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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Healthcare Prize What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying “When someone like Michael Porter tells companies that sustainability and related social and environmental issues will affect the future of the... View Details

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

and share value, as well as achieve growth. Driving Digital Strategy explores ways to leverage digital, social, and mobile marketing tools to drive innovation and spur growth. A related program is Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

27 Apr 2015
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Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

someone who is eager and able to work with people of different cultures." Gupta also asked Virts for his thoughts on the future of space tourism, which has made headlines of late. For example, the company Space Adventures, Ltd. plans... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s invisible hand of the View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

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Past Issues - Alumni

December 2020 Nine Ways to Have a Better 2021 HBS faculty and alumni offer nine strategies to put you over the top, whatever the year ahead may hold. Out of the Valley A special Skydeck miniseries explores how frontier markets are... View Details

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Warnock, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Adobe Systems, and Alan Taffel, vice president for marketing and sales at UUNET Technologies, discussed some of the most sweeping implications of today's information technology at a plenary session... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

business by focusing on the small- and mid-sized market across all industries. The question is how to get there. Slang.ai is currently serving clients in three verticals (restaurants and hospitality, ecommerce, and brick-and-mortar retail... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

"hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of diffusion. Our work underscores that financial markets may play a much larger and under-studied role in creating and magnifying bubbles... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

seldom map to realistic approximations of true underlying risks and that coarse rules-of-thumb are used in pretty ad hoc ways. Given the importance of large emerging markets to the future growth of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

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Sparsh Bhargava

they learned that they had been overestimating emissions by thirty to forty percent. As a result, they realized they had room for future expansion within regulatory guidelines." After Cornell, Sparsh assumed various roles at Procter... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (231) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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INK: Big News for Small Business

What would this golden age look like? Imagine if small businesses had access to AI-enabled insights—picture a dashboard informed by a business’s bank accounts, payment systems, taxes, and accounting software. The business owner could see their View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1998
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Deals For Sale

IF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS commerce over the Internet is the wave of the future - and analysts project such transactions will increase a thousandfold by 2001 - then Scott Randall and his company, FairMarket (www.fairmarket.com), are riding... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details