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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
played a central role: many firms proactively shared new safety protocols, gave feedback to each other, and worked hard to make their industry safer. These interactions involved not only suppliers and clients, but sometimes even... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
own initiatives, such as scholarship or internship competitions, coat drives, or clean-up days. Given the magnitude of need during this crisis, there are many ways an organization can give back and involve employees. By doing so, you will... View Details
- Research Summary
Social Innovation
My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
involved in we won't let fail. Our personalities won't let that fail. That's a poor personality trait in the venture capital community. There are very different skill sets that you bring." Rowe agreed. "We've got so much skin in... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
executing it." In the HBS case study More Citizens Connect, Weiss details some of the learning challenges involved with Citizens Connect, the 311 app produced for Boston. After the successful rollout in that city, project creators... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
businesses diluted the concept of sustainability that created the cluster in the first place. Considering the historical perspective “The historical perspective is important, because you rarely have a linear story,” Giacomin continues, citing the View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
Focus. Nonprofits start with a sharp focus on a problem—a focus that over time broadens as related issues are addressed. (Sometimes a nonprofit's cause is broadened to appeal to a larger donor base.) By contrast, the focus of businesses View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
weren’t the only things producing engagement. Content such as hate speech and unsupported conspiracy theories were among the most popular viewer “draws” as well. A big step, for example, involved barring Alex Jones’ Infowars site and its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
2013, Nisa became executive director of Godrej Consumer Products, where she's been involved in strategy since 2008. In India, Godrej products are ubiquitous. They reach roughly 500 million consumers—a gargantuan market. "But it's still... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
“professional people person,” his work involves leadership development; talent management; diversity, inclusion, and equity; and more in creating sustainable competitive advantage through human capital. “The relevance of human resources... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
popular then, the globalization of markets (rather than production), because customers everywhere were supposed to increasingly want the same products and services. As a result, Goizueta embarked on a strategy that involved focusing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Harvard's Great Negotiators Professor James Sebenius (PHDBE 1980) + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides Since 2001, the Program on Negotiation—an interuniversity consortium involving Harvard, MIT, and Tufts—has annually bestowed the... View Details
- Research Summary
The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership
My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
startup How do you do it? Trial and error, constantly! I really want to be an involved mother, because 1) my husband was commuting to Wharton weekly last year, and 2) my mother was very involved in my... View Details
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Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories
By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
them via social media, 33 percent of surveyed consumers claimed that they were already punishing brands that were not responding well to the crisis by convincing others through social pressure to stop using them. However, marketers should take heart that despite a... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Program Formats Unpacked
during the middle of the program, to allow you to continue learning while you apply new concepts and skills in your workplace. Live, Virtual Learning. Learning that takes place remotely, centered on live (synchronous) interaction with faculty and peers. Live virtual... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
corporation." The Cologne, Germany, native says she was drawn to the HBS program for its combination of rigorous training and applied research. "My field of interest is the intersection of behavioral economics and the theory of the firm, incentives, and corporate... View Details