Shaping the Waves - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

offers HBS alumni and Harvard-affiliated postdocs the opportunity to work closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping... View Details

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

influence the performance of organizational units. Additionally, we want to better understand the finding that junior executives, women, and members of the salesforce were... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

resources. We found martial arts to be the best avenue because of both the lessons learned and the fact that it is available to individuals of all View Details

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Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines 01 SEP 2021 Increased reliance on technology and changing demographics have shaped the way that companies hire. Hiring processes are designed to find “perfect”... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

the sunk cost effect. Patients would be more likely to say, "I'm paying for it, I shouldn't let it go to waste." Q: Some purchases reflect the capricious nature of people. Is it ever better to get... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

in-person learning experiences in India, China, Africa, and other places. And now, the success of our virtual programs has shown us we have another way to make our Executive Education offerings more accessible. As we View Details

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

employee and customer data. And new laws may be on the horizon, shaping how organizations respond. “How you put this into practice,” Polzer says, “matters a lot.” You Might Also Like: When Bias Creeps into... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

November 2023
Case

Apple Inc. in 2023

By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen

Under CEO Tim Cook, Apple became the first trillion dollar market cap company, the first two trillion dollar company, and the first three trillion dollar company. Since the COVID pandemic, Apple gained over 20% of the world smartphone market and 50% of the U.S. market,... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Product Positioning; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Technology Industry

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16 May 2017
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Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

the fall of 2016, and then incubated it this past spring through the Harvard Innovation Lab and Rock Accelerator programs. We're looking forward to supporting the next View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

11 Jan 2013
News

Can Acting in Love Help You Stay in Love?

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

example. The Chinese government/industrial complex (it’s hard to sort it out) is buying companies and investing in projects around the world. In the meantime, a populist and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them... View Details

April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
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Analyzing Complex Negotiations

Develops a framework linking structural diagnosis and strategy design in complicated (complex and ambiguous) negotiations. To develop good strategies, negotiators must rigorously diagnose the structure of their negotiating situations. Equivalently, strategy follows... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation Process; Complexity

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10 Sep 2020
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Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

remote organization. Alife Health was created and critically shaped under the direction of mentors across the Harvard community. Their support has helped propel View Details

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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About

civil rights. Searching for the Word is based on an earlier 1989 maquette Edwards created for New York's Governor’s Arts Awards and recalls his other public sculptures from the same period, such as Southern... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

mentoring young scholars, hiring and promoting junior faculty, influencing HBS’s academic and strategic choices, and shaping and fostering our culture. To diversify our tenured ranks, we commit to investing deeply in View Details

01 Jun 2016
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When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Original Article A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “Culture Is Not the Culprit,” by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague noted that “When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

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