Media Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Nov 2020
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COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

consumer, bankruptcies dropped 28 percent year-over-year. Chapter 11 business bankruptcies climbed 35 percent year-over-year and by 194 percent for corporations with more than $50 million in assets. However, when small businesses are included, total business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto] Related Reading For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

other videos? Yes, this has been done commonly, by us, and by others. For example, you might find videos on popular media sites about more contemporary issues related to a particular organization or company,... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Virginian-Pilot, a daily newspaper owned by his uncle. After graduating from the University of Virginia (UVA), serving in the Merchant Marine, and earning a Harvard MBA in 1952, he took a job as a reporter and ad salesman for his uncle's View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

emissions from the entire state of Florida every year for the next nine years" for the White House, key US agencies, state capitals, business leaders, and Congress to meet the Paris Agreement goal of reducing emissions 50 percent by 2030. At a Council on Foreign View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

recommended to access the rich media in the program. The course platform allows you to engage with the content and watch the course videos with bandwidth of at least 750 Kbps download speed. At this speed, you may experience video... View Details

24 Aug 2020
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How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

Author Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition How Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the 2015 Barry Shrage Community Builder Award from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Honored as The Civic Tech Innovator of the Year in 2015 by Civic Tech Challenge and Generation Citizen.... View Details

21 Apr 2021
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The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

conversations with individual employees during this critical time. Conversations are the best way to get leaders and employees back into the practice of relating to one another in person. How are people doing? What challenges are they... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

challenging, is achievable. Take HBS colleague Benjamin G. Edelman, an expert in online markets whose research focuses on consumer protection related to online businesses. “My research is made better by choosing questions that are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Media, and Sports Professor Anita Elberse No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info What does the future of entertainment look like? Fueled by advances in digital technology, will a select few superstars in media and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

organizational behavior. "I love the intellectual hunt behind research," he says. "It's a process of trying to understand elements that initially don't seem to have any relation to one another. When they come together, it's a big... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Aug 2012
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Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

01 Dec 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You

brands best use social media to collaborate with consumers? One way is to use social media as a sounding board in advance of major decisions. Social media makes it easy for us... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jul 2014
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Team Players

from mobile devices. Next, social media, in the form of Facebook and Twitter, became the information workhorse, serving two roles. Initially, social media was used to engage fans during the buildup to Super Bowl week. That included... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

02 Jul 2012
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Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

and emissions of toxic chemicals. A Faulty Insurance Policy The researchers hypothesized that those companies that had higher CSR ratings would be more likely to be reported in the media if a spill occurred. After all, it's not news when... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

changing media landscape is going to be resolved in the United States, and I think the interest in trying to regulate the big social media companies is all related to this... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)

Above: “Mainstream media is read by less than half of the people in the United States and Western Europe,” Edelman (MBA 1978) says. “The opportunity is to build your own communities, create your own content, and go direct to the end... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

01 Dec 2011
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Inside MTV’s Global Fame

Related Links Watch Bill Roedy describe his approach to taking MTV global In 1989, Bill Roedy (MBA ’79) was told to transform the American success story MTV into a global presence. Twenty years later, Roedy had built the largest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

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