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  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

doing this summer? I’m working on the payments engineering team at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job is to handle everything that relates to the ordering process: we View Details
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

  Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

South Asia - Global

(Harvard AB (1963) and HBS AMP 91 (1983)) recounted his life and work in conversation with Manish Kejriwal, Managing Partner at Kedaara Capital (HBS MBA 1995). He discussed his memoir ‘Another Sort of Freedom’, which explores his teenage... View Details
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

bought lunch for the team that reduced scrap the most; at the end of the quarter, the winning team got a trophy. “It’s not just, ‘you’re an owner, go work harder,’” explains... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Supercell 2.0: Clash of Plans

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and George Gonzalez
Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Helsinki, Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games: Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Hay Day, Brawl Stars, and Boom Beach. The company’s early philosophy was that it could produce... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Video Game Industry; Finland
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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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  • August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details
Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management
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  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

her belt, the likelihood of the sale being a spec drops to about 40 percent. Advice for the novice seller Apart from investing in the idea to further resolve uncertainty, other ways for unknown writers to gain access to prospective buyers include View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • Program

Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

disclosure Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group... View Details
  • Web

Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship

to focus on founding a new venture, working at a startup, or pursuing a role in venture capital. Details for Students (login required) Details for Hiring Organizations The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to realize their... View Details
  • 12 May 2015
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship in General Management

the marketer is the general manager and is supported by a team of functional specialists, such as advertising, consumer research, R&D, finance, operations. I was surprised how much of my job involved coordinating, interpreting, and... View Details
  • 06 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration created using images from AdobeStock/ Brad Pict and generated by Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 04 Jun 2015
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

New Results from the HBS Alumni Survey: Life and Leadership After HBS

Professor Robin Ely will share survey findings about the lives and careers of alumni, including how they negotiate work and family, how alumni of different genders and racial groups experience their careers and family relationships, and how alumni view barriers to... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Feedback or ideas to share? Email the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives How to Sink a Startup Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

invite all people to escape reality. You Might Also Like: Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'? How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity? Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

  Working PapersGender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want... View Details
  • Web

What is FIELD Global Immersion? - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details