CORe - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the... View Details

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

So even though most companies spent the last decade reinventing their core business processes — such as how they do purchasing or manage inventory and order processing — they did so with the aim of greater efficiency. Most of them have... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

accomplishing the organization’s core mission, and develop a means of showing a gift’s impact. Also, understand that some people may want to get personally involved in your organization as a way of answering this question on their own... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

With over 300 million users, the company has created the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store all for free. At Duolingo, I joined the team responsible for creating and managing the core Duolingo lesson experience.... View Details

Keywords: Technology

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

agricultural sector, which is respectful of the structural and cultural norms that still persist today. At the core of WayCool's strategy lies a deep understanding of the challenges plaguing Indian farmers – from fragmented supply chains... View Details

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

of the program. Ragnhild "Rags" Roberts served as the associate director. Students studied under the case method system, in which they solved problems identified in hundreds of real business situations. One of the core courses of the... View Details

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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

skilled labor and logistics infrastructure, were historically American strengths but are now in decline. The U.S. retains some core strengths in clusters, entrepreneurship, and other areas. What can business leaders do to improve U.S.... View Details

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

status quo, and focus on elaborate plans and execution infrastructures, in an environment more suited to trial and error learning. Ultimately, their core businesses are so large and successful, they have to be protected at all costs... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

Profile

Mike Monagle

“I interned with Amazon.com in China,” says Mike. “I got to see an established American company work in a very entrepreneurial setting.” Entrepreneurship at the core After graduation, Mike spent a number of years with Reed Elsevier where... View Details

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Gerald Chertavian

Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” to heart. “Within adversity are the seeds of resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

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Verification | HBS Online

to your profile, select the plus icon to add your certificate or credential as follows: School: Harvard Business School Online Dates Attended: [the year you participated in the program] Degree: Other; Certificate in [Course Name] or CORe... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

the authors have identified eight core functions of business work, such as quantitative analysis and enterprise control. A reader armed with an individual BCII profile can learn from the text how to assess work opportunities in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

new revenue and expand Lincoln Center's core base beyond New York. (In 2011, Lincoln Center planned to welcome the Royal Shakespeare Company to campus, an expected major draw.) A total redesign of Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

Profile

David A. Frankel

return and also do seed rounds of a million dollars for core investments. Fund One ended up with 150 investments, approximately twenty of which were of the core variety with bigger checks. “We were off the... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot and its operating system, and that core... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

30 Sep 2024
News

The Making of a Streaming Sensation

love the fashion world and the high jinks of high school and all that stuff, but really at its core was this sort of theme of trying to figure yourself out and trying to navigate the world when you're constantly feeling like you don't... View Details

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

striking thing is the level to which new business models become possible once we price carbon. A lot of the most fascinating models that came up through the podcast have a core piece of the model that works, right now, when there's some... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

amenities. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) “Yoga is at the core of our identity and culture,” Yeung continues. “It has kept us grounded in who we are as a company. It influences our brand strategy, the product categories we go after, and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

given the issue new visibility alongside Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, it raised some eyebrows among investment analysts who asked what sustainability has to do with Google's core business of making the world's... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

School Note 808-021 Explores the core issues involved in compensating family employees in a family business. Explains family interests and other factors that shape family employee compensation practices. Distinguishes between achieving... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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