Publications

19 Feb 2025
News

Data and Technology in Action: Community Colleges Advancing Economic Mobility

November–December 1991
Article

Retrospective Forty Years Later of Roethlisberger and Roger's Barriers and Gateways to Communication

By: J. J. Gabarro

Keywords: Communication

Web

A Vital Residential Community | About

A Vital Residential Community Designed with the belief that daily interactions increase the potential for learning. Take a Tour Maps & Directions Contemporary Art A Commitment to Sustainability HBS is the only top business school in the... View Details

07 Jul 2023
News

A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer... View Details

August 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

Revenue Recognition Problems in the Communications Equipment Industry

By: Paul M. Healy and Arjuna J Costa

Designed to explore recognition issues in the context of a potential market downturn. In late 2000, Lucent Technologies reports multiple revisions to its recent financial results due to revenue recognition problems, leading to a dramatic decline in its stock price.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Revenue Recognition; Policy; Supply and Industry; Performance; Communications Industry

June 1981
Article

Communications Strategy for the Nation-State

By: R. S. Tedlow and John A. Quelch

Keywords: Communication

December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Compensation at Level 3 Communications

Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying manager's performance more closely to that of the firm,... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Telecommunications Industry

29 Nov 2018
Blog Post

The HBS Community - Student Initiatives

helped teach us about the world around us. This year, the HBS Student Association started two initiatives, Eat & Engage and Community MyTakes, to help us get to know our HBS View Details

March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Managing Science Communication at Bayer

By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam

1994
Book

Managing Business Enterprises after Communism

By: Gary W. Loveman, Simon Johnson and David T. Kotchen

20 Jan 2016
News

Engaging the Business Community in Collective Impact

18 Apr 2011
News

It's Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

April 2011 (Revised July 2014)
Case

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; India

Research Summary

Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details

Article

Starting Over: Poland after Communism

By: Simon Johnson and Gary W. Loveman

For the forum's topic of collective intelligence, Karim Lakhani participated as a speaker in "a conversation about the theory and practice of collective intelligence, with emphasis on Wikipedia, other instances of aggregated intellectual work and on recent... View Details

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

I’ve known for a while that I want to be a community developer, and I want to start that work in my hometown of Detroit. I desire to create beautiful spaces and experiences for... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

January 1989
Background Note

Managing Information Technology: Communications Networks

By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport

Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure

February 1993
Background Note

Teaching Notes: Communicating the Teacher's Wisdom

By: James E. Austin

Provides guidance for the preparation of teaching notes. Sets forth the rationale for teaching notes, what they should contain and why, and how they can be prepared. Based on the experiences of Harvard Business School faculty. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Teaching