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01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

across business, finance, tech, entrepreneurship, and policy joined panels spanning an array of topics from energy policy and circular economy to breakthrough innovations and investing. Industry expert Ted Wiley, Co-Founder, President,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either you’re in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Dream Realities - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

it seem available." 22 Photographers explored inventive interpretations of subjects for artistic and commercial ends. These aspirations coincided with those of advertisers who understood the value of high art as a persuasive sales tool... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Kill Groupthink

or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board, for example, the CEO would be expected to have the necessary... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

worth $15,000 each to fou... SECON 2023: Back in person to discuss the power of narratives for social impact Lia Parker-Belfer Marc Alain Boucicault Nora Jendoubi Shivika Bhasin 21 Mar 2023 For its 24th edition, more than 500 students,... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Tarun Abstract—New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

customers? A: The final chapter of my book explores how this can be done. Essentially, I show how some companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped them with View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Sep 2018
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From Das’s Desk

cycle: Early-career alumni are going through a period of discovery while establishing themselves in their industry or field. Mid-career alumni are in the process of investing in and expanding their careers, their professional selves, and... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

success. An unusual feature of the book is the inclusion of a diskette containing the Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII), a self-scoring psychometric tool developed by the authors, who are also psychologists and principals in a... View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

where some industries were centralized, has developed a powerful private sector that "seems well positioned for an entrepreneurial outburst." Vietnam, where all View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

right leadership style by knowing which levers shape organizational capabilities and how to use them Use power and politics to address resistance and maintain control during a transition Understand the link between personal and... View Details

March 2006
Background Note

Influencing Customer Behavior in Service Operations

By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson

Explores ways in which service firms can influence the behavior of their customers. Drawing from research on employee motivation and applying it to customer motivation, the note describes two levels of managerial control: instrumental control, which shapes behavior... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Governance Controls; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Service Industry

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Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer

Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and facilities, and other administrative roles for the combined company. She... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines

fair project in which I used LEGOs to build an intelligently actuated tool for precision brain biopsy. My inspiration came from cutting-edge research conducted at Johns Hopkins University, where surgeons used tele-operated robotic... View Details

08 May 2012
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Screen Saver

between what he learned at HBS and his day-to-day duties at the JBFC. “I went from negotiating a $6.5 billion transaction to a $4.5 million industrial development bond,” says Apkon, who will publish a book on the View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

the company's e-commerce project objectives. Different tools and techniques are available to measure the different aspects of e-commerce performance. For example, online surveys and polls are powerful View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

Pollution and Climate Risks In Mumbai, where Tata Power has implemented strong pollution controls at Trombay, the air remains thick with smog, exacerbated by construction dust, vehicular emissions, and nearby View Details

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

survivors, the future of e-commerce and other info tech industries seemed perilous. BusinessWeek.com recently ranked Amazon #6 in its annual list of most innovative companies; four of the other five are internet or computer businesses. In... View Details