Publications

2019
Working Paper

The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle

Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details

Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity

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Article

Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers

By: Stephen Michael Impink, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

This paper uses novel, firm-level communication measures derived from communications metadata several months before and after a CEO transition for 102 firms to study whether and how this organizational event is reflected in employees’ communication flows. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Information; Communication; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Alignment

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LGBTQ+ Community - MBA

LGBTQ+ Community LGBTQ+ Community Student Perspective Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen, MBA 2019 Student Perspective Drew Keller, MBA 2022 Student Perspective Christina Byrd, MBA 2020 Student Perspective Emily... View Details

11 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Military Community at HBS

In this Facebook Live session, HBS Professor George Riedel chats with current students about their path to HBS, tips during the application process, the military community, and resources available to students (and their families) at HBS and post-graduation. View Video View Details

March 2023
Module Note

Communication as a Trusted Advisor

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

A module note for the Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (MCAS) course, "Communication as a Trusted Advisor" provides best practices for communicating as an advisor across multiple contexts. View Details

Keywords: Communication

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Research Community - Doctoral

Research Community Innovative Research, Lasting Relationships Harvard Business School invests more than $140 million in research annually—more than any other school. These funds give researchers at the School the freedom, flexibility, and... View Details

Video

HBS Online Community Challenge 2020

October 1986
Supplement

American Communications (B)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Communications Industry; United States

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Community Values | About

Community Values At Harvard Business School we believe that leadership and values are inseparable. The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our community values of mutual respect, honesty... View Details

02 Jan 2020
News

Empowering Rural Communities

nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

October 2001
Teaching Note

First Community Bank (B): Community Banking Group TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-301-086). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

HBS and community leaders. Fred Clark: The Class of 1973 lived through and learned from the civil rights movement and the promise of an open, fair, and vibrant society as articulated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. After seeing some of the... View Details

2011
Working Paper

Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani

The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation

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2002
Chapter

Digital Marketing Communication

By: J. A. Deighton and Patrick Barwise

Keywords: Marketing Communications; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web

April 2009 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Lawson: Becoming the Community Store of 9,000 Japanese Communities

By: Linda A. Hill, Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Masako Egawa, Emily Stecker and Mayuka Yamazaki

Keywords: Retail Industry; Japan

Educators

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Community Values - MBA

Community Values Community Values At Harvard Business School we believe that leadership and values are inseparable. The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our View Details

2011
Book

Communities and Organizations

By: Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood

February 2001 (Revised April 2002)
Case

Dialpad Communications (B)

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Industry; California

Educators