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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
forward to our first annual reunion this fall. Nothing will please me more than attending many more Society reunions.” The Society’s reunions will include special programming and social opportunities patterned after the traditional... View Details
- 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 26 Sep 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Resilience in the Face of Risk
The definition of risk agility hearkens the survival and risk-taking instincts of the entrepreneur while establishing an organizational imperative of collective survival and organizational resilience. Amid this uncertainty, remaining passively on the sidelines of the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor.... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
equipment, and tired executives on their way out. Such arm's-length models of corporate philanthropy have not produced fundamental solutions to America's most urgent domestic problems of public education, jobs for the disadvantaged, and neighborhood revitalization. Nor... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
traditional marketing and advertising activities in conjunction with the Cup, as long as they don't impinge on the rights of the sponsors. But over the years, even as FIFA goes to great lengths to keep the Cup free of unauthorized... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
Will K. Kellogg
Kellogg invented corn flakes and created a breakfast cereal empire. Practicing pioneering advertising techniques, he managed to change the American breakfast style. Today, the Kellogg Company carries on the tradition of innovative... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
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John Schupbach
changes to restructure the health-care experience. There's never been a more exciting time in history for being able to improve quality and the health and length of human life." But doing so means reaching beyond traditional... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- Profile
Benjamin Wells
arrive at a way to figure it out." Ben will faces new challenges in his internship with The Parthenon Group, where he will consult on a mix of projects that will include education "and more traditional industries that will... View Details
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Alex Slusky
at New Enterprise Associates, then and now one of the largest VCs in the country.” After three years with NEA, Alex “got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug.” The technology industry, however, had taken a beating. And Alex recognized that the View Details
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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
about a job at the Wildlife Conservation Society. It was such an unexpected synergy of circumstances. I really fell in love with the organization, the people (who are primarily scientists), and the scope of the opportunity. In my current role, which is new for the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Action Plan: Come as You Are
seek insight and perspectives that are very different from my own,” he explains. And finally, Basseches reminds us, art can just make you feel better about the world, decreasing depression, anxiety, and loneliness, according to some studies. “It’s not a silver bullet,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
what flexible development is all about. "In a traditional environment, product development is usually thought of as a recipe of tasks. You go from task A to task N, and eventually the product will get done," says Iansiti. "In an... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
to whom the traditional in-residence MBA might not otherwise be accessible. But it extends also, in the eyes of respondents, to those onsite programs with the foresight to take advantage of the unique capabilities inherent in their online... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
In order to garner the capital necessary to foot the bill for social change, nonprofits need to think less about traditional grants and more in terms of innovation--and so do the organizations that fund them. This was a key message from... View Details
Leading with the Long View
had a couple of friends in the class, so I decided to take it. I didn’t know there was this business history niche at HBS, and it ended up being an awesome class. The cases we discussed were international and covered a longer time horizon than cases in more View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
disposables and extended-wear lenses, and two involved new manufacturing processes. In a controversial but necessary move, he canceled dozens of small R&D initiatives for conventional lenses to free up cash for the breakthrough efforts. While the View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
sponsors, including Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. A traditional highlight of the conference is the presentation of awards to alumni in recognition of outstanding leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner