Turn Around Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

“In times of crisis, when tensions are running high and discrimination is spiking in the world around us, you're going to be more susceptible to it if you're a platform that has decided to have a design that enables it,” says Luca, who... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

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Diversity and Equity - Alumni

When City Fresh Foods, which serves meals to many in Boston’s under-resourced communities, needed go-to-market strategies for a new product line, it turned to MBA students for advice. Researching Women's Advancement Associate Professor... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but production innovation, manufacturing innovation, and the... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

every interaction, shut down creativity, and undermine productivity. Take the case of Jeff, a team leader at a Fortune 100 company who was working on a large, long-term, high-pressure project. Each Tuesday, Jeff and his peers had a project View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

overlook our most powerful tool for effecting change: our own thoughts. Through a variety of exercises called Think Keys, Zaltman guides the reader through the mind’s most important unconscious and conscious dynamics. Zaltman has used these techniques with executives... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

also theirs. To Rawi Abdelal, an HBS professor of international management who serves as faculty co-chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, Dlodlo’s community-focused approach to redevelopment represents a necessary... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

trends, and economic growth rates. But in business, it is also influenced strongly by the cost of retirees, which in turn is determined in large part by the outcomes of negotiations between management and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with the help of a grant from the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

was another issue to be addressed. Up to now, Facebook had little control over the information gathered by app designers, which they could in turn sell to third-party organizations largely unknown to the company. Facebook had, indeed,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

when the soap wasn’t foamy,” Hussam says. And because all people in the experiment ate meals with their hands, they were turned off by heavily perfumed soap, which interfered with the taste of their food. So the experiment avoided... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

research and development process, manufacturing and clinical research strategy as well as offline retail. Hilary has a finance, consumer products and retail background, notably as brand manager of FIJI Water. Most recently, Hilary led... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

2030 deadline to halve emissions. It’s important to note that the problem continues to compound until we get to net-zero or, better yet, net-negative emissions which we don’t expect to occur until around 2050.” These days, Hilton is... View Details

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

< Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer Venture in View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

next five years. “Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days.” “Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days.” TuSimple’s solution fuses camera, radar, lidar, and other sensor signals to enable autonomous... View Details

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24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools,... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

June 2021, following 15 years of service. Wallace brought innovation to the stewardship of KLS as an information management hub for academics and business leaders on campus and around the world. She was... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

between focus and a broader vision? What are the antidotes to too much focus? What do you think? Original Article Focus is good, right? For years we have been admonished as managers to maintain focus: design strategies centered View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

start of the course. These teams will be called upon throughout the course to participate in more personal discussions around specific topics. Team assignments will not be graded, but they are expected to be completed. Related Programs 7... View Details

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

Launch Lab 1 – and what I’m carrying with me into my product management career. 1. Start with the customer. Why do you design products? Theoretically, you don’t do it just for the sake of building something. The goal of any product team... View Details

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