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  • 19 Mar 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

language abilities, which were neither stellar nor poor. One low-fluency worker painfully summarized his experience: "If you cannot express your ideas because you lack language skills, the collaboration becomes a nightmare. You lose... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

considerably more on strategy and less on operations management. A greater focus on innovation, collaboration and strategy will help guide your company on how and when to pivot. Generate insights about where to pivot In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

imperative that real estate practitioners engage in interdisciplinary dialogues to unlock innovative solutions for this housing shortage,” says Dlodlo. “The Cooper Union studio, a rare example of intentional collaboration with a minority... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • Research Summary

Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
  • December 2019
  • Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Economic Systems; Money; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Design; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Reputation; Business Strategy; Competition; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Virginia; New York (city, NY)
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  • 05 Jul 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

in 2019 that nearly 90 percent of 401 organizations it surveyed employed a chief experience officer, a chief customer officer, or an equivalent. To achieve their goals, CXOs often have to bring together elements of an organization that haven’t View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

  • Research Summary

Current Research

Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

 

Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
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Research Summaries

Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


Social Capital... View Details

  • 17 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

each other that the thought of collaboration is never going to cross your minds. Women will come in willing and able and ready, and you're going to lose,' " she remembers. Brandt, one of 38 women in the Class of 1972, says she was... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
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Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

  • January 2024
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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  • 14 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

  • February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)

By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Ashley V. Whillans
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

  • 04 Nov 2019
  • News

A Home for Startups

Ankit Samdariya (MBA 2013) is CEO of The Hive, a collaborative workspace firm in Chennai, India. In this video, he discusses how the company is serving the rapidly growing trend toward collaborative work... View Details
Keywords: work space