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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
learned how to go find value. I learned how to bring people with you as you're turning something around. Today I'm a founder. I've founded several companies. And those are the skills that never leave you. You know? I mean, the greatest way to View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
Arnott put it, "Entrepreneurship is the motor that gets technology to market." According to Kamal Gupta, "Scientific research and technological innovations create new products, but the top line and bottom line come from... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
unionization efforts. Employee magazines, an increasingly popular genre after the war, helped foster a sense of belonging to a family-like organization where a strong connection existed between workers and their managers and executives.... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2020 Address | About
experiencing. Let’s focus instead on one of the positive emotions I hope we are all also feeling. Connect with some of the gratitude you feel today and center your mind and heart on it. When my daughters, who are now in their 20s, were... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
numbers all day?’” Anderson recalls. She switched her focus to social entrepreneurship, working as an associate and then a project manager at New Profit, Inc., a Boston-based nonprofit, venture philanthropy fund. While there, she helped View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those needs. Or go work in the industries... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
in New Orleans. And it creates an opportunity for someone like Bolden, who doesn't have the education, who hasn't been given the economic opportunities, to still be innovative and to let talent be the great leveler. And that's music. So... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
brands to the working conditions of the suppliers who produce their branded products. This has resulted in brands creating supplier codes of conduct, which is the first piece. Then those brands need to actually hold suppliers accountable... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the remotest corners of the earth. He’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in answering this call." In real terms,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
faster in sequential auctions conducted with a standard second price auction mechanism than with a clamped second price auction mechanism. We conclude that while it is important for mechanism designers to think more about creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
there is an audible buzz—the sound of deals being made. Over coffee and fresh bread, someone with an idea and someone with the knowledge, money, or connection to turn that idea into a reality are hatching a deal that might just change the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
ability to learn from "repeated failure" (Shadreck Saili), "a quest for integrity" (Adriano Pianesi), a combination of ego control and "ambition for the institution" (Bruno Coelho), communicating "where you are going" and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
role.” This onboarding process was very successful in getting interns the information they needed and building connections without being overwhelming. In addition, site visits to the pharmacy distribution center and call centers that had... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
volunteered in high school, painting abandoned houses as part of Operation Brush Up, in Flint, Michigan. At the University of Michigan, she launched several service organizations, including the university’s first web-based program that View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken