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The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
For example, the Kenyan government modified banking regulations, which supported the launch and expansion of a revolutionary mobile phone-based money transfer and loan service for low income people. While the right kind of government... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
its hourly wages and offering signing and retention bonuses. The company also started to rethink the jobs themselves. “If you can't find people to recruit because they don’t care for the job, another tactic is to modify the job, so they... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Fast Answer
Bloomberg: hedge funds
type, issuer, etc. Click Modify Criteria to select filters to be removed. To search for funds type FSRC <GO> then follow these steps: Click on the amber links to add your criteria. You will see your selected criteria and the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Book
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
“authenticity.” Rather than modifying an old-fashioned, conformist culture, the deep purpose leaders I studied try to reinvent their organizational cultures more fully as bastions of individuality. They aren’t going to the opposite... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
management began drafting the company's sustainability plan for 2015 and beyond, CEO Andrew Liveris confronted the question of whether to maintain, modify or terminate the BWC program. SOCIAL BUSINESS AT NOVARTIS: AROGYA PARIVAR by... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
After providing information about its business and goals, a company sponsors a tournament of successive rounds where designers submit proposals to capture the winner-take-all award. Following each round, designers can modify their... View Details
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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
modified standalone experience. They will read transcripts of the negotiation and provide coaching about how they would handle certain key decision points. How should I list my certificate on my resume? + – Harvard Business School Online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
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Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Centennial: Lehman Brothers, 1850–1950. New York: Lehman Brothers, 1950. Archibald, Robert. “Mayer Lehman (1830–1897).” Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present , vol. 2. Ed. William J. Hausman. German Historical Institute.... View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
to take people away from what you sold them on, that's hard. A fascinating issue for the students has been, how do you square the need to do that with the need to be flexible and pivot?" Eisenmann was surprised by students' fascination with this issue, and View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Communities (BRIC) program and Flood Mitigation Assistance have $1.2 billion in EJ funding through Justice40.[59] These aim to help communities build resilience for natural disasters, and the White House has modified distribution to... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
revealed how often guests with distinctively Black names faced discrimination. In response, the company conducted an internal study, modified aspects of its booking tool to prevent bias, and vowed to become more inclusive. Airbnb... View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
change as we acquire more knowledge and experience. "The question is, 'what will my role be next?' Part of it is shaped by your deeply embedded life interests," Butler says. "Your identity will be modified by where you... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
he says. "And obviously there should be a method for periodically testing and critiquing that strategy, and modifying it if it's not working." Ebrahim is working on a series of case studies focused on nonprofit and public organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
without risks, they point out. In the lingo of the field, an open source project can easily be "hijacked" when an unscrupulous programmer modifies a module and then effectively imposes a proprietary new platform, whisking away... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
mean that implementing activities that protect the brand or attempting to update or modify the brand often meets with resistance internally. In some cases, highly decentralized organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontièrs [also known as... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
opportunities they often are: catalysts for changing their lives; moments when a person can modify the trajectory he or she is on and redirect it in a more desirable direction," he continued. "Whether it's a new job, a change in a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
entirely coincidentally, these are the de facto percentages used in the forced ranking system for students in required courses at this institution.) Although the system has been modified somewhat in its application, it still triggers... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
not to frame a public offering." To ameliorate some of the criticism, and to salvage its IPO, WeWork recently pivoted. It proposed its IPO valuation of $47 billion be slashed, added a woman to its board of directors, and, this past week, indicated it would View Details