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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
removing the middlemen and creating jobs at the same time. Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition partners with governments, funders, and private companies to shape policy and implement new ventures. For example, we founded Nourishing Africa, a funding, knowledge,...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of...
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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
PBS Hour dug deep into the scene's underworld and found that all roads lead to the Mutiny, this glitzy hotel in Coconut Grove that was a hub for celebrities and the epicenter of a global drug trade. Farzad spoke with the Bulletin's...
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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
tension surrounding the case is the choice to move from the hub of commerce in central London to a relatively obscure site whose owners (Olympia & York) have a history of financial bankruptcy. What business elements (clients,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
accelerated flow of creative talent into the United States, primarily New York, reinforcing that city’s status as a hub of talent, fashion, and retailing to match Paris. Helena Rubinstein took advantage of the American citizenship of her...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
that is they're very specialized. Rather than build a 1,000-bed hospital, they have hub-and-spoke systems. Hub is for trauma, and spoke are specialized hospitals that deal with specialized needs. They have a fundamentally different...
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- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
whose value proposition is based on heritage—in this case “achievements for the benefit of mankind” (derived directly from Alfred Nobel’s will). It is also defined as a “networked brand,” one where four independent collaborating organisations around the (Nobel) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
begin, just across Western Avenue from our campus. As we think about Allston as a growing hub for innovation and the expanding opportunities for partnership across many disciplines with the University, I’m also mindful that whenever we...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
to realize its potential as a fintech hub is a blueprint—offering concrete lessons about how cities can build their own entrepreneurial ecosystem from scratch. On paper, New York City should have dominated fintech from day one. It has a...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
associate, Andrew Witkin. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/barbara-krakow-gallery/an/514033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-035 Chegg, Inc.: Building the Student Hub No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
still will maintain office hubs when employees want to get together, either for fun or for collaboration. We have a program where you can sign up for speed-networking sessions—it sort of simulates watercooler talk—where you actually get...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Once the hub of American manufacturing, Detroit is in a long state of economic decline. The rubber finally hit the road last week, when the city filed for bankruptcy protection. The challenges ahead for those that call the Motor City home...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
character that comes through, even in a fully remote organization?Silas: Yeah, I think, of course, I think it’s hard to say you fully excuse yourself from, like, regional hubs create community, and there’s certain ceremony or traditions...
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- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
platforms to fight off rivals and grow profits? Their ability to manage five aspects of the networks they’re embedded in: network effects, in which users attract more users clustering, or fragmentation into many local markets the risk of disintermediation, wherein...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
build a new workforce vision where less than 1 percent of our people will be office based. A big chunk in the middle might be near some of our local office hubs and campuses. But anyone, anywhere, can decide to work flexibly provided that...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
office space: Just reducing their overall footprint and looking at creating more of these hubs for more remote workers to come together. I think 75 percent of executives in the U.S. have said that they expect to decrease the size of their...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
in their wellness centers. Ann-Somers Hogg: People might say, "Three pilots? Not really a big deal." They announced last week that they are going to open over 50 of these health hubs by the end of the year. Again, "Over 50 across the US....
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