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- 22 Jul 2024
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Viral Marketing’s Early Muse
Illustration by John Weber In 2008, Canadian musician Dave Carroll saw United Airlines employees manhandling his $3,500 Taylor guitar on the tarmac in Chicago. When he arrived at his destination, the guitar was in pieces. Carroll contacted United customer service...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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@Soldiers Field
entrepreneur Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) concerning her qualitative research on the American electorate. In late September, the HBS Association of Boston hosted a fireside chat with General Electric’s Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) and HBS professor...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
and news to social media and video. That stability becomes easier to understand if you take into account that internet use inside most homes is an activity that takes place in little moments of free time...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
and players all over Wall Street: When a crisis like this one first appears, it’s obvious only to a handful of people. And the steps required to snuff it out are onerous, painful, and radically unpopular among the masses, who don’t...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
concert promoters very smartly, and that helped propel her into stardom. They also used the Internet really well, communicating with fans on social media and using YouTube videos and other types of visual...
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- 18 May 2015
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Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s interest in US transportation and infrastructure began well before Boston’s record-setting 2015 snowstorms focused national attention on the downside of deferred maintenance for aging public transit systems. In...
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- 06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
today with digitization and technology going at a very fast pace. Artificial intelligence, internet of things, the cloud, 5G telecommunication technologies, all of these are...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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From Bytes to Bites
restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
When he took some skeptical conservationists to a meeting at agribusiness giant Monsanto’s headquarters not long ago, Richard Crespin (TGMP 4, 1999) says it seemed the only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2010
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Hunting Red Balloons
In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says Koscielecka. “And we had unique access...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
of his session: “Two minutes late starting, and half a dozen seats are empty — some things don't change.” Yoffie launched a case discussion analyzing Microsoft's success, using it as a springboard to...
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Laura Singleton
- 01 Mar 2010
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Students Assist Needy Family
$1,550 for the family in less than 48 hours. “It was a truly rewarding and meaningful experience for both of us,” said Simmons. SmallCanBeBig.org, created by Boathouse Group, a Boston communications firm led by president John Connors (PMD...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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world: dot-coms, dot-com enablers (technology and service providers), and "wannadots" (established companies seeking to incorporate the Internet into their activities). These organizations must find ways to thrive in a digital age that...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very...
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April White
- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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MBA Oath Maintains Momentum
serve “the greater good” with the “utmost integrity” was taken by hundreds of graduating MBA students in a ceremony on Class Day. As of late July, more than 450 newly minted HBS MBAs and nearly 1,000...
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