Transformations - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

manager," Hill says. "What I've come to understand is that many of them never really made the psychological transformation from being an individual contributor to being a manager, and it really resonates with them when they read... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Ted Obi

joy by simply manipulating their words is no small feat. The ability to transform moods, minds, and hearts is an aspirational goal of mine. What is your favorite childhood memory? My father has 8 siblings, and my mother has 11. Growing... View Details

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

called “The Transformation of Self Employment,” details a stark shift over the past 50 years in the composition and earnings of the independent workforce, says William R. Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Brandon Graves

fashion from an early age. I was her first “intern” and was fascinated to see how CADs on line sheets transformed into garments hanging on the racks of contemporary sales floors in NYC department stores. What is the best thing about your... View Details

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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online

Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small local business, we have a solution for your learning and development needs. Learn More Our... View Details

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

brand or product Website (61 percent); paid bills (56 percent); watched a video clip (51 percent); used a price comparison site (50 percent); listened to an audio clip (44 percent ). “Social networks and the easy connections they facilitate are View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... Dec 2014 (Revised Jan 2016) HBS Case Collection Vanderbilt: Transforming a... View Details

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

scholars who were researching leadership even if they didn't necessarily self-identify as doing work on leadership. We decided to assess the nature of what we knew and also wanted to see to what extent phenomena were just labeled differently across the disciplines: for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had ... Transforming Talent at Teach For Taiwan By: Juan Alcácer and Chi Kuan January 2025 | Faculty Research The Teach For Taiwan (TFT) case follows founder Anting Liu as she... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

27 Dec 2014
Working Paper Summaries

How Should We Pay for Health Care?

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter & Robert S. Kaplan; Health

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

mask on first, before attempting to assist others” is a potent metaphor. In the blink of an eye, self-care for leaders of organizations has transformed from a feel-good nostrum to a strategic first priority. Companies cannot afford to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed... View Details

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The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services

By: James I. Cash

James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details

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Working Paper

Generative AI and the Nature of Work

By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details

Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

investment banking houses considered film studios a risky venture, by the late 1920s, movie attendance had skyrocketed to the millions, transforming the motion picture business into a major industry. As the nation recovered from the Great... View Details

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Financing New Business Formation

By: Paul A. Gompers

New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details

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