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30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

bucket. To distinguish, I found myself having to consistently un-explain and re-explain certain elements of my life that stemmed clearly from my Filipino heritage and that were different — why I always had spare tamarind soup packets in... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

launching and running their business,” Bussgang says. “I would bet their customers—major retailers who are counting on Syrup’s platform for mission-critical business processes—would be surprised to learn that James and Ferdinand were still students at HBS when they... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 1999
News

A Taste of Tradition

beverages, and pharmaceuticals, Kikkoman is a $2-billion global enterprise that still retains its family flavor. Kikkoman's executive managing director is Kenzaburo ("Ken") Mogi (MBA '73). Given that company tradition allows only one member per generation from each of... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

communicate with each other on the large-scale—particularly, the global scale—necessary to share such information.” Security of individual accounts. Of the 10 most-used software packages in the analysis, the CII team found that seven were... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

firms; and by using direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA). First, they employed the complex mathematical formulas of traditional models to study different marketing strategies used by the drug companies. They found that the IPS property... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl Størmer, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

and complements perfectly the physical business we have built so far.” Another example is MyoMaster, a company that specializes in recovery products and knowledge for athletes. Founded by couple Joe Gray and Lottie Whyte, MyoMaster... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

beginning. We have founded a nonprofit think tank, Innosight Institute, to promote the ideas from our work to the stakeholders in the system so that we can help create meaningful change. We also are employing the think tank to continue... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

in Norway but settled in Brazil as a young man, made a gift in his honor to establish the Erling Lorentzen Business and Environment Initiative Fund. A pioneer in the field of sustainable development, Lorentzen founded his pulp-making... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

Keywords: by Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels & Sunil Gupta; Advertising

Research Summary

THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities. Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

Winter 2021
Editorial

Introduction

By: Michael A. Wheeler

This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning

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by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007

A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a flight surgeon in the air force, Dr. Thomas F. Frist... View Details

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

classic," says Matthew McEvoy (HBS MBA '89), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856, the creator of the iconic trench coat has outfitted movie stars, outdoor sportsmen, the British military, and the Royal Family. In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

course to your organization . Learner Stories 76% found HBS Online to be more impactful than other online business programs The academic rigor was thrilling. What made it extra special was the people I met through the experience. That... View Details

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

2020
Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details

Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States