Community Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

event: gaining endorsement of the startup's technology standard, openly developing the startup's technology within the community (but not necessarily gaining endorsement), simply attending physical meetings of the community, and having... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every deliberation, we must consider the View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually preoccupied with how trade could be a form of conquest and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

activity every three to five minutes. Description of silent animated video above: Bar graph transitions into prices associated with sweaters and songs on iTunes Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during,... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

wide geographical scope in this comprehensive text. Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too by Carol Novello (MBA 1991), with Ginny Graves Grand Central Publishing Novello profiles the transformational impact that... View Details

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

"That number is considerably lower than just about anyone I've asked has imagined," said Ely, Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for culture and community at HBS. "And it's... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

pediatric heart hospital facilities in the world." Shetty also directs telemedicine units that connect to remote areas in northeastern India, allowing physicians and technicians to communicate on acute care. Telemedicine is one way... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

community for ALS research news and resources. “Prize4Life has proven very successful in its strategy,” says Kremer, who lives with his family in his native Israel and stays in touch with his Prize4Life teams via Skype and by using... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately identify the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

and launched the fund in early 2003. While the firm performed well during 2003 and 2004 (both in terms of returns and new assets), in 2005 the results began to suffer. Describes the process of designing the firm, the resulting team dynamics, the strains on the staff... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2021
Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir Desai, Ruth Page, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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personalization, and creative development. Students will also gain confidence in assessing marketing investments, communicating impact to finance and investor stakeholders, and managing agencies and in-house... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

find a more scalable model. Viewed through that lens, we hope the community realizes how valuable this is. We can rival the impact of a ministry of education or exceed it by orders of magnitude, with a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2014
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All For One

creating an environment for innovation: first, employees have to be willing to innovate; and second, they have to be able to innovate. That first ingredient, willingness, came about as a result of creating a community with a common sense... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

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