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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
entrepreneurial style of management has benefited both Ayala and an island nation that faces significant social and economic challenges. At least once a year, Jaime Zobel, his brother Fernando (who shares leadership of the Ayala...
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Past Issues - Alumni
economic prominence—and where it goes from here Vive la Madeleine! How vision, perseverance, and many blocks of real Normandy butter created a new model for French manufacturing Complete Table of Contents September 2016 The Taxi Wars of Jakarta How two alumni-founded...
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The Benefits of a Residential Campus - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
office. Wu suspects some companies may even open satellite offices in an effort to shorten workers’ commutes. Wu doesn’t have a long commute himself; he lives in Cambridge, close enough to either walk or ride an electric scooter to HBS....
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by Lane Lambert
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
were accused of sexual harassment and other abusive treatment of employees. Plus the ride-sharing service was “flat-out wrong” to try and poach drivers from its competitor, Lyft, in 2014, Sucher says. The company has made some good-will gestures, such as giving people...
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by Lane Lambert
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
that are selected—and the ones that get implemented,” Lane says. An increasingly on-demand world has raised the stakes for innovation at many companies, whose leaders face pressure to constantly update, upgrade, and introduce products....
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
Fairygodboss Fairygodboss is the largest female career community where highly motivated and authentic women can connect with other career-minded individuals to share real-life experiences and help one another to succeed. The FGB platform...
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
the reduced carbon footprint. The Entrepreneurial Manager Ofo Key concepts: Infrastructure, Bicycles, Transportation, Ride Share Dai Wei and his co-founders grew Beijing-based ofo from a school-based startup...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Alfred Marcela Sapone, Jess Beck, Saurabh Mahajan Business Track Winner Service layer on the sharing economy. Booya Fitness Prita Kumar Business Track Runner-Up On-demand video platform featuring workouts...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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Liz Plooster
of faith! New friends to grow with, so much to learn, plenty of restaurants to try, and a whole new side of the country to explore. Being part of the HBS community is like A camping trip with new friends. Although we may leave exhausted, we will be close for years to...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the neglect of the others. When this happens, even the emphasized drive will in time become frustrated. To maintain a reasonable balance among the drives requires hands-on steering by the leadership of the organization. Like riding a...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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Finalists - New Venture Competition
Winners & Success Stories Finalists 2024 Business Track Aria Reese Donohue (MBA 2024) Aria is a B2B SaaS platform that transforms shared spaces into hyper-personalized environments. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025), Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025)...
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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
upstarts like Uber and Zipcar are making it easier (and less expensive) to find alternatives to car ownership. Self-driving cars, which will one day become part of the rental/cab fleet, will be another impetus to put old Betsy up on the rack once and for all. Need a...
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- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
ventures I was advising as the senior advisor for social entrepreneurship at the Harvard Innovation Labs. They said: “Hey, we’d like to learn more about that solution, and we think our colleagues might too.” So they set up a pitch day for Climate Circle teams to View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
four to one. When another premium brand lowers its wholesale price in an attempt to stimulate sales, Heublein’s president decides to increase the price of Smirnoff and put the additional revenue into advertising. This case taught me that you can increase market View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
a pair share the same ethnic background, attended the same school, or worked for the same employer previously). Moreover, frequent collaborators in syndication are those venture capitalists who display a high level of mutual affinity. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Events - Private Capital Project
Shai Bernstein (Harvard Business School) Riding the SPAC Wave March 17, 2021 “Riding the SPAC Wave” with Chris Ehrlich (CEO of Locust Walk Acquisition Corp. and Senior Managing Director and Head of New Ventures at Locust Walk), Rekha...
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