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Negotiation Course Online | HBS Online
and the feedback you received from fellow students. Together, we hope the module summary documents and workbook will be powerful resources to support your negotiation success in the months and years after you finish the course. How do I... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
States. Two years later, Morgan was able to underwrite federal bonds to help finance Civil War debt. The firm was reorganized after Drexel’s death and renamed J.P. Morgan & Company in 1895. By 1900, Morgan’s firm was one of the most View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
managerial human capital explanation of retention. Download the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/jwulf/TargetCEOWulfSinghSeptember2010.pdf Working PapersReversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas Author:David Moss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing
- January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Duolingo: On a 'Streak'
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Nicole Tempest Keller and Nicole Luo
In December 2024, Severin Hacker, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duolingo, reflected on the remarkable evolution of the language-learning app he helped launch in 2011. As the #1 most downloaded education app in the world, Duolingo had over 100 million... View Details
Keywords: Learning; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Diversification; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Technology Industry; Education Industry; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Nicole Tempest Keller, and Nicole Luo. "Duolingo: On a 'Streak'." Harvard Business School Case 825-097, January 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
- September 30, 2019
- Article
Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift." Behavioral Scientist (September 30, 2019).
- Article
Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence
By: Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer... View Details
Keywords: Tying; Platform Strategy; Google; Product; Quality; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Management Science 65, no. 2 (February 2019): 596–603.
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
By: Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as “digital disruption” and on the other by a widening gap between the... View Details
Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Das Narayandas. "The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-019, September 2016.
- 2024
- Working Paper
When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes
By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
Kaps, Christian, and Simone Marinesi. "When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes." Working Paper, October 2024.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Men as Cultural Ideals: How Culture Shapes Gender Stereotypes
By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong and Michael I. Norton
Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1, Americans rated men as less interdependent than women; Koreans, however, showed the... View Details
Cuddy, Amy J.C., Susan Crotty, Jihye Chong, and Michael I. Norton. "Men as Cultural Ideals: How Culture Shapes Gender Stereotypes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-097, May 2010.
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of finance after graduation have... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
governments play a role? A: IP addresses are given out by five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). In North America, our RIR is the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). RIRs are private nonprofits, not a government agency, and their View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
careers of Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk, and Jobs, who used their charisma to champion their ambitious vision, create revolutionary new products and services, and attain power and influence. In this excerpt from the book, Tedlow discusses how... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
business, but I had to identify all aspects and either manage them myself or place capable and trustworthy individuals in areas that weren’t in my own skill set. The image of the boat builder hiding in his basement was a powerful... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
there are stumbling blocks and challenges when creating something so new as an agile network. The most powerful person who reported to Davidson hated the dual system and "everything that went with it," Kotter writes. He argued there was... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
which to compete for power in the other." Scott argues that past analyses by proponents of the Friedman school of economics fall short because they regard markets and pricing mechanisms as the means by which economies are to a large... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
adding powerful dimensions to its image, triggering ripples that flow down to major industries, companies, and residents. And tapping into consumers’ deepest aspirations can pay off for decades to come—consider Apple. “If I'm using Apple,... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Money, Time, and Grant Design
By: Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham
We conduct survey experiments to test how the design of scientific grants—
the money and time awarded—can be used to manage researchers. On average,
researchers are relatively unwilling to trade off money for time when choosing
among grants. However, there is... View Details
Myers, Kyle, and Wei Yang Tham. "Money, Time, and Grant Design." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-037, December 2023. (Revised June 2025.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of the Electric View Details
- March 2022 (Revised June 2022)
- Case
The United States National Security Apparatus, Multipolarity, and the Rise of Commercial Space
By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Brendan L. Rosseau
In 2019, the U.S. national security community crossed a Rubicon by declaring that space was “a war-fighting domain” and undergoing a major reorganization, including the creation of the U.S. Space Force, the first new military branch in over 70 years. Military and... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew C., and Brendan L. Rosseau. "The United States National Security Apparatus, Multipolarity, and the Rise of Commercial Space ." Harvard Business School Case 722-063, March 2022. (Revised June 2022.)