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13 Sep 2019
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An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

financial models for the big banks, I was trying to figure out where I fit in. Optimizing operations through a consulting project seemed right up my alley, but I didn’t want to spend my energy helping corporations exceed their bottom lines or View Details

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Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting

relying on the "soft stuff," and the soft stuff has worked in the favor of a particular kind of individual. The truth is the soft stuff is often a euphemism, in many cases, for bias; for people being able to use their discretion to hire... View Details

16 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman; Computer; Communications; Telecommunications

12 PM – 1:15 PM EST, 11 Dec 2023
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Career Check-Up

You give your automobile regular maintenance check-ups. Why not do the same with your career? Too often, days lead to months and years without reflecting on what is working in your career and what isnt. Using a very simple framework, this program will leave you with an... View Details

06 May 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams

screen or the conference call as a theater, says Harvard Business School Professor Leslie Perlow, building on the foundational work of sociologist Erving Goffman. “You’re on the frontstage, and that’s for all the world to see,” she says.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals

stress-free time off. But his first real experiment in using time off for hypothesis-testing was going to business school. At HBS, he wanted to test whether he should work in international development and live abroad, or View Details

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By: Marlous van Waijenburg

Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The... View Details

January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
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Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An

Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

the U.S.: Is America Ready for the 'Silver Tsunami?'." Harvard Business School Case 725-027, January 2025. More Publications In the News 18 Feb 2025 HBS Working Knowledge The Space Renaissance Is Launching:... View Details

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Before and after attending HBS, I helped grow Working Assets (now Credo, founded by Laura Scher, MBA 1985) into a successful social enterprise that has generated more than $80 million for nonprofits. Whereas View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2021
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How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

company’s well-publicized problems. After all, Google can now provide an Oxford dictionary definition of the Metaverse as “a virtual reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.” It has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

move to one of the big tech clusters like San Francisco,” Kerr says. “Likewise, if you are a biotech entrepreneur, there are enormous advantages to being in the Boston area. But there are also a lot of inventors who work in View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Mar 2012
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Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Mensah recently at Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium. “Men talk to me all the time about wanting to be more effective (with women) in certain settings,” said Mensah, an adjunct faculty member at Baruch... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

70 1970 19 Beginning of biotech industry Fiber-optic wire Pong (first video game) UPC bar code Supercomputer Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing View Details

03 May 2024
Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises. “The more different the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

09 Jan 2024
In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

As a new year begins, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the future of work permeates nearly every workplace-related discussion, from diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and venture capital funding to strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

19 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Bridges: Remembering the “Why”

paper, found a place to live, and gotten to the bottom of my overflowing inbox. Right? But that's the thing about life, I realized over the next three days: it's never the right time. There's always more work to do, another email to... View Details

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

The above title was my answer when I was asked earlier this fall to sum up my experience in Milan in three words, working as an MBA intern within the office of the CEO of the YOOX Net-A-Porter (YNAP) Group. In a world where technology and... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Marketing - Faculty & Research

allows the firm to capture part of the value it has created. Finally, by building an effective customer-centric organization a firm attempts to sustain value over time. Our faculty addresses a broad array of topics in all of these areas. Our View Details

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