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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
Companies spend many hundreds of billions of dollars on R&D each year, but the microwave oven was conceived from a melted candy bar, saccharin from an accidental chemical spill, and the Daguerre photo process via a shattered... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
– and it's okay if they're complex or thorny." Give yourself permission to not know exactly what you want or where you're going. Instead of a plan, coaching participants are better served by bringing an... View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
will happen when she puts her money in a product, she is capable of making an informed choice. If she doesn't understand a product, she will not put money in." And that's what LXME strives to do: inform women of their options View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- November 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
SBC Foundation, The
By: Diana Barrett, Sarah Aaron and Cassandra Hanley
Examines the role of the corporation as it makes philanthropic donations. Questions raised include the connection between corporate strategy and giving, the degree to which grant making should be decentralized, and the size and focus of grants. View Details
Barrett, Diana, Sarah Aaron, and Cassandra Hanley. "SBC Foundation, The." Harvard Business School Case 303-016, November 2002. (Revised January 2003.)
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that women have to give up their aspirations and identity because of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead
to give special focus to building sustainable private and public institutions for inclusive growth following the COVID-19 pandemic. I had the great honor of moderating a keynote session with H.E. Phumzile... View Details
- 27 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations
- Web
Reunions - Alumni
Volunteer Reunions Help With Your Reunion Reunions simply aren’t possible without a diverse team of classmates helping to make them happen. Just a few hours of your time can help ensure that you and your classmates have a memorable... View Details
- Research Summary
Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
By: Tatiana Sandino
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
- Web
Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online
business professionals. Learn from and network with peers before, during, and after your course. Ask questions, collaborate, give feedback, and... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
quality, such as requiring reviewers to create publicly available profiles, and identifying some as "elite reviewers" based on their number of reviews, so users can give them extra weight. Holding... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
performance. The board needs to be composed of individuals who are capable and interested in giving feedback. The board is also responsible for recommending an appropriate CEO compensation structure,... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
in the prior year. Cash giving to the endowment decreased to $77 million, from $80 million in fiscal 2021. Cash giving for capital projects totaled $5 million, compared with $8 million in the prior year.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
I thought the JD would give me a rigorous academic framework to engage with policies and regulations, and the MBA would give me a diverse network... View Details
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Impact of the New Medium - 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... View Details
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Wyss House | About
doctoral student fellowships and stipends, field research, course development, teaching-skills training, awards for outstanding scholarship, and renovation of the doctoral facilities. Wyss believes View Details
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3D Negotiaton
In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
and venture capital firm based in Boston, Roe Stamps began to think about succession. “When our VPs became new partners, I told them that someday they would run the company,” says Stamps, whose declaration was probably met with... View Details