Communication Games - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Applying to the JD/MBA Program

during Admitted Students Weekend, I left committing to HLS and deciding to apply for HBS. Bhargav: I decided to apply to JD/MBA programs in the fall 2014 - a little late in the game considering the Round 1 MBA deadline had already passed.... View Details

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

much more flexible schedule than any job I have ever had. I have found a family here within my section and a peer community through clubs like Crimson Parents and the MoMBAs. I am excited for you to meet these inspiring MoMBA women... View Details

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

board game Monopoly. This wasn't a blockbuster like the new shaving systems for women, but it showed that everyone has a role to play in a culture of innovation. To go from idea to successful innovation requires a great deal of support... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The “subourbon” View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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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01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

Carolyn Brody (MBA 1983) photo by HollenderX2 BookHampton has been a mainstay of the Long Island, New York, community of East Hampton for more than 40 years. Carolyn Brody (MBA 1983) fondly remembers the cozy, cluttered bookshop from many... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

Wasserman Taking the Game to a New Level: Zeynep Ton Finding Reason in the Irrational: Ulrike Malmendier Star Search: Boris Groysberg On the Case: First-Year Professors Develop a Taste for Teaching The Big Aha When Noam Wasserman enrolled... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

from the examples set by these world-class athletes, who are never satisfied, even at the top of their games and seemingly at the peak of their performance. Like Phelps and Nowitzki, two examples of organizations that excel at continuous... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

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Harvard Business School

Wilkins began his career as a finance and management consultant before becoming president of Syndicated Communications in 1977. Wilkins served in that capacity through 1989, then took posts as managing general partner of Syncom Capital... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

such topics as custom product or service programs for large customers, and coordinated communication messages for all dealers and end users can be specified. A major underlying point of contention will be the freedom for people in the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

interesting to note that he didn't go to the academy to get his ideas accepted; his approach was to convince important people in the practical world of marketing. Then the academic community would pay attention." "His approach... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

our time period. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Anna_tom.pdf 2006 pub How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response By: Toffel, Michael W Abstract—One of the largest gaming companies in the world... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

01 Jun 1997
News

Taylor R. M. Keen

tell you, means "those who move against the current," and for Keen, who is always stretching the conventional thinking in whatever community he travels, the name couldn't be more fitting. Spending most of his childhood on his parents'... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

24 Apr 2014
News

A champion for First Nations

Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Favel led the development of two national firsts for Canada: the First Nations Bank of Canada and the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. In addition to serving as chancellor of the university,... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

Paying It Forward

changing the game for retailers as it turns millions of dollars in losses back to profits for clients on four continents. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India,... View Details

11 Sep 2009
News

I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…

questions were generated by that odd ritual, the recruiting event. Her visit was sponsored by MBA Career Services. “You really have to be on your game in a recessionary economy,” Smith cautioned a gathering of about fifty students. “Make... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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