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- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
found six managerial barriers that hindered communication from lower levels getting to the top, among them ineffectiveness of the leadership team. “Unvarnished employee and stakeholder feedback is key in... View Details
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
How to Support Your Employees' Career Development
to develop leadership skills within their teams. “It’s on the manager to understand the block in the way of the employee and help remove barriers so they can enable employees... View Details
- July 2021
- Article
Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences
By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
Anicich, Eric, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne, and L. Taylor Phillips. "Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences." Art. 104117. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 95 (July 2021).
- Teaching Interest
Leading Professional Service Firms
By: Andy Wu
As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm... View Details
- September 2017
- Case
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking service provider with several of the... View Details
Keywords: Tencent; Tencent Holdings; WeChat; Social Networking; Social Networks; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Video Games; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Portals; Payments; Mobile Payments; O2O; Online-to-offline; E-commerce; Messaging; Subscription Model; Freemium; Mobile App Industry; Smartphone; PC; Monetization Strategy; Antitrust; Streaming; Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Alibaba; Facebook; JD.com; Tesla; Bundling; Synergies; Digital Strategy; Imitation; Licensing; Agility; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Communication; Communication Technology; Blogs; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Media; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Opportunities; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Value Creation; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; Asia; China; Canton (province, China)
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Tencent." Harvard Business School Case 718-426, September 2017.
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
leading them. And so, if we can make better leaders, we can get to that beautiful, operational Nirvana. Senz: What are some of the biggest and most common barriers to effective... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Project. ARF’s current Homecoming Initiative is raising money for four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU): Howard University, Florida A&M University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College. Additionally, in an ongoing effort View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
poses a barrier to the firm’s global ambitions. “There was a huge language barrier between the Tokyo office and our subsidiaries outside Japan,” he observes in a 2011 HBS case... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
polarizing barrier to collaboration,” Neeley says. “But no one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS... View Details
- 2025
- Book
Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau
Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.
Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details
Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Economics; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Brendan Rosseau. Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier. Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.
- 05 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS
barrier for anyone to attend business school and they ensure that no student is required to take on too much debt. HBS wants everyone who is admitted View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off
build off their current momentum. Breaking barriers to entrepreneurship It's hard to imagine that with all this success, they're still devoting only part of their time View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
This chapter contrasts and compares the ways different colonial states in West Africa developed local fiscal capacity. We show that per capita revenues were higher in the more commercialised coastal export economies than in remote parts of the interior. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Capacity; Public Debt; French West Africa; British West Africa; Geography; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal State Formation in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960." In Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Africa and Asia, c. 1850–1960, edited by Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth, 161–192. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- July 2023
- Case
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)
By: Ayelet Israeli
DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Nutrition; Market Entry and Exit; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels
Israeli, Ayelet. "DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 524-015, July 2023.
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Oct 2017
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10 Skills Teens Need to Succeed in Today's Economy
In a recent study by Payscale, most employers surveyed said that college grads don't possess the soft skills they are looking for. This issue, along with the dramatic increase in the cost of a college education, suggests that parents need to become much more engaged in... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products
Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
many diversified media companies viewed entry into cable as a hedge: they believed that their newspaper readership and broadcasting audiences might decline over time due to competition with cable, and wanted... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding