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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
School Supplement 310-077 After its successful new U.K. venture, the Hospital for Special Surgery wants to do more of the same, without decimating its core New York City facility. The case provides considerable details about the different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
company can operate. At the core of the business environment is the cluster, or the group of interconnected firms, industries, and institutions present in a particular field. Examples of clusters include Silicon Valley, Boston in asset... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market responsiveness. In short, people... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
to have changed departments, made lateral moves, or transferred away from core positions. Surprisingly, they even received, on average, fewer promotions within a given level than did minorities who failed to make it past middle... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
preference for being together, but I increasingly feel like our base core tendency, actually, is to isolate ourselves. It’s funny because Maria is literally on the other side of this wall, and I could have gone to her office to take this... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
the case method? How can we make sure that the quality of teaching remains as high as it has ever been?” I have met with each first-year course head and asked, “How can you strengthen your core course?” Several have taken on that... View Details
- Student-Profile
Omar Olivarez
himself drawn to the intersection of psychology and the emerging workplace technologies at the core of his software and operations work. He soon took a position as a research assistant at his alma mater. “I found it so rewarding and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
From Das’s Desk
Reflective Leader program Today, however, the practice of education is changing, from a short-term learning intervention to one centered on a lifelong process of development. At HBS, our core mission is to keep the School relevant for... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match different agents as well as possible. "Al started... View Details
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
teams must collaborate to ensure they are creating a product that can be marketed and sold. The park divisions, similarly, have discrete and overlapping responsibilities. For example, while Law Enforcement and Interpretive Rangers have unique View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports - Course Catalog
are creative businesses affected by - and how can they benefit from - the rise of online channels? The course ends with an examination of firms that fall outside the core entertainment industries but that seemingly face similar challenges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Importance of Philanthropy
Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends over many years, HBS is fortunate to have an endowment that provides a foundation of support for core priorities. However, contrary to popular belief, the endowment does not cover all our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
the Metropolitan Opera. "There's no other technology out there that can get to the core of music-making the way we do," she says. "When I watch and listen to someone use the product, it gives me a glimpse of how we could transform the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
initial thinking, affordability of health care insurance proved to be the major driver of consumer thinking across all four segments and later became the consistent core of AccessHealth's message strategy," Quelch notes. All of these... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
not saying people can't do it, but if something is going to be scalable to the millions of workers who will be entering the system in the coming years, that idea doesn't work as a core strategy." Participants in the system can view... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
addressing key challenges, beginning with climate change and building a more inclusive economy. How did you select these two issues? To be sure, the world doesn’t lack for great challenges. But climate change and inclusive prosperity both feel urgent right now, and we... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
banking, venture capital, or LBO investing? About 10 percent of our class." And then there are all the civilians who started companies. By 1999, the School, ever ruminative about how it wanted to teach general management, had introduced entrepreneurship as part of the... View Details