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- 07 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
created, developed, and refined at HBS during the past century. The second was to illustrate the variety of ways in which those ideas have influenced students, the business world, and the academy. And the third was to encourage future...
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Reinvention and "Technology Reemergence"
The prevailing view of industry and technology evolution has emphasized displacement, on the assumption that old technologies and organizational forms will disappear when newer ones arrive. Professor Raffaelli's research challenges this view by illuminating how and... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white, according to new research. Very few...
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- July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States
Deals with the coming of the mechanized textile industry to the United States, and with it, the nation's first factories. Considers the introduction of small spinning mills in Rhode Island, and the appearance of large integrated spinning and weaving mills in...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Business History;
Production;
Industry Growth;
Manufacturing Industry;
Rhode Island;
Massachusetts
McCraw, Thomas K. "Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 792-008, July 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
unique vantage points to evaluate what is happening in the industry today. “First and foremost, what we see is an incredible amount of innovation throughout the energy sector. We see the unit price View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers
A Mission-Critical Priority HBS faculty members create transformational experiences in the classroom and develop innovative ideas to address problems and seize opportunities in business. These activities are at the heart View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
at HBS. We’ve done it before. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the case method, an innovation that radically changed the School and business education. The case method enabled HBS to be close to...
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April White
- February 2021
- Case
Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community
By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operate its...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Making;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Leading Change;
Management;
Marketing;
Product Launch;
Operations;
Supply Chain;
Distribution;
Networks;
Sales;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Digital Platforms;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Technology Industry;
North America
Greenstein, Shane, Karim Lakhani, and Christian Godwin. "Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community." Harvard Business School Case 621-056, February 2021.
- September 2011
- Article
Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning
By: Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack D. Wood and Jennifer L. Petriglieri
This paper examines the process through which management students develop personal foundations (such as self-awareness, self-management, and a grounding life narrative) for the ongoing development and practice of leadership. We conducted an inductive, qualitative study...
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Keywords:
Leadership Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Personal Development and Career;
Curriculum and Courses;
Customization and Personalization;
Learning;
Management Practices and Processes;
Business Education
Petriglieri, Gianpiero, Jack D. Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri. "Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning." Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 3 (September 2011). (
Nominated for Carolyn Dexter Award For the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy presented by Academy of Management. Winner of Best Paper in Graduate Management Education Sponsored by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) presented by Academy of Management
.)- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column,...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
large-scale challenges such as health care, global poverty, and climate change. In addition, cross-registration and joint degree programs are on the rise. The Harvard Innovation Lab, which has engaged nearly 20 percent View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999...
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field
- January 2014
- Technical Note
Learning From Extreme Consumers
By: Jill Avery and Michael Norton
Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average consumers. This focus leads to gaps in our knowledge of consumer behavior and often fails to uncover insights that can drive revolutionary, rather than evolutionary...
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Keywords:
Market Research;
Ethnography;
Design Thinking;
Innovation;
New Product Development;
Research;
Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Innovation and Invention
Avery, Jill, and Michael Norton. "Learning From Extreme Consumers." Harvard Business School Technical Note 314-086, January 2014.
- June 2021
- Article
Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously...
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Keywords:
Cognitive Similarity;
Innovation;
Knowledge Production;
Natural Field Experiment;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Sharing;
Relationships
Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 6 (June 2021).
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
& BS, Bioengineering, University of Illinois "As an aspiring technology leader in healthcare, I'm extremely excited for this program to be an incubator for students to build skills around entrepreneurship and View Details
- Summer 2018
- Book Review
Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Leslie Berlin's book Troublemakers, is an engaging and insightful people-first exploration of the roots of Silicon Valley, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Berlin portrays seven individuals who played important roles at critical junctures in the...
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Sahlman, William A. "Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age." Business History Review 92, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 343–353.