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28 Apr 2015
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an iPref plus a common share? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215037-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-093 Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement? Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

and Competitor Response: Evidence from Medical Device Firms By: Ball, George P., Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Innovation and new product development are the lifeblood of firms in R&D-intensive industries, yet... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2017
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Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton

Inspired by research linking happiness and productivity, Hitachi had invested in developing new “people analytics” technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns.... View Details

Keywords: People Analytics; Japan; Sociometers; Wearables; Interpersonal Communication; Human Resources; Happiness; Technology Industry; Japan

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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17

By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Governance; Policy; Economy

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23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

and friendly employees. Mobil decided to focus its marketing efforts on building long-term relationships with such consumers. It developed loyalty programs, based on a new SpeedpassTM payment mechanism (an employee innovation stimulated... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of the market for both music player hardware and online music sales. But the evolving ability... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

05 Mar 2010
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Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman

May 8, 2020
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Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World

By: Hubert Joly

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has tested leaders, especially as it relates to how they lead their workers. As the crisis goes on, many that the author has spoken with have begun to frame it around three distinct phases: The Shelter-in-Place Phase, the Re-opening... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Re-opening; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Employees; Communication; Human Needs

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22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
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NYC311

By: Constantine E. Kontokosta, Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Gulick

Joe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the mayor’s deputies: “Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?” Founded... View Details

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26 Nov 2019
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Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review

The 2019-2020 African American Student's Union (AASU) family is officially the largest it has ever been in the history of Harvard Business School. The strength of this community has always been of paramount importance to AASU student... View Details

July 2021
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Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

By: Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons

We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting... View Details

Keywords: Campaigns; Candidates; Elections; Experiment; Political Parties; Turnout; Voting Behavior; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Italy

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08 Jun 2010
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partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBank of America:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details

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First Look: April 28

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education

First Look: November 14, 2006

Overview

First Look: October 17, 2006

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World

First Look: May 22

NYC311

Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

First Look: June 8

Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World