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- June 2018
- Teaching Note
The Transformation of Microsoft
By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
addition, it will examine marketing strategies for existing programs and services and evaluate their effectiveness relative to the alumni audience they are targeting. The committee will serve as a resource to the School as the capital... View Details
- March 2000 (Revised October 2004)
- Background Note
Adding Voice to the Web: A Note on Start-ups
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
A study of start-up companies that have leveraged the technology of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony to develop applications that are positioned to have an impact on the offerings of traditional telecommunications organizations. View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library
basic community industries can be recycled as many as three or four times" (p. 32). The diagram is part of a larger proposed business strategy for Native American reservations to realize cash flow through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
and more experimental pieces, Boston Ballet has to sell tickets, which is easier to do for a Saturday showing of Cinderella, for example, than a Wednesday evening performance of contemporary works. To address that challenge—and engage a broader audience—Hodges turned... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Nim Ravid | MBA
Nim Ravid Economics, Secondary in Computer Science Kirkland 2025 Cohort 6 Community is instrumental in transforming a visionary idea into a tangible reality. I am thrilled for the opportunity to join the Tech Fellows View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It's Important to Have a Compelling Story:" Jodi Glickman on Being Great on the Job
And thus, the idea for Great on the Job was born. We're like peanut butter and the jelly—we have perpendicular skill sets. He is creative and insightful and I’m super analytical and linear. We deconstructed and reverse engineered the View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
relocating to Columbus, Ohio, where he had recently moved. Inspired by the difficulty he was having finding workers to renovate his house, he had a business idea that he wanted her to pursue. It was a referral agency for homeowners looking for service providers—similar... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Batten’s life and career: how he grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse, championed racial equality, gave away more than $400 million to charity, mostly to education, and dealt with losing his vocal cords to cancer. The Art... View Details
- 25 Jul 2014
- News
Fostering connections with business leaders in India and South Asia
Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), executive director of the India Research Center (IRC) since 2008, likens the center in Mumbai to an embassy for both HBS and Harvard University. "We bring the best of the region—not just India, but all of South Asia—to Harvard and, in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Inspiring conversations around the world
Sigal Bussel (MBA 2003) creates artwork intended to engage people around the world in a meaningful dialogue. Her large-scale, thought-provoking works have been displayed from Asia to the Middle East and from the United States to Europe. “There is a need for a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Making TV Look Like America
Jackie Burgos (MBA 2014) intends to run a TV network to promote programming diversity, making TV more reflective of the world in which we live. “I think I’ve always been the kid who has big dreams; life otherwise wouldn’t be fun,” says Burgos, who is the first member... View Details
- June 2025
- Teaching Note
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades (B): The Art of Coalition Building
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-132. Curtis Osceola, Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, exercised leadership to mobilize allies, deal with opposition, and forge internal and external multi-sector coalitions to help preserve... View Details
- 3 Dec 2014
- Other Presentation
The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value
This presentation given by Professor Michael Porter covers the role of business in society, the concept of shared value, the difference between CSR and CSV, the three levels of shared value, implications for government and civil society, and examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: Society; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Civil Society or Community; Business and Community Relations; Government and Politics
Porter, Michael E. "The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value." Porter Prize for Excellence in CSV, Seoul, South Korea, December 3, 2014.
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to conventional accounts, Associate Professor Abdelal argues that... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
through emails sent on the event’s messaging platform. They also surveyed attendees about the advice others provided them. “We noticed that teams that were near each other didn’t always influence each other,” says Koning, assistant professor of business administration... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
McDermott, and William M. Snyder, maintains that communities of practice — groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise — provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
great deal of courage and leadership to embrace this model where you enable and encourage users through various challenges and allow the community the degree of autonomy it needs to be healthy. So, in a nutshell: Split your IP. Have a... View Details