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- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
can be tracked through clicks, page views, and time on the site, as well as through a host of other metrics. But, says Avery, "there is often still not a direct link to the type of customer behavior we want to measure, such as ticket... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
example, they couldn’t determine the relative development costs of novel drugs relative to me too drugs; they could only note whether a project was pursued. For a real-life example of the value generated by developing a novel drug, take... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career dilemmas: Is this the right... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
(AMS), an international business and IT consulting firm. "The impact the professors were having on my sectionmates and me made a deep impression." Wasserman recalled that one of the most enjoyable aspects of his work life had been helping... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
that.” Another takeaway was that hardware will be the next space for innovation and disruption. “They all had differing views about the meaning of innovation,” adds Anderson. “For those on the large company/institution side, innovation is about delivering new View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
with a focus on gender. A few years ago, the two of them decided to team up on a laboratory study on the value of sponsorship. “We took her applied interest—how companies are actually using sponsorship programs to address [the gender... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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What Black Executives Really Want
EXECUTIVES FEEL SEEN? If I am a Black executive, I want to know that others see me as a person, as a valued contributor, and as someone who is progressing over time. I want to look around and see people with intersecting identities close... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, an event covered by the New... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These structurally disadvantaged... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
the Academy of Management for “Getting Serious About Diversity” (November–December 2020) with David A. Thomas. Robin J. Ely : Runner-up for the 2021 Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award. Robin J. Ely : Winner of the 2021... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE In April, the Honeywell case was taught for the first View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
life and health that one is dealing with. And the prospect of entrusting health care to a developing country had a pedagogical "shock value," too. “A lot of entrusting medical care to different locations is about a psychological... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
time with a diverse group of people with different backgrounds and experiences. By engaging with others, innovators increase the probability that they are going to gain useful insights. Finally, innovators are constantly experimenting.... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
allowed HBS to thrive at a time when many other schools were hunkering down. Racial Equity Plan ANNOUNCED In September 2020, HBS unveiled its action plan for racial equity, with ambitious goals for advancing racial equity within and... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details