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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
have developed a perspective on strategies for the near-term and long-term. But first, before anything else, it’s important to stop the bleeding; that is, deal with crises and pain points. Whether the problems involve financial distress... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
high-impact programs that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that will move them closer to that goal. “With the increasing awareness and demand for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
intellectual interests evolved in what many would say are pretty surprising ways, from a focus on governance and control, to design thinking and innovative problem solving, to data science and machine learning. And I know I could not have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Harvard’s initiatives in stem cells, bio-inspired engineering, systems biology, chemical biology, and innovative computing. The colloquium featured a number of case studies about academic labs as well as private-sector firms that are... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Gardner, N. Anand, and Tim Morris Publication:In The International Library of Critical Writings on Business and Management: Management Consultancy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishers, Ltd., forthcoming Abstract How do innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
Associate Professor David Thomas: workforce diversity and community involvement as elements of organizational innovation and competitive advantage. (photograph by Brooks Kraft) HBS Associate Professor David Thomas: workforce diversity and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate
services, non-profits, or a business, so I took advantage of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program. The program offered me the unique opportunity to work in government through the MBTA at a time when they were looking to try something new and View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2023
- News
Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
2008 financial crisis, it became clear that the organization’s revenue would be in decline. In response, NYPL reduced its head count from around 2,400 people to 1,750 over the course of five years, without any layoffs, through attrition... View Details
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
in the new world of fixed-line broadband and mobile convergence, and IoT networks. During her time in the corporate world, she also discovered a passion for entrepreneurship—building diverse ecosystems of innovators that “cultivate... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
paper prices necessitated the development of a comprehensive financial plan to relieve the financial pressures on Stone. Among the alternatives to be considered are straight debt, convertible debt, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
new distribution called the tilted-Gompertz distribution. This model can capture the wide range of skewed diffusions commonly found in practice—diffusions of innovations described as having “extra-Bass” skew. Second, its parameters can be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
in the field by working with local organizations for up to two weeks. The NYC course included four on-campus sessions in the fall that laid the groundwork for the 10-day immersion. It gave students access to numerous innovators in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
company needed to launch a second flavor to expand its market and cross this threshold, but the capital required to scale-up a second product would challenge the team’s financial resources. The cofounders decided that to make money, you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
began to chip away at LEGO’s market share with its construction blocks, including a popular line of warrior play sets. “Their products are based on a building system very similar to ours,” explains Moynihan. “They’ve done a really good job of View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
fate we have to accept, Sambvani explains. Better voice technology and AI-based tools already exist, and some large organizations are deploying them in modern, innovative systems that don’t routinely confound their customers. “But most... View Details