Publications

15 Sep 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

Business and Environment Initiative is a hub for environmentally-focused research and teaching With more than 800 MBA students interested in environmental issues, 40+ affiliated faculty, and over 8,000 alumni contacts, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI)... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

by being thoughtful with who you ask and how you ask them. Your network may be inclined to immediately encourage you and reaffirm your assumptions. However, that is not what you always need; you want to be able to rigorously test your... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

compelling than today's television spots. Don Law, for instance, believes it won't be long before new technologies delivered over Internet Protocol (IP) networks will provide the ability "to have the full integration of rich... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

to network and connect with people of similar backgrounds, and have the opportunity to learn from distinguished professors and guests at our action oriented workshops and speaker series. Students also get to interact with classmates who... View Details

June 2008
Case

Threadless: The Business of Community

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Zahra Kanji

Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs for t-shirts and... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Apparel and Accessories Industry

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

entrepreneurs get VC funding, and of that .0006 percent goes to black women entrepreneurs. This is not because there is a lack of innovative ideas and lucrative ventures from black founders. There are a number of factors for this discrepancy, one being the strength of... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the HBS Online Community's Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent... View Details

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Transferring Data - Research Computing Services

sending large files (above 5-10 GB) securely by using end-to-end encryption. However, SFTP programs require that files be placed somewhere that can be retrieved. HBS does not allow external data providers to reach into our network & place... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

start; landing stretch assignments; and building a network of developmental relationships. In framing each of these four challenges from the point of view of the emerging leader, I hope to underscore my belief that management, especially... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

In the News 18 Feb 2023 New Books Network Geoffrey Jones, "Deeply Responsible Business A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" (Harvard University Press, 2023) In this episode of New Books Network, Professor Geoffrey Jones discusses... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

industry," voted on by female sports and entertainment industry professionals, in 2018. Sunil Gupta : Finalist for the 2018 Paul E. Green Award from the Journal of Marketing Research for "Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand's Social View Details

24 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

Comprised of over 200 students, the HBS Energy & Environment Club promotes the energy, clean tech, and environment-related industries at Harvard Business School. The mission of the club is to develop the next generation of leaders in the energy industry by building... View Details

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Please submit your start-up opportunities here. Local Mentor for Rock Summer Fellows The Rock Summer Fellow program is a unique 10-week fellowship over the summer that provides financial support and a peer network for students working on... View Details

2008
Chapter

Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams

By: A. Edmondson and Kate Roloff

We review research on psychological safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Improvement; Learning; Diversity

February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
Case

PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients

By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis

PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. The company was founded by Jamie and Ben Heywood when their 29-year-old brother was diagnosed with ALS... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Health Disorders; Knowledge Sharing; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry

15 Jun 2021
News

Zone Defense

beginning to change. That same year, the US Department of Defense established the Defense Innovation Unit in Silicon Valley to encourage early-stage companies in the sector. Tseng continued to work on Shield AI during his time at HBS, and the School’s View Details

Keywords: April White; drone technology; military; security; entrepreneurship; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

August 2022
Case

Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action

By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen

Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia