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- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and 1970's View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
States and the European Union. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49803 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a network revenue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
demonstrate their impact on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the potential transition to clean technology can be difficult both because clean research must climb... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
corporate participants, including Merck, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and Walmart. Harvard Business School partnered with the group to help with research and data collection for additional study. A persistent labor View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
should be careful about the extent to which they engage in informal exchanges both within and outside their organizations. "Once you start engaging in these informal tit-for-tat exchanges, it may increase your susceptibility to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
starting the venture subsequently drops out. When the venture gets financing or is ready to go public, this partner returns, perhaps with an inflated view of what his or her contribution was, demanding equity. This View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
$2,650 Next 10-week session starts June 17th Next 17-week session starts July 15th Apply to CORe Apply to CORe for Credit Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business, CORe is a business... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
reclaim your life using a formula that’s ultimately rooted in less: Financial Health + Emotional Wealth = MoneyZen. The result is a powerful, research-based framework for getting off the hamster wheel of 24/7 striving so you can start to... View Details
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Mark McNeill
“Englishnization” case in LEAD, my Japanese classmate and I engaged in a role play where he answered the professor’s opening cold call in Japanese and I responded to his points in Japanese as well. Our back and forth went on for the first... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
and laborers for employment and better climate Massive dust storms uproot millions Smallest ten-year increase in population: 123-132 million Influence: Medium-High 40 1940 s 19 Baby boom begins Suburbs start to form Influence: High 50... View Details
- 27 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards
late on average by 21 minutes. 11.6 percent of shifts were marked absent. Employees missed the start of morning shifts—between 6 a.m. and noon—most. Part-time workers struggled most with coming in on time. One employee’s lateness or... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
indeed, Scott became a martyr, a great hero for English history. This meant that Shackleton was perceived to be out of the loop when he started to raise money. And as the winds of what would become World War I View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2018
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How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
hundreds of individuals spanning physical, organizational, cultural, geographic, and professional boundaries. Engineers, geologists, drilling specialists, and more came together from different organizations, sectors, and nations to work on the immensely challenging... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
inside-out perspective become attached to what they produce and sell and to their own organizations. In contrast, the outside-in perspective starts with the marketplace and delves deeply into the problems... View Details