Communication Barriers - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2015
News

Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome... View Details

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

sponsor of the National Math and Science Initiative, helped to scale two projects: one focusing on improved training for science, technology, and math teachers, the other on improving advanced placement test results in the same areas. Reinventing the local education... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

desirable, several panelists ventured. "In our lifetime we will not see a single device that will represent all devices for everything we do," said Rich Miner, vice president of Advanced Service Delivery for London-based telecom service provider Orange... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

be shared with your managerial team. Open Lines of Communication First and foremost, the career development conversation should not be reserved for the annual review. Instead, it should happen at regular intervals and involve the right... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

be shared with your managerial team. Open Lines of Communication First and foremost, the career development conversation should not be reserved for the annual review. Instead, it should happen at regular intervals and involve the right... View Details

11 Nov 2021
Blog Post

ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high View Details

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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025) - 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... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

partner, Accomplice At Ovia Health, we made the shift to remote work before the pandemic. We invested in communication software and hardware, company-wide remote training, remote-friendly company policies (i.e., video, phone, email,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these activities involve value creation. In return, producers extract... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

for years, extending back to Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” While many members of the management community generally accept the notion of free markets and trade, those unable to compete with imports are sometimes quite willing to request... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition, language and cultural barriers... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

get. Our intelligence community has become too risk averse, and we've erected legal barriers that prevent us from dealing with the very kind of unsavory individuals who have access to the sort of information... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS - 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... View Details

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Enterprise Track: Trans Health HQ Trans Health HQ is a tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. Team: Ivan Hsiao, MPH 2024. Play Video duration:... View Details

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some aspect of their own... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have... View Details