Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (269) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 12 of 269 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

draw conclusions, based on scientific evidence, on what does or does not work to enhance organizational performance." Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance of the U.S. National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In 2017, the company gifted the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace-a global online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

cybersecurity. Revenues declined, criticism grew, and challenges of change remained. Watson businesses were new, unproven, and required change in nearly every aspect of legacy operations and culture. To increase speed and agility, Rometty used methods such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Should Linden Lab continue to offer an open platform or build its own solutions for customers? Should it target adult consumers, teens, enterprise customers, or the education market? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

performance. We measure close ties using the education network between fund managers and managers of the investee firms. We find that having close ties to an investee leads to more timely investments only when the funds are closely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-083 thredUP: Think Secondhand First In the fall of 2016, the management team at thredUP, the largest U.S. online retailer of second hand clothing, is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

Air pollution not only corrupts people’s physical health, but can also contaminate their morality. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53173 August 2017 Journal of Management Education Teaching Versus Living:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

to a variety of services, establish online reputation, and—eventually—find broader application in the physical world, such as for event ticketing. And major media and collectibles franchises will start moving into the NFT space—Pokémon... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-024 Driving Towards a Disruption? (B) This (B) case is an update to HBS No. 612-101, “Driving Towards a Disruption?” It looks at recent changes made at HBS to support View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

managers tend to track members of the top management teams of firms (CEOs, CFOs, Presidents, and Board Chairs) and tend to share educational and location-based commonalities with the specific insiders they choose to follow. Collectively,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

MaterialsLeaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1 Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson HoutHarvard Business School Case 311-032 Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211036-PDF-ENG Airbnb Joseph B. Lassiter III, and Evan W. RichardsonHarvard Business School Case 812-046 Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, the three founders of Airbnb, an online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

urban school system. In this article, the authors, who are members of Harvard University's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), explain why. One reason, they say, is that educators, researchers, and policy makers see the district... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

content, connectivity, and communication and are driven by renewed demand for high-level executive and managerial skills. Unlike other segments of higher education, the executive education market is heavily subsidized by the organizations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web