Turn - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. For agents with few outside options, the limit to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

Bussgang, Sam Clemens, and Reza Satchu in turn taught me how to understand the critical elements that lead to the success at each of the stages in the evolution of an early-stage tech venture. Their mentorship allowed me to feel strongly... View Details

22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

companies? What would be the consequences of their choices on the brand and on the Group? Would they always be able to inject the Virgin culture and turn around companies? Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Founders & Investors Discover Rock alumni and students who are turning opportunity into reality. Contact us if you would like to be included here . Entrepreneurs Investors Companies Ajay Agarwal Partner, Bain Capital Ventures MBA 1995... View Details

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My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future - MBA

and work-study opportunities to avoid relying on student loans. So, when I was admitted to HBS, my concern turned at once to narrowing, as much as possible, the gap between the funds at my disposal and the total amount I needed to attend... View Details

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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

Angeles Times Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work Joseph Fuller and Allison Bailey 24 Nov 2020 | HBR IdeaCast Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage Joseph B. Fuller 17 Nov 2020 |... View Details

Portrait Project

Adan Acevedo

tree leaves, the droplets left behind on limes that were ready to be picked, and the slow trickle off the thorns of red roses. Summer evenings were the best time to keep him company while he watered because we would sit outside as the sky View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

their real disposable income severely impacted, discretionary purchases from restaurants may be reduced. Moreover, when employed, consumers have less time for meal preparation and turn to away-from-home solutions; when unemployed, free... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

13 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

initial evidence for a positive feedback loop between prosocial spending and well-being, these data offer one potential path to sustainable happiness: prosocial spending increases happiness, which in turn encourages prosocial spending.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

claim. Our intent is to turn a critical eye toward current ideas about how to eradicate inequality and, in the process, to engender new ones. Even as many activists and academics continue to wrestle with whether and how “master’s tools”... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

listening to us but is just waiting their turn to speak. The best way to overcome that, to counter that, is to prove to someone that I'm listening to you. This can be as easy as just asking follow-up questions, right? Saying like, oh,... View Details

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

The industry's contribution was to turn these underlying trends into brands, create aspirations that drove their growing use, and then employ modern marketing methods to globalize them. I see beauty companies as interpreters of prevailing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

18 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

wheel” In a paper forthcoming in Organization Science, professor Tsedal B. Neeley and coauthors delve into why many managers tend to send the same message, over and over, via multiple media to team members. At first blush, this strategy may sound like nagging or a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

Pinocchio Effect: Linguistic Differences Between Lies, Deception by Omissions, and Truths, which was published in the journal Discourse Processes. Asked why the topic of deception is important to business research, negotiation expert Deepak Malhotra responds: "As... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
News

Again and Again

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Jason Holley Whenever he’s presenting to a large audience, Professor Michael Norton likes to pose this question to the crowd: After you get up in the morning, do you brush your teeth first and then shower, or vice versa?... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

turns out that long before robots replace workers en masse, if ever, workers will be using AI-based tools to do work, as is already seen with radiologists who employ such tools to interpret X-rays and lawyers who View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

before she was eventually rescued on an island some thirty miles away. A Dateline NBC piece, filmed ten days after the accident, turned the unassuming Crotty into a celebrity. She has received and responded to hundreds of letters from... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled "New Perspectives on Corporate... View Details