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Manager’s Job (MDD) (also listed under General Management and Technology & Operations Management) Amy Edmondson Tiona Zuzul Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing the Future of Work Christopher Stanton Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Product Management Sara... View Details

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

mix. Organizational conversation, by the same token, calls upon employees to participate eagerly in the work of generating the content through which a company tells its story, both internally and externally. People in frontline and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

favor of helping customers create and strengthen relationships with each other. These relationships are in exchange for the customers doing various tasks for the company for free. The distinction between digital and social strategies is a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

problems." Nevertheless, there was enthusiasm for disclosure, perhaps using a system of disclosing "pay bands" within which holders of specific jobs are compensated. Pete described a specific example this way. "Back in the 90's View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

interlinked economy. Nothing is perfect but there is no time-out that we sometimes wish we could call." At the same time, Tom Dolembo reminded us, "After many years in the digital race, I discovered it is just electrons and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

provides access to rare books, manuscripts, and other archival materials consisting of more than 100,000 printed works and 2000 archival collections, including important editions, manuscripts, documents, letters, diaries, drawings,... View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

work to do, but a lot of people are doing the work.” While hosted by the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB), the event was presented in partnership with the HBS Club of Chicago, the HBS Club of New York, the HBS Association of Northern... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

that also housed a hamburger stand. It was 100 square feet and featured a single copier, an offset press, film processing, and a small selection of stationery and school supplies. "I essentially had a concept that would work on any... View Details

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

"faster" route, but working with contractors can be a black hole of time and capital. In contrast, technical founders can enhance velocity, an important attribute of successful startups, and accelerate attaining product-market... View Details

Keywords: Technology

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

Council, was just published in the Journal of Political Economy. He recently met with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss his new case and its implications for reinterpreting FDI. Martha Lagace: How does South Africa challenge conventional... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Brian T. Bedol

became MTV. He got his MBA from HBS in 1985 and then plunged into a career in the entertainment industry. Working with people like Bob Pittman, the founder of MTV, Bedol immersed himself in a series of development projects as part of Time... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

media’s impact on the bottom line. You and your colleagues have taken a critical look at the assumption that social media works by attracting followers, which exposes the brand and in turn leads to sales. What’s wrong with that line of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

are not unequivocally a club that one should strive to join," writes Werker in his April 2013 working paper, Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences, published by the International Growth Centre at the London School of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

Author: Andrei Hagiu Publication: Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, edited by Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel. Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: View Details