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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. This full-time, intensive eight-week remote learning program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a...
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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
OnStar as president and CEO for 14 years. A major subsidiary of General Motors, OnStar provides in-vehicle security, navigation, remote diagnostic, and emergency services to more than 6 million subscribers. Now a senior lecturer at HBS,...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Fifty-three-year-old Vescovo, his long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail, meticulously monitored the operation of the submersible, which he had christened the Limiting Factor. He watched the depth gauge creep up: 7,192 meters, the...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
some remote authorities (the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the European Commission's DG IV) who claim to be patrolling the area, but everyone knows that their guns are not loaded. For cyberspace, it seems, is a lawless realm, a...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
valuation data for those that had experienced a liquidity event. Of the 110 investments, 95 were operating companies and 15 were other social purpose investment vehicles. Fifty-five percent of the 95 companies were still in business and...
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by Manda Salls
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
needs are. Clients need something, whether it’s outplacement or in their operational environment, some talent to work on the logistics department. That’s how we start to build a relationship. Then, I always say, when you deliver, clients...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering small communities along the US...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
vaccines, the end of Covid-19 pandemic may soon be on the horizon. As businesses contemplate the new normal, one key change has been the widespread adoption of remote work. This, combined with an increasing pool of highly skilled talent...
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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
hotels. Set among pristine waters and beaches, backed by stunning volcanic mountain islands, the resorts boast romantic over-the-water bungalows, luxurious amenities, and the highest ratings from guests and travel industry experts. Bailey’s company also View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and have become active politically. Health facilities have also improved. Although this operation will eventually turn a profit for DaimlerChrysler, it could not have happened without the help of the German and Brazilian governments. This...
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by George C. Lodge
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
patterns—then, now, suddenly, you have a network that is operating at the same speed that your mind is processing reality.Fuller: Mo, how do you think this is going to play out in terms of the emergence of specific applications of the...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
in changing lives and the associated feeling of making an effort to solve problems wherever we operated in the world. The feeling of partnering with the Bangladeshi military to help build and support a school for disabled children,...
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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and acquisitions, Canada's fifth largest...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Invitations to recruiting events Beyond the basics: Seek examples of job descriptions (JDs) and critiques of those you’ve written. Most investors were operators once and have a good sense of how to write a good JD. Investors may also have...
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by Julia Austin
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
unpack that. Throughout many of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, the United States was actually becoming more spread out in terms of invention. In other words, if you looked across the country, invention was more evenly distributed across remote...
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FY19 Baker Library Annual Report
research access. Baker ToursWe provided 16 Baker Library tours of the Stamps Reading Room to 200+ HBS Executive Education participants, where they also learned what resources they could access remotely after completing their program. How...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
We made tons of mistakes, but somehow, after 10 years of hardship, we found good product market fits. We built a technology that we call today “Computer Vision.” This is the type of technology that powers our software. So, literally, we can look at the computer screen,...
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