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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
these solutions confront a number of challenges that are distinct from those faced by more mainstream startups. This course has been built from the ground up to dig deeply into these challenges and to provide impactful and actionable... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Systemic Change Analyze key stakeholders' roles—including investors and the government—understand why "systems thinking" is necessary, and develop a personal plan for how you can drive change. Highlights NG Continued Changing the Governance ESG Becomes More View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
requirement that’s expected to go into effect next year. How is this wave of regulation going to affect the market? Kominers: Some regulation is probably good for the industry because in order for crypto to reach mainstream adoption and... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Investing Fund Selection Evaluating Bellwether Coffee Show Hide Details Concepts The Mainstreaming of Impact Investments The Potential for an "Impact Edge" Align Incentives to Create Value Green Bonds and Other Debt Instruments Featured... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
movement built a reputation for Costa Rica as a natural paradise and conservation hub,” Giacomin observes. “At the same time, local actors took advantage of this brand identity to build mainstream tourist facilities that weren’t in line... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
it into their mainstream management practices. Adaptation. This can be an important issue for businesses. Corporations need to decide whether their social enterprise efforts are driven out of the existing corporate structure or if they... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
such highly used software can lead to security issues existing in the code base for more than 20 years, as was the case with PuTTY SSH. From hobby to mainstream Over the past 20 years, FOSS has moved from the domain of hobbyists and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
business practitioners in writing, the best bet may be to write articles for industry trade magazines, mainstream business journals, or op-eds for newspapers, all of which are hurting for good content these days. Researchers who don’t... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
managerial practices. Chandlerian analysis suddenly went from a "fashion" to becoming the mainstream approach to business and economic history. Young scholars back then studied railway entrepreneurs just as today we follow Steve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing Old Systems to Provide New Chances for Young Americans
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up, is working to change education, business, and government to provide new opportunities for America's young people. In this video, he explores the reasons to reconnect young people to View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
ultimate product that they can actually build. They move from that initial starting point to their ultimate objective with remarkable efficiency. These entrepreneurs understand both the ultimate mainstream customer and the immediate... View Details
- 22 Jul 2024
- News
Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service... View Details
Henry R. Kravis
By making LBOs part of the financial mainstream of American business, Kravis reshaped the perception of debt as a motivating factor for corporate performance. View Details
Keywords: Finance
Russell Simmons
Simmons was principally responsible for bringing rap and hip hop music into the cultural mainstream of America. His formation of Def Jam Records in the early eighties marked the beginning of rap as a dominant music form. By the end of the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Karaoke Anyone?
After working in Asia for several years, Marti Speranza (MBA ’03) observed how karaoke was a very mainstream form of entertainment. “I thought it was fascinating it didn’t exist that way in the U.S,” she told the Boston Globe (December... View Details
Edward C. Johnson III
Johnson turned the mutual fund group, founded by his father, into an industry giant - mainstream America’s most familiar mutual fund family. He also pioneered such mutual fund practices as selling direct rather than through brokers,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
John P. Mackey
Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 24 Apr 2014
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Connecting past to present
extensive resources into an easy option for families across the globe. “By leveraging technology, the Internet, and network-effect scale, we’ve sparked mainstream interest in family history by making it accessible to millions of people... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven approach to selecting the best... View Details