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- 19 Dec 2019
- News
A Ranch of One’s Own
Lin’s employees) work in a communal space with the look and feel of a classic Old West set, right down to the old-fashioned saloon. “If you put a bunch of creative people from different backgrounds into one space, something magical will... View Details
Keywords: LEGO
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he says, or Singapore’s Clarke Quay.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- September 2016
- Article
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the... View Details
Keywords: Research Questions; Relevance; Rigor; Practice-based Research; Research; Communication; Media; Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1493–1505. (Sparked a Working Knowledge article about research relevance.)
- August 2007
- Article
Tent-Poles, Tribalism, and Boundary Spanning: The Rigor-Relevance Debate in Management Research
By: Ranjay Gulati
Gulati, Ranjay. "Tent-Poles, Tribalism, and Boundary Spanning: The Rigor-Relevance Debate in Management Research." Academy of Management Journal 50, no. 4 (August 2007): 775–782.
- May 1980 (Revised September 1985)
- Case
AT&T Long Lines: Marketing Telemarketing (A)
Shapiro, Benson P. "AT&T Long Lines: Marketing Telemarketing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 580-145, May 1980. (Revised September 1985.)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
Lillian Too (MBA '76), formerly Kim Lim, is the executive chairman of her own publishing and investment company in Malaysia. She is the author of eight best-selling books on the ancient Chinese science of Feng shui (pronounced FUNG SHWAY), including The Complete... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:... View Details
Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. "CEO Personality and Firm Policies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22435, July 2016.
- January 1980
- Case
Technotronics, Inc.
Describes the problems of resolving differences between two departments in a decentralized company. Based on Voltamp Electric Co. by T.C. Raymond. View Details
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Technotronics, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 480-054, January 1980.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment
By: P. W. Bane, S. P. Bradley and D. J. Collins
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring and defining a vision of responsible business leadership
Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar Karthik Ramanna talks about the School's role in promoting ethical thinking and responsible action by business leaders. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Students Take Aim at Foreclosures
Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed the nonprofit’s strategy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
benefits for those communities over the lifetime of a mine and beyond. That means providing education and training to raise local people to a standard where they can access jobs. It also means seeking ways to augment other sources of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
said, absolutely, you know, let's get into this. You know, how much is the grinding mill? And they said it's $150. And I said, well, number one, we're obviously going to do that, but number two, I want to take your story back to where I'm from, where this idea of View Details
- Winter 2014
- Article
Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?
By: Jeff Prince and Shane Greenstein
We examine whether bundling in telecommunications services reduces churn using a series of large, independent cross sections of household decisions. To identify the effect of bundling, we construct a pseudo-panel dataset and utilize a linear, dynamic panel-data model,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Customer Satisfaction; Product Marketing; Telecommunications Industry
Prince, Jeff, and Shane Greenstein. "Does Service Bundling Reduce Churn?" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 23, no. 4 (Winter 2014): 839–875.
- 3 Aug 2007 - 8 Aug 2007
- Conference Presentation
Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule
- 19 May 2017
- News
Dean Nohria on the Importance of Inclusion
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Survey Highlights Attitudes About Campus Sexual Assault
- 25 Nov 2014
- News
Paul Viera: Making A Difference
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Helping foreign countries invest wisely
Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published November 2014) View Details