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- 01 Jun 2022
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Students Ready to Make an Impact
process of fully developing their ventures in agritech, social enterprise, and sustainability. Their journeys illustrate the ways in which HBS delivers the knowledge base that fuels innovation and the support View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
power structures and the fact that our economic system doesn't account for the negative externalities of pollution, injustice, etc. And that's why I think it's even more important to emphasize the connections between the issues that we're... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Robots to the Rescue
and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
opportunities abound. That helps to explain why 372 current students have expressed an interest in the health-care industry. That interest is nurtured by the Health Care Initiative, a multidisciplinary program dedicated to innovative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
innovative business units to attack the problem. Others prescribe the more radical and risky measure of throwing out old success formulas in order to remake the company from scratch. Sull favors a third approach. “Managers can... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose
in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Wyss Gift Sets Harvard Record
enterprise bringing together experimentalists, theoreticians, and clinicians with expertise in engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, robotics, medicine, and surgery. They will work to develop biomimetic materials, microdevices,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Politics Industry, How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, the authors apply Porter’s renowned “Five Forces” business framework to the realm of politics. Gehl, the former CEO of Gehl Foods, and Porter,... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
have to be willing and able to tear down in order to build up. The old and proven and venerable must sometimes give way to the new and innovative and transformational. But we should also note that capitalism is far from perfect. While... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
a buy-American pitch to sell cars anymore (American Public Media’s Marketplace, July 6, 2009). “Despite the hype about Google’s innovation prowess, the company hasn’t proven that it can build sustainable new growth businesses.” — Scott D.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
crisis in the health–care system Originally From: Chicago Hopes: to build a health–care enterprise Hobbies: chess, crossword puzzles, scuba diving Paper Currently Working On: analyzing disruptive innovations... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
appointment with Harvard’s Kennedy School, where she founded the Social Innovation and Change Initiative. Here, they look back at the growing legacy of the SEI and the work still ahead. What are some of the effects from the first 25 years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
role, businesses should take the lead. They explain how business must serve as both innovator and activist, developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels. (See their opinion piece... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details