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- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
I’ll know how much cash I’ll need on hand, and knowing how to project the success or failure of a business has been really helpful.” Wanting to use aerospace technology to benefit society, Kate Sweeney will soon head to SpaceX, where...
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- January – February 2012
- Article
How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication
By: Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley and Elizabeth M. Gerber
Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient through two or more unique media sequentially. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates...
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Communication;
Media;
Information;
Groups and Teams;
Projects;
Management Style;
Power and Influence;
Motivation and Incentives;
Technology
Leonardi, Paul, Tsedal Neeley, and Elizabeth M. Gerber. "How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power, and Timing in Redundant Communication." Organization Science 23, no. 1 (January–February 2012): 98–117.
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a two-week, capstone project for which students worked directly with clients on a real-world, high-impact issue. We...
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All Industries
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
projects in the wake of this type of information. I also find evidence that firms overreact to failure news from closely related competitor projects. Finally, I investigate project- and firm-level characteristics that drive persistent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
In 2021, after working in big tech for just over four years, I felt an itch to try something new. I was seeing friends around me leave their more established jobs to pursue exciting opportunities as early employees in startups. Many of...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD - A Sneak Peek Into Retail
Every January HBS sends hundreds of first year business school students to an emerging market for 10 days of cultural and business immersion. Dauntingly, in those 10 days students must acclimate themselves to the new market and complete a View Details
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactively reduce the uncertainty for themselves and their ecosystems by preempting the effects of COVID-19 even before contagion arrived in their countries. Faced with the emergence of conflicting safety protocols across the regions where they operated, companies...
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- March 2021 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Seeding and Selling Asana
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie Ma and Amram Migdal
In December 2019, Oliver Jay, Asana’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), was reconsidering his go-to-market (GTM) strategy. Asana was cloud-based work management software that enabled users to break up projects into discrete tasks that could be assigned, scheduled, and...
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Keywords:
SaaS;
Customer Journey;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
Change Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Industry;
United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Susie Ma, and Amram Migdal. "Seeding and Selling Asana." Harvard Business School Case 821-054, March 2021. (Revised August 2022.)
- December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth
By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field...
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Young Companies;
Strategic Revelation;
Strategy And Execution;
Strategy Development;
Strategy And Leadership;
Financing Strategy;
Financing Risk;
Financing;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Organizational Culture;
Financing and Loans;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Acquisition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology Industry;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Mark Rennella. "eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 807-025, December 2006. (Revised October 2016.)
- TeachingInterests
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (MBA)
By: Anita Elberse
This second-year MBA course is primarily designed for students pursuing a career in the entertainment, media and sports sectors -- including film, television, music, publishing, video games, the performing arts, sports, fashion, and advertising -- or who plan to work...
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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Becoming a Consulting Expert
project is given to you, you’re the expert on that piece. Never mind if you’ve never studied that industry or heard of the company or thought about the products at all - someone’s gotta be the go-to person, and that someone is you. In a...
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Consulting
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By: Natalia Rigol
My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance...
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- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
observers. What Lerner and Tirole learned has led them to suggest ways that the commonly espoused motivations of programmers might be different when people work on open source projects as opposed to...
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - 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 Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations
This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.
First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details
- 30 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience
- Summer 2021
- Article
The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward
By: Daniela Scur, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos and Nicholas Bloom
Understanding how differences in management ‘best practices’ affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics, and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born...
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Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior;
Business Economics;
Choice Of Technology;
Management Of Technological Innovation And R&D;
Technological Change: Choices And Consequences;
Management Practices and Processes
Scur, Daniela, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen, Renata Lemos, and Nicholas Bloom. "The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 37, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 231–258.
- 26 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
and Successful Enterprises, Negotiations, and an immersive class that allows me to travel to Los Angeles and work with a media company. I’m also working with one of my favorite professors on an independent...
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- 2008
- Working Paper
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Learning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Improvement;
Groups and Teams;
Familiarity;
India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details