are dying in the age of the Internet. As newspapers cut back on staff, one of the first things to go is the foreign bureau, which is expensive to maintain and whose reporting is deemed not as interesting to readers, nor as profitable, as coverage... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information

08 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior role,” she says. Still, Eberle Walker had never envisioned herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating officers and chief administrative... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Feb 1998
News

New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

affiliates a chance to interact and work together in what Clark called "one of the most dynamic regions in the world." Over the next decade, the hope is to establish similar research offices in other key regions. "We are wholeheartedly... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

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