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- 2025
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Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves
We all struggle with difficult conversations, but we're often not very good at easy ones either. Though we do it all the time, conversation is one of the most complex, demanding, and delicate of all human tasks, rife with possibilities for misinterpretation and... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication
Brooks, Alison Wood. Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. Crown, 2025.
- 2025
- Chapter
Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching at Harvard Business School
By: Louis T. Wells
Wells, Louis T. "Tracing the Early History of IB Teaching at Harvard Business School." Chap. 4 in The Historical Evolution of International Business: Growth Trajectories of International Business Thought, by Louis T. Wells, L. Nachum, and A. Yaprak. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming. (Wells, L. "Commentary" on Teresa da Silva Lopes.)
- January–February 2025
- Article
Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?: Learn Fast by Democratizing Testing
By: Iavor Bojinov, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit and Martin Tingley
For years, online experimentation has fueled the innovations of leading tech companies, enabling them to rapidly test and refine new ideas, optimize product features, personalize user experiences, and maintain a competitive edge. The widespread availability and lower... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Product Development; Competitive Advantage
Bojinov, Iavor, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit, and Martin Tingley. "Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation? Learn Fast by Democratizing Testing." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January–February 2025): 96–103.
- January–February 2025
- Article
What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations: They Assume the Size of the Pie Is Fixed—and So Miss Opportunities to Create Value
By: Max H. Bazerman
Most executives leave value on the negotiating table, for two main reasons: First, many executives mistakenly believe that they’re negotiating over a fixed pie and that gains for one side necessarily mean losses for the other. Second, they focus exclusively on how to... View Details
Bazerman, Max H. "What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations: They Assume the Size of the Pie Is Fixed—and So Miss Opportunities to Create Value." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January–February 2025): 71–77.
- January–February 2025
- Article
Why People Resist Embracing AI
The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them. Unfortunately, many people view AI negatively, fearing it will cause job losses, increase the likelihood that their personal... View Details
De Freitas, Julian. "Why People Resist Embracing AI." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January–February 2025): 52–56.
- January 2025 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Note
Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace
By: Antonio Moreno, Pedro Amorim, Margaret Underwood and Gamze Yucaoglu
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 622-062. View Details
- December 26, 2024
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Big Thing to Know About Pain
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Big Thing to Know About Pain." The Atlantic (December 26, 2024).
- December 2024
- Supplement
Norse Atlantic Airways
By: Willy C. Shih
Charles Duncan discusses the jobs that customers hire Norse Atlantic Airways to do, and the challenges associated with its low-cost long-haul business model View Details
Shih, Willy C. "Norse Atlantic Airways." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 625-701, December 2024.
- December 18, 2024
- Article
Is AI the Right Tool to Solve That Problem?
By: Paolo Cervini, Chiara Farronato, Pushmeet Kohli and Marshall W Van Alstyne
While AI has the potential to solve major problems, organizations embarking on such journeys of often encounter obstacles. They include a dearth of high-quality data; too many possible solutions; the lack of a clear, measurable objective; and difficulty in identifying... View Details
Cervini, Paolo, Chiara Farronato, Pushmeet Kohli, and Marshall W Van Alstyne. "Is AI the Right Tool to Solve That Problem?" Harvard Business Review (website) (December 18, 2024).
- December 2024
- Teaching Note
Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-duplicating Customer Data
By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 525-023. View Details
- December 2024
- Supplement
Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s
struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed
Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
- December 2024
- Case
KLog.co – Charting the Course of its Future
By: Juan Alcacer, Jorge Tirado and Thomas Occhipinti
- December 2024
- Case
5G Networks
By: Andy Wu, Levi Stroud and Ruth Page
This case, featuring Ajit Pai, Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, explores the potential of 5G wireless networks. It illustrates how 5G works by examining its infrastructure and technological advancements. The case considers the specific... View Details
Wu, Andy, Levi Stroud, and Ruth Page. "5G Networks." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 724-865, December 2024.
- December 2024
- Supplement
5G Networks (B)
By: Andy Wu, Levi Stroud and Ruth Page
Pre-Abstract: This multimedia case should be assigned to students in advance of class. Instructors should consider the timing of making the B and C video available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: Featuring Ajit Pai, Former Chairman of the... View Details
Wu, Andy, Levi Stroud, and Ruth Page. "5G Networks (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 724-866, December 2024.
- December 2024
- Technical Note
Ethical Analysis: Complicity
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Matthew Souba
This note introduces students to the concept of complicity and outlines key questions to determine whether a party is complicit in the wrong or harm caused by another. The note uses examples from the well-known case of Theranos. View Details
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Matthew Souba. "Ethical Analysis: Complicity." Harvard Business School Technical Note 325-076, December 2024.
- December 2024
- Case
Tencent Games
By: Rebecca Karp, Billy Chan and Nancy Hua Dai
For years, Tencent Games, a division of China’s largest internet company, had taken the lion’s share of revenue in the global gaming market with blockbuster titles such as “League of Legends” and “PUBG: Battlegrounds.” These games defined the game genres that they... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities
By: Harsh Ketkar and Maria Roche
The availability of financial resources significantly shapes firm innovation outcomes, especially for early-stage,
innovation-focused technology firms. However, prior research has provided conflicting findings about this
relationship: On the one hand, resource... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Technology Strategy; Novelty; Unconventionality; Resource Constraints; Early Stage Firms; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurial Finance
Ketkar, Harsh, and Maria Roche. "Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-032, December 2024. (Revised February 2025.)