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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

today. Renovations to the Reading Room and the continued preservation and acquisition of the Historical Collections were made possible through a 2004 endowment from the de Gaspé Beaubien Foundation, a family philanthropy based in Montreal, Canada. With a goal of... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

of Business Administration at HBS. “I’ve looked at questions like, Why is it that people often end up behaving in ways that are contrary to what they set out to do, despite their good intentions? Why is it that so many people are disengaged at work? What can leaders do... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

hundreds of the most used open source software projects—20 of which are detailed in the report. Call to action Tim Mackey, principal security strategist for SCRC, says commercial organizations can contribute to this project by conducting internal reviews of their open... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation and engagement issues in France, Italy, and Africa. He... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

classroom. I choose to challenge by being fiercely myself and creating spaces for my students to do so as well. I choose to challenge by encouraging students to engage in radical listening, to question the status quo at every step, to ask... View Details

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

January 2024
Case

National Football League and Private 5G

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen

On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details

Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

products are more accessible to users, they are typically still relatively complicated to build. We see this in education; effective and engaging computer-based learning products are not easy to make. Within a few more years, however, two... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

And what a body of scholarship it was! Al did not invent the subdiscipline of business history so much as he established it as a rigorous and thriving enterprise. He was not the flashy George McClellan of the Union Army, meticulously drilling his troops but never... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Career Support - Business & Environment

industry in which environmental challenges are front-and-center, such as energy, agriculture, or real estate. Work in finance, incorporating environment, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Engage in entrepreneurial ventures that... View Details

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

much to me. A decade later at HBS, I am glad to have found a community that is engaging in a dialogue to learn about each other’s cultures and ways of thinking, that is looking to understand Asia not as a monolithic whole but as a unique... View Details

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

at all stores.) But questioning whether Wal-Mart's overall economic impact has been positive or negative reflects a failure to engage properly with the data. More For Everyone First, there is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

remained engaged. “On the surface, YouTube’s business model appears to be the work of genius. But it has posed problems.” According to Google investor John Doerr, she inherited a stretch goal set in 2012 to increase viewer engagement by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, noting that in the case of accounting standards, the knowledge is so esoteric that it only resides in a few individuals, who are most likely embedded in corporations. "If you happen to engage in a political process that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

NOT AS IMPORTANT AS COMPANY CREATION Perhaps the biggest difference between winners and losers, though, was the role that technology entrepreneurs play in creating the new market. “We oftentimes think about entrepreneurs as missionaries because they’re View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

grounded in employee’s different experiences, you can deepen engagement and are also likely to gain insights that contribute to better work culture and performance. If you are leading a diverse team, you might be inclined to minimize... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior" in the Academy of Management Journal (2008). 2008 Ethan S. Bernstein : Selected as one of the inaugural Kauffman Foundation Fellows in Law, Innovation, and... View Details

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What Black Executives Really Want

information that might later be used against him. Safety in the workplace comes when your colleagues feel engaged with you, listening, communicating, understanding, and acknowledging you. Another aspect of safety came from seeing others... View Details

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

classmates essentially engaged in medical tourism—they would simply bundle up the care they needed, make a trip to their country of origin, and take care of it. India was certainly one of those countries I was aware of due to my own... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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