Networking - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

Keywords: by Michael Luca; Food & Beverage

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Corporate Governance

The characteristics and structure of boards of directors have important implications for firm performance. Professor Wang has found that firms with well-connected boards whose members have strong network connections provide economic benefits that are not immediately... View Details

January 2024
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Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Business Model; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; Netherlands

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October 2014
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McKinsey & Company, 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2012, McKinsey & Company (McKinsey) was the world's premier management consultancy, providing advice to CEO's and top executives of leading companies around the globe. Many consulting firms were bigger but few could match the reputation McKinsey had built over more... View Details

Keywords: Consulting Firms; McKinsey; Strategy; Consulting Industry; North America

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01 Aug 2012
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Face Fears with Courage

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

up with the right answers, he found those who had more people in their social network from different cultures who disliked each other did about 23 percent worse on the test. This makes sense, says Chua. "Just as a child observing parents... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You? Why Entrepreneurs Must Focus on Building Trust Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People What do you think of this research? Share your insights... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

increased, Kenneth and Kevin saw that the reach of the Anti-Racism Fund had grown well beyond their networks and that there was something there they could harness to propel their efforts forward. Next steps would be to turn this... View Details

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Harvard University is committed to maintaining the integrity and availability of the Harvard network for the vital educational and research purposes for which it was designed and prohibits the use of its... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

10 May 2019
Blog Post

Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

network and made friends. Sections organize lots of small group dinners that are great to attend even with kids, but you can go above and beyond that! I invited my section mates and friends to my home. Since I’m from Italy, it was quite... View Details

23 Mar 2023
News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and inaccessible to engineers' "creativity". Thomas Baudin, MBA 1997, CEO & Founder Region: Europe Globalcare The firm’s mission is to advance international healthcare mobility. It is building a trusted View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

and practices out of the network of those that have been found to be associated with professions. We use these traits and practices both to set forth our own notion of the essence of professionalism and to enable us to compare management... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who 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 View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award for Teaching Excellence. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps” with Umit Gurun and... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

networks of companies and organizations are emerging, new ways of competing and collaborating are becoming more important. Old boundaries are withering. The traditional widget-making company maximizing its own profit in a nationally... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

24 Feb 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

Keywords: by George Serafeim; Accounting

05 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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