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  • 25 Oct 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases

Keywords: by Richard L. Nolan; Education
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

that what worked for him in the 20th century would not work today. Some might argue that what worked for Frances Hesselbein in a nonprofit organization would not View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • Research Summary

Institutional influences on the firm: cross-country comparisons

A third stream of work examines the influence of country institutions on firms in a cross-country comparative context.  In a paper co-authored with Jordan Siegel (published in Management Science in 2009), we employed a quasi-natural experiment:  a... View Details
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

The launch of ChatGPT seems to have reignited doomsday fears about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing workers en masse. Are these fears prescient or overblown? A recent survey shows 62 percent of Americans think AI will majorly impact View Details
  • Research Summary

Pioneer- Entrepreneurship and Industry Emergence

This set of projects studies entrepreneurship in a creative industry-i.e. high-end fashion in India-with the main aim of understanding industry emergence and the role of pioneer-entrepreneurs.

Fashioning an Industry: How Entrepreneurs and Others... View Details

    Jeremy Yang

    Jeremy Yang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Marketing in the MBA required curriculum. He develops data products for... View Details
    Keywords: advertising; media; entertainment; information; consumer products
    • 04 Aug 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

    commented, "The cost of creation is increasing in every creative area ." Len Bullard wrote, "As Yeom Tae Seon points out, scarcity based on digital format is only one domain. The other is scarcity of ideas and talent."... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • February 2022 (Revised November 2022)
    • Case

    Fondeadora

    By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui and Mitchell Weiss
    Norman Müller and René Serrano, cofounders of Fondeadora, a Mexican “neobank,” had lined up a $12.5 million in Series A funding round in 2020 only to run into a major obstacle: The lead investor was Gradient Ventures, a venture firm launched by Alphabet, Inc., and... View Details
    Keywords: Fundraising; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Institutions; Business Startups; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Mexico City; Latin America
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    • 22 Feb 2021
    • Book

    Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

    components: actionable customer selection criteria (because resources spent on accounts A and B are not available for accounts C, D, and so on); clarity about the buying process for target customers as it works today, not yesterday; and... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 26 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

    Sciences (SEAS) and Harvard Business School, will soon head to SpaceX, where she’ll work in the direct-to-cell connectivity department. Along with enabling normal cell phone features such as text messaging and phone calls, that technology... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Re-Producing Exclusivity: A History of the Transatlantic Fashion Industry, 1929-1960

    The history of fashion has been increasingly explored over the last decade, but two important and intertwined features of the topic are still underdeveloped: business and its international aspect. These dimensions are crucial. Fashion is first and foremost an industry... View Details
    • 14 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

    behavior that make this redeployment feasible and sustainable over time. "A vast majority of the initiatives that companies are implementing do not require large capital investments or radical innovation." How companies are responding This thoroughness and... View Details
    Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
    • 26 Nov 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: November 26

    commitments are likely to emerge in the marketplace. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-038.pdf Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance
    • 14 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

    developing in-house advertising capabilities, especially in technology-oriented and creative industries. Working with Silk on the study were Sharon Horsky of Bar-Ilan University and Steven C. Michael (HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
    • January–February 2014
    • Article

    IDEO's Culture of Helping

    By: Teresa Amabile, Colin M. Fisher and Julianna Pillemer
    Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Behavior; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • Article

    What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

    By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand
    Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers... View Details
    Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Service Delivery; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Framework
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    • 04 Feb 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: February 4

    traditional organizations for coordinating the collective efforts of creative workers. However, it is surprising that they result in any productive output as individuals often work without direct monetary... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
    • 05 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5

    one reward from one category and another reward from another category than they were to obtain two rewards from a pool that included all items from either reward category. As a result, they worked longer when potential rewards for their... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

    2019 New York: PublicAffairs Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman