Writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

the many developers worldwide who write for Microsoft platforms. When these developers find attractive alternatives to Microsoft technologies—as they did when the Internet first emerged—it's not long before the tools division starts to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

opportunities missed. Why I Don't Want to Own General Motors June 1, 2009 - Harvard Business Publishing Rosabeth Moss Kanter comments on the bankruptcy of GM, calling it a "dangerous precedent." The Past and Future of General Motors April 9, 2009 - Huffington... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

experience. What is the source of their commitment to building a HCHP company and how do they describe the transformation journey they are leading? We are analyzing the data from these interviews and plan to write a book tentatively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

22 Mar 2017
HBS Seminar

Gerald C. Kane, Boston College

Portrait Project

Wabantu Hlophe

games. My sanctuary was a realm where I could defy circumstance, write my own narrative, and one day give voice to stories that my countrymen could not. Gaming planted a seed of idealism within me—a belief that even in the face of... View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

write about a personal past experience that fit one of five categories: unethical, ethical, positive, negative, or neutral. The participants mostly wrote about commonplace actions (cheating on an exam or padding an expense report, for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

fields, with careers and lives of their own, running to book talks and writing cases that generations of MBA students read. But despite all of that, they always manage to make time for students like me. It's with their help – both inside... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

techniques could have a significant effect. Specifically, participants who had received training were asked to write a response to an essay written by a person they disagreed with on issues such as policing and minority suspects or sexual... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Class or Section Secretary - Alumni

Volunteer Class or Section Secretary Write Your Class Notes Class Notes are the main way alumni get news of their classmates. Secretaries gather news about their sectionmates each quarter, and compose a column for the HBS Alumni Bulletin... View Details

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1.16 Student Educational Records - MBA

FERPA. Complaints regarding alleged violation of rights of students under FERPA may be submitted in writing within 180 days to the Family Policy Compliance Office, US Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC... View Details

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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 03 Jun 2024 Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description Molly DeCastro Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies Crafting a simple yet effective job description is a fine art. Many organizations miss the... View Details

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Kraft Accelerator

Use the Tools Use the Tools Write your playbook With a strong foundation of strategy, leadership, and investment, you can begin to write a plan that will help you reach your cure. Below are the tools you... View Details

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

fill people’s intrinsic motivational needs as opposed to making it simply contractual.” In the executive education courses DeLong teaches at Harvard, he has conducted a simple exercise—asking participants to write down the initials of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Profile

Mollie Breen

women's-only start-up competition that ran on TLC and Discovery Channel in spring 2017. "I always had business ideas," says Mollie. "I would write them down on the train ride home from work." When she came across Girl... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Luis M. Viceira, Senior... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Working Groups Update | About

Working Groups Update Published February 8, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email With the spring semester underway, I am writing to provide more information about the working groups we announced late last year.... View Details

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms and help challenge existing storylines. Since writing this blog post, Snigdha Sur was... View Details

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