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27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing food, ushering in whole new ways of... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

compiled by Harris Wittels, author of Humblebrag, The Art of False Modesty, and found more than 1 in 10 were about being too busy or “not having a life.” (A typical example: “Hi, I’m 16 and I’m publishing 3 books and an album this year.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2006
News

HBR in Chinese

In September, HBS Publishing launched a Chinese-language edition of the Harvard Business Review. Approximately 80 percent of the magazine will be translated from English, with the remainder devoted to Taiwan-related material. HBR’s... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business Review; Chinese; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Dec 2016
News

The Future of Books

Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in the industry? Milena Alberti: Like so many media categories, the biggest change for trade book View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business School Press. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Reforming Social Science

By: Max H. Bazerman

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

and its customers. The electronic ink technology produced by the company E Ink is an essential component of electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's NOOK. But it is an input supplier to the manufacturers of such readers, not a true MSP,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Research Summary

Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Competitiveness Recruit Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard... View Details

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

book was published in 2012. When you add in the unprecedented communication requirements of the pandemic and the subsequent transition back to the workplace, conversational leadership becomes a necessity. The book provides a framework for... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Biography," details her joint research about the trend and its implications for brand management. Keinan, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School whose research on consumer behavior has been published... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

fashion. Excerpted from The Business of Platforms by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. Copyright 2019 by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. Published with permission from HarperBusiness and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton—about their most challenging negotiations. Having systematically probed the strategies and tactics of this distinguished group, Professor Jim Sebenius, who chairs the Great Negotiator program and coauthored the recently View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

world with two pieces in particular, both published in Harvard Business Review: "Marketing Myopia" (1960) and "The Globalization of Markets" (1983). With nearly 900,000 reprints sold to date, "Marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Oct 1997
News

Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

students in the early 1920s, the idea for the magazine was quickly taken up by HBS faculty, who charged Arch Shaw, the Chicago publisher of System magazine (which later became Business Week), with producing the publication under the... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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