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- 2022
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Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies
By: Ranjay Gulati
This book offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become possible when firms manage to get purpose right. Few business topics have aroused more skepticism in recent... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Performance Effectiveness; Organizational Culture
Gulati, Ranjay. Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies. New York: Harper Business, 2022.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
By: Marcella Alsan, Amitabh Chandra and Kosali I. Simon
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak. We discuss challenges in measuring health outcomes and health inequality, some of which are specific to COVID-19 and others... View Details
Alsan, Marcella, Amitabh Chandra, and Kosali I. Simon. "The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28958, June 2021.
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
Photography by Jason Minick At the age of 16, Fortunat Mueller-Maerki (MBA 1975) was given his first clock, a Viennese desk model from the late 18th century. It came to him... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration—the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction... View Details
- 05 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
American Journal of Sociology. While artificial intelligence promises to transform the workplace and disrupt the organizational chart, Zhang’s... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
potential amount of money that could be devoted to venture capital." Although little has been written about Doriot to date, he was one of the 20th-century's View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
Types. Field research shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. Creativity depends on a number View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Negotiating the Path of Abraham
By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East
Leary, Kimberlyn, James K. Sebenius, and Joshua Weiss. "Negotiating the Path of Abraham." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-049, December 2009.
- February 2015
- Case
Transforming Verizon 2015: Going Above the Network
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
In 2015, the Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications reflects on his four years leading the company and considers strategic repositioning for the future. Meanwhile, a rising leader within the organization, Marni Walden, leads change with a new, company-wide product... View Details
Keywords: Verizon; Lowell McAdam; Marni Walden; Verizon Wireless; Telecommunications; Wireless Communications; Organizational Change And Transformation; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Structure; Reorganization; Positioning; Transformation; Leadership; Managing Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Communication Technology; Innovation Leadership; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Transforming Verizon 2015: Going Above the Network." Harvard Business School Case 315-068, February 2015.
- 18 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS
On the HBS campus, six residence halls—Chase, Gallatin, Hamilton, McCulloch, Mellon, and Morris—offer a unique and vibrant community of single-occupancy spaces. Since 1927,... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Feeling Machines: Emotion AI at Affectiva
By: Shane Greenstein and John Masko
In 2016, Affectiva—a Boston-based emotion AI software company with a long track record of building emotion-sensing software for market research—had attempted to expand into new verticals by releasing a mobile software development kit (SDK) that downloaders could adapt... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Market Research; Business Model; Finance; Revenue; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Market Entry and Exit; Applications and Software; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; Auto Industry; United States
Greenstein, Shane, and John Masko. "Feeling Machines: Emotion AI at Affectiva." Harvard Business School Case 620-058, October 2019.
- 04 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021
States. It was a year of painful yet important lessons that we will all take with us into 2021. What we have found at HBS, and in working closely with our partner organizations, is that through it all, View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
in San Francisco. ArtLifting’s chief operating officer Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015) told the Times that the company is gearing up for dramatic growth: “We have the funding right... View Details
- April 12, 2022
- Article
Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States
By: Estee Y. Cramer, Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li and et al.
Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general public and decision-makers. Forecasting models... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods; Partners and Partnerships
Cramer, Estee Y., Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li, and et al. "Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States." e2113561119. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 15 (April 12, 2022). (See full author list here.)
- 30 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career
This was the moment that I realized that I can be proud of my own culture, and in fact, it will be of more service to my classmates if I View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
a reversal from twenty years ago,” Weaver noted. “Collectively, churches have shown the banking community just how much economic power they wield” (Miami Herald.com, March 20,... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the VC community to see itself as a real industry.” The venture capital industry began to take shape after World War II on the northeastern... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
delivered, and ignited a renewed urgency to support community organizations. “The past year was a big challenge,” says Steven Phillips (MBA 1983), co-chair of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley