Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

Growing up as a Black male from South Los Angeles, I was raised in a vibrant community surrounded by a diverse group of individuals who gave me guidance and taught me core values –such as curiosity,... View Details

01 Nov 2018
News

The Power of Civility

act behind the scenes and in front of the scenes. So I'm trying to marry the concept of diplomacy and dignity and... View Details

2021
Report

The Economic Impact of the Market-Making Internet Advertising, Content, Commerce, and Innovation

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

This research about the economic value of the Internet is conducted approximately every four years and highlights the importance of the internet ecosystem, which enables job creation and market-making opportunities. This highly valued, extensive piece of economic... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Communication Technology; Social Media; Advertising; Value; Brands and Branding

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03 Jul 2013
What Do You Think?

What Are the Limits of Transparency?

enthusiasm you may have for the word itself. Now the topic has been thrust into our everyday lives with disclosures, or leaks, of alleged US secret View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - Recruiting

seeking to understand the actions needed to achieve their diversity and inclusion recruiting goals and to communicate their commitment to diversity and inclusion in the... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

interview, conducted via e-mail. Q: In general, what relationship did you find between companies you identified as short-term-oriented, their investors, and the behavior of their stocks? Francois Brochet:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

30 Nov 2021
Interview

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing... View Details

Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media

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07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

says Bauerly, “it’s just been a story of abundance. He built a great business over 25 years through all the entrepreneurial zeal that is essential in that first phase.” Granite... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

International Red Cross, UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières, Oxfam, and Amnesty International. Topics include managing growth, performance assessment, mission and strategy development, and most of all, understanding, developing, and View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

A: Jim Heskett: One can only speculate on the sources of low job satisfaction. It could be a product of unmet expectations, possibly due to inadequate attention by firms to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

international financial community has formulated lessons for itself of the crises of the 1990s that, in both... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

04 Apr 2024
News

The Making of a Medical Milestone

On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Nov 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making

Keywords: by Giovanni M. Gavetti & Massimo Warglien

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (HBS MBA '93) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten's Tokyo headquarters and dropped a bomb: all 7,100 workers would have two years to become... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

before. I wasn’t sure. I made a calculated decision to have a baby at business school. Sure, I could have deferred for a year and taken advantage of my consulting firm’s generous maternity leave policy. Yet,... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

broadly, fellowships enrich the entire HBS community by exposing students to people and concepts they might never encounter otherwise. The generosity View Details

Keywords: fellowships

16 Jan 2018
News

Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits

SPNM scholarship program a primary focus of its fundraising activities because the program’s impact in the region is so far-reaching. “Our members have been most motivated to... View Details