Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his 1962 book Strategy View Details

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

economic significance. China is reluctant to be badgered by Western companies or Western governments into changing its rules and regulations. The Chinese do not yet understand international public relations View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

inter-governmental regulation as powerful enough to offer some hope of containing the excesses of surveillance capitalism. When industrial capitalism was moderated we lived in a world where nation states still had much autonomy confronted... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

face of changing climate, increasing regulation, labor pressures, and customer demands, farms are under existential threat. Robots have the power to completely transform the farm's "Operating System" from... View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

offerings: Design Thinking and Innovation, Power and Influence for Positive Impact, and Sustainable Investing.... View Details

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Resources - Advancing Racial Equity

Resources Agents of Change A Baker Library exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African-American Student Union (AASU) in 1968. As a community of educators, students, scholars, and life-long learners, one of the... View Details

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2 Tips to Beat Imposter Syndrome - 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... View Details

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

for their first fund and bought 12 companies: airports, ports, pipelines, power plants, and a wind farm, to name a few. “We found that by applying some basic business... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

Using information collected during a customer’s first purchase, a new marketing tool that leverages machine learning technology can provide firms with valuable predictions about the customer’s future behavior, says Eva Ascarza, a marketing researcher View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

openly gay students on campus at the time. That was a huge disappointment to me since I had only recently come out in San Francisco. The club played a powerful role in smoothing that transition to life at HBS. It was a way to connect with... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Internet Likely to Decrease Price Competition" (with M. Sarvary, Marketing Science , 1999). 1998 Sunil Gupta : Winner of the 1998 Best Paper Award from the International Journal of Research in Marketing for "Assessing Long-Term Promotional View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Enroll Now Key Concepts Identify any misalignments between the dynamics of your organization and external market conditions Communicate purpose and vision, and inspire your... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Moral Leader Joseph Badaracco Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Power of DEI: Harnessing Talent and Opportunity for Enduring Success Nancy Koehn Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Public Entrepreneurship (also listed... View Details

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

community, and then determining what influence we have to make change.” Reflecting on her decision to join the Joint Degree Program in 2008, Rentas recalls recognizing an opportunity to build skills that... View Details

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

their student loans. Still, taking-on student debt to finance an MBA is a significant commitment, and we recognize that personal circumstances influence how each student approaches that commitment. To better... View Details

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Madison McIlwain

(LCA) professor wrote the original cases on Enron before the company had been convicted of fraud. As he looked back at the work he did, he reflected on the power of combining data with instinct to trust your own intelligence View Details

March 2015
Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White

BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy

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