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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Promising Starts
Eight Class of 2011 MBAs will spend the coming year working in key management positions with nonprofits and public-sector organizations with support from the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. This year’s fellows are (front row) Alisa Seewald, Year Up; Clive Chang,...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
nongovernmental organizations will continue their pressure to abolish the dual-class citizenship system. What Lies Ahead? “Over the long haul, there’s reason to be optimistic about China’s development,” said Abrami. The WTO agreement holds the View Details
- 02 Aug 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
After an eye-opening experience as a volunteer mentor, former auto executive Susan Schooner (MBA 1983) launched Girls Group, an organization designed to economically and emotionally support middle and high school girls in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area. Founded in 2003,...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was meaningful.” What Schooner saw in these young women was promise and a world that wasn’t affording them the same opportunities she had enjoyed growing up. So that same year, she took her own money and launched Girls Group, an...
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- 16 Feb 2012
- News
A Promising Calorie-Cutting Approach
- 11 Nov 2014
- News
Making Good On Her Promise
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the...
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- December 2000 (Revised January 2001)
- Background Note
Promise of Functional Foods, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock
This case presents a definition of functional foods or nutraceuticals (food or food ingredients that could provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients they contain), a description of some of the major obstacles to their commercialization and...
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Food;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Health;
Product Development;
Production;
Commercialization;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Laure Mougeot Stroock. "Promise of Functional Foods, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 901-013, December 2000. (Revised January 2001.)
- February 2012 (Revised July 2012)
- Background Note
The Promise of Impact Investing
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Sarah Appleby and Laura Moon
This note outlines the segments of a potential $500 billion social investment market; sectors such as housing, microfinance, health and education. The note sketches the roles of the various players and summarizes their investment perspectives.
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Investment
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Sarah Appleby, and Laura Moon. "The Promise of Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Background Note 512-045, February 2012. (Revised July 2012.)
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes As a little kid, Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) doesn’t remember thinking much about the differences between himself and his younger brother, Terry. But as he started to get older, he started to ask questions:...
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- April 2010
- Article
Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise
By: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier
Two alternate visions for shaping and explaining the governance of economic globalization have been in competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Trade;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
European Union;
United States
Abdelal, Rawi, and Sophie Meunier. "Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise." Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349–366.
- Awards
Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar
Selected for the Marketing Science Institute's 2009 Young Scholar Program. The biennial MSI Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and closely related fields to explore research opportunities and encourage future research...
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- 16 Nov 2020
- News
Moderna Announces Promising Vaccine Trial Results
Moderna released promising news on the progress of their coronavirus vaccine this morning, noting that trials showed it to be 94.5% effective. “In this pandemic, what has been awful from a public health standpoint, an economic standpoint,...
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- 2014
- Article
The Promise of Prediction Contests
By: Phillip E. Pfeifer, Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl
This article examines the prediction contest as a vehicle for aggregating the opinions of a crowd of experts. After proposing a general definition distinguishing prediction contests from other mechanisms for harnessing the wisdom of crowds, we focus on...
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Pfeifer, Phillip E., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Kenneth C. Lichtendahl. "The Promise of Prediction Contests." American Statistician 68, no. 4 (2014): 264–270.
- 2015
- Chapter
Clawing Back a Promising Paper
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Regina Conti and Heather Coon
Amabile, Teresa M., Regina Conti, and Heather Coon. "Clawing Back a Promising Paper." Chap. 27 in Ethical Challenges in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences: Case Studies and Commentaries, edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Susan T. Fiske, 83–84. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- January–February 1980
- Article
New Promise of Computer Graphics
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Allan H. Schmidt
Keywords:
Technology
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, and Allan H. Schmidt. "New Promise of Computer Graphics." Harvard Business Review 58, no. 1 (January–February 1980).
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
hiring decisions than humans. In these stories from our recent archives, Harvard Business School researchers outline the promises of big data—and the limitations of trying to harness data from a firehose. The Civic Benefits of Google...
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- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
promise of teams? What do you think? To Read More Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Crown Publishers, 2012. Amy Edmondson, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the...
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by James Heskett
- September 2015
- Teaching Note
Buzzfeed — The Promise of Native Advertising
- spring 2004
- Article
Promise and Peril in Implementing Pay-for-Performance
By: Michael Beer and Mark D. Cannon
Beer, Michael, and Mark D. Cannon. "Promise and Peril in Implementing Pay-for-Performance." Human Resource Management 43, no. 1 (spring 2004): 3–48.