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- 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
- 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7
Gardner Abstract Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Melcolm Ruffin
through his high school education, he came across an article in ESPN Magazine about sports management that listed specialty undergraduate programs. Melcolm conducted his "own research and due diligence," selecting the University... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
On May 31, 2012, after 36 years on the Milan Stock Exchange, Benetton was officially delisted and taken private by Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company. Since 2000, Benetton shareholders had seen its market value fall from $4.3 billion to $720 million at the... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Fashion; Retail; Privatization; Family Ownership; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Globalized Firms and Management; Change Management; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Italy
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Benetton Group S.p.A., 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-513, May 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
economics and political system. Datar: MBAs need to understand what it means to be a general manager in a global world and the differences in institutions, norms, cultures, and legal frameworks. It would be fascinating, for example, to... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
experience on performance. We do, however, see evidence of a moderating effect of team familiarity on the relationship between these two variables. Our paper identifies one mechanism for uniting knowledge acquisition and knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market in... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 08 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
How I Chose My HBS Recommenders
graduating, I worked briefly for a Cambridge-based education startup named NuVu, before switching into management consulting and joining McKinsey. I spent time at McKinsey’s Dubai and New York offices, where I worked in a variety of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral student MoonSoo Choi found that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
research and development process, manufacturing and clinical research strategy as well as offline retail. Hilary has a finance, consumer products and retail background, notably as brand manager of FIJI Water. Most recently, Hilary led... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) arrived at McDonald’s in 2014 as vice president of strategy and insights, she asked her team about the most common requests... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
organization, specifically, closed-source (or proprietary) versus open-source (or distributed) development. Our results reveal significant differences in modularity, consistent with a view that distributed teams tend to develop more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
and around the world, can accomplish. Sally Sorte Bernstein | Class of 2021 Little(s): Olivia (4 months) Pre-HBS Industry: Education, Tech, Management Consulting Proudest Accomplishment: Giving birth to Olivia (standing up) on Christmas... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
management positions in tech companies are held by people identifying as female (Source: Statista); 27% of female respondents to a PwC study considered a tech career, compared to 62% of males respondents (Source: PwC). In light of these... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
them, which ultimately meant that I was representing people like my mother who is a CalPERS beneficiary, required challenging those firms who managed their money to do the right thing on behalf of their limited partners, not themselves.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
meaning and connectedness that people get or don’t get from their employment.” What better jobs means in practice for Medoff and the team he leads at Arosa is a dedication to people. They have a culture of gratitude that shows up in... View Details
- April 2024 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Note
eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-360.The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the... View Details