Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Seventeen years after the dawn of social media marketing, this medium continues to be an intriguing puzzle—a place where brands are investing more time and money, but are still struggling to determine what works well View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

08 Oct 2008
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Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

07 May 2012
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The Art of Haggling

openly reveal their own interests from the get-go. The seller learns that the buyer plans to use the cottage only in the summer, and in the course of negotiation agrees to look after the property in the off-season. Here both sides win:... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing, ABC, would seem to be an accurate way for managers to assign costs to the customers and products that use a department's services. But real-world use has shown ABC loses power in... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

Sports teams are not far behind. In fact, almost everyone who is challenged by a friend, coworker, or family member joins in. If ice buckets can help fund research to shed light on a terrible disease, such as ALS, more power to them,... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

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Davida Bynum

created a deeply enriching environment for me. Outside of schoolwork, she encouraged me to participate in in performing arts, mock government, sports, cheerleading, church activities, and engineering camps. I even attended an aviation... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Vital Signs

thorough and consistent assessments but also saves precious time for the practitioner, Gresser says. The idea of deploying algorithms and AI’s processing power to this initial... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Indoor Spaces | About

the Spangler Center is named for the late Charles M. (“Charlie”) Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952), a renowned HBS professor who influenced the lives and careers of legions of MBAs View Details

06 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

Out with the old, in with the new! That's the natural path of innovation. PCs killed typewriters, for instance. Smartphones superseded telephones, pocket calculators, and point-and-shoot cameras. Every once in a while, though, an old... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

Portrait Project

Dallin McKinnon

burden we carry, they’ll shoulder it with us. Every day, there is someone in our circle of influence who needs this kind of gesture. We often don’t realize it because most burdens go unseen. People suffer in silence. I’m learning to see... View Details

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Women - MBA

dedicated to reflecting not only on the progress made for women in business, but also recognizing the continuing need to push for even greater change. Hundreds of women gather for a day of powerful keynote speakers, a wide range of panels... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

who will effectively threaten their apparent dominance, including in the US.” Alternatives to a marketwide breakup were suggested. Sacha offered that government power could be used to build competition by giving “chances to newcomers.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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Events - Business History

(EDT), Panel 1: Knowledge and Resources Chair and discussant, Rawi Abdelal (HBS) Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi) and Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School) Neil... View Details

18 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

ask? And more specifically, what are the sources of influence on the decisions that they make?” At large public companies, boards of directors are usually in charge of how and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

2011. Enjoy, and have a great new year! TOP 10 MOST POPULAR ARTICLES OF 2010 Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

this fall, are another opportunity. On two Saturdays in September and November, we offered faculty-led programming that was experimental and educational. The Sprints explored topics such as time management... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

February 2024
Supplement

Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE Telco Transforming to a Global Techco

By: Emily Truelove, Michelle Zhang and Alpana Thapar

Dena Almansoori, the first female and one of the youngest members of the United Arab Emirates-based e&’s leadership team, joined in 2020 just before e& began a strategic transition from being a regional telecommunications company to becoming a global technology... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications; Employee Mobility; Leading Change; Human Resources; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Change Management; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates

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10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

impact on the company’s identity, its culture, and ultimately, its success. But lots of research shows that people in positions of power are given a lot more leeway to buck social norms than those with less... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

gain at HBS, in general, and in this course, in particular, students will be uniquely positioned to help transform their countries,” he says. “That’s a powerful way to deliver on HBS’s mission to educate... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

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