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- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
managed to reduce their hospital visits by 40 percent and their hospital bills by 50 percent. Several hospitals, including Boston's Massachusetts General, are now using government funding to finance better... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Profile
David A. Frankel
David Frankel, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Founder Collective David Frankel, co-founder and managing partner of Founder Collective, arrived at Harvard Business School without a clear internal mandate... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
in a wonderful Volunteer Conference, which drew a record gathering of class secretaries and correspondents, fund agents, and reunion program committee members. The conference provided participants with an update on current research and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
the business Winters launched in 2019 with initial funding from classmate Ekaterina Lazaroff-Puck. Like so many startups, Upgrade was born from a pain point. As an MBA, Winters, lacking options in Boston, traveled to New York to have her... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) Investment Management was contemplating an introduction of hedge funds at the firm, but many believed that typical hedge fund View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
seeing and learning from what other people are doing. Lagace: Why is this book relevant to business managers and leaders not in government? Weiss: A couple answers. If we are going to move toward possibility, we have to move together. We... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and officials across the... View Details
- Career Coach
Guy Kamguia
Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked in private equity, driving value creation in portfolio companies, in emerging markets. Guy is... View Details
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
fulfillment of community needs. (Of course, Friedman's formulation leaves the manager with two problems: the sum of consumer desires does not necessarily equal community need, and many—perhaps most—governments to not define or fulfill... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
scholarships, supported by committed donors and foundation grants. EARTH is a private, nonprofit school that offers a four-year undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s degree in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
opinion is that the Administration should be candid and recognize that social security is a TAX used to fund a basic retirement benefit—the pension equivalent of food stamps. Higher income retirees should not receive a social security... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- News
A Winning Formula
Ramos: Hustle, tenacity, drive—and a people-centric worldview. Courtesy Dave Ramos A veteran of Nortel and IBM, Dave Ramos (MBA 1989) is the CEO of the Dashboard Group, a northern Virginia–based management consulting firm he founded in... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
finance a new venture? In this note, I will try to help answer this question by addressing the following topics: 1) Types of funding. The two major types of startup capital are equity funding and debt View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
moderate-income families. Low-risk and low-profile, savings bonds have been around for decades, offering the dual benefit of funding the national debt while acting as a savings vehicle for millions of Americans. In "Reinventing... View Details