Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Growing from One Thousand to One Million Customers

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown

By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to match suppliers of assets for rent, physical products or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable... View Details

Keywords: Airbnb; Etsy; Uber; Growth Hacking; Two Sided Markets; Digital Platforms; Marketing; Digital Marketing; Growth Management; Service Industry

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18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

feel a sense of belonging and have a prominent role in shaping the organization’s work; increase racial diversity on its board of directors; amplify Black voices and share resources to help everyone engage... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

activities, sentiments, interactions, norms, and personal and professional connections of individuals and groups that had developed over extended periods of time. The existence of the informal organization,... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

with the broad range of globalization studies. Business historians must make the case that entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have driven and shaped... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

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GMP Reinvents the Experience by Going Virtual

The General Management Program (GMP) is about shaping the future of outstanding leaders. During these extraordinary times you're facing extraordinary challenges, and GMP will... View Details

03 May 2022
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12 Books for a Smarter, Less Stressed, More Successful Summer, Recommended

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2017
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Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry

As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

handful of overarching ideas about breakthrough negotiation. The seven principles that follow represent an overview of how breakthrough negotiators operate. Principle 1: Breakthrough Negotiators Shape View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

30 Mar 2023
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Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women’s Student Association (WSA)

early on I joined grassroots efforts to increase female employee representation in the workforce. Looking back, I can see how this experience ultimately informed why I’ve shaped my career around women’s... View Details

19 Aug 2019
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Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

friendships with classmates from all walks of life, and through these relationships I have been inspired by the multitude of ways that my classmates are shaping the world.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

25 Aug 2016
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Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people... View Details

Keywords: Government

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Unpacking the US-China Rivalry - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Unpacking the US-China Rivalry Course Number 1515 Senior Lecturer Andy Zelleke Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Paper or Project Enrollment: Limited to 50 students Course Content and Objectives View Details

01 Jun 1999
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New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

company has been a major force in shaping the deregulated communications landscape. RCN was chosen from among hundreds of nominees in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut... View Details

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Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations

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The Spiritual Lives of Leaders - Course Catalog

Spirituality, faith, and religion play a crucial role in many people’s lives. They undergird convictions about right and wrong, help people to persevere through great hardship, inform people’s self-understanding and meaning-making, and View Details

02 Aug 2007
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How Will Millennials Manage?

Summing Up Are we approaching a "millennial watershed" in management? The next generation of managers, comprising many "millennials," will be more adept at managing in a changing, global, and networked environment.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

direction. He then learned that by coating a thin sheet of plastic with microscopic crystals, he could stretch and align the crystals before the material dried. This synthetic polarizing material could be... View Details

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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