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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
News Sustainability and Business Models Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. Her dissertation research at HBS examined institutional leadership, organizational change, and the... View Details
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What Black Executives Really Want
say, "Yes, my company is trying, but ." This was one of the most emotional research projects I have ever done. I rarely tear up in an interview. But on multiple occasions, I really had tears in my eyes hearing people's stories. It was... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
with lower construction costs after many Japanese recoiled at its projected $2.7 billion price tag. "Hosting the Olympics, especially the larger Summer Games, is a globally recognized initiative for nation-branding via big... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
open, always. But that's not the case. In fact, one of the examples in our paper shows that a firm is more likely to use a proprietary business model when it faces competition from an outside OS project, particularly when the outside OS View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
ended up asking a McKinsey Partner whom I’d closely worked with on a real estate project in Saudi Arabia. Second, I wanted someone who had a macro-level view of my work performance over time, with different teams, and across various work... View Details
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
he had abandoned upon retirement? In some ways, he had: his new status is built upon the experiences he had acquired in previous roles. But in significant ways, Kloeblen’s leadership has assumed new and different priorities. Among his first initiatives is “Velocity... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
did in this project without developing feelings of admiration and affection which must have colored the account to some degree. Q: How did the idea for the book come about, and how did your personal relationship with Grove evolve over... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
control/monetize their data Smart applications “The lab architecture is about supporting projects that crisscross between research and practitioner outreach and pedagogical design in a very rapid-fire way,” says Scott Duke Kominers, the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Transitioning to Product Management at HBS
project 15% yoy growth in excel’ kind of way). In researching a role that might be best fit for me, I more or less stumbled upon product management, and once I had a rudimentary understanding of how multi-faceted the role can be, I was... View Details
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Sebastian Velasco
cultural, and economic aspects of the country." For the summer, Sebastian will consult with McKinsey in Mexico City, where he hopes to work on projects with "energy, infrastructure, and public-sector components. In a few years,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
discern whether contributions to open source projects help specific employees become more productive at coding. He also hopes to examine whether adding highly skilled open source software contributors to a team has a significant effect on... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
We're not providing a digital subscription, we're providing a subscription to an actual product, although it's invisible, in the real world and that means that the amount that people are willing to pay is much higher. We take a 19% fee on that transaction for curating... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)
insight into literally any industry, sector, or concept. What is the most exciting project or opportunity you’ve worked on? Co-founding a battery metals mining company, Black Mountain Metals, has been the most exciting professional... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
prepared for it.” Click Here Cote also emphasized to students that, as important as it was to avoid the disruption of layoffs and to preserve the company’s workforce, Honeywell also continued its process of “seed planting”—investing in R&D programs and other View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I... View Details
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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About
beyond in the study and appreciation of the lessons and legacies of business history, the endowment supports a wide range of innovative projects and programs associated with Historical Collections. In Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien’s words,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
"So is leadership about control, delegation, or theatre? It could be all three, or none of them. The answer lies in the projections of the potential followers." Ken Hedberg said, "You can tell who the leaders are by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett