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  • July 2007 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

ABRY Fund V

By: Nabil N. El-Hage, Richard S. Ruback and Leslie Pierson
In January 2006, Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Venture Capital; Customer Relationship Management; Asset Management; Private Equity; Judgments; Competitive Strategy; Media; Corporate Finance; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

like. “It’s presumably making workers happier and more productive, and helping their communities and their organizations,” he says. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 11 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff
  • Research Summary

Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams (Dissertation)

Multicultural teams are becoming increasingly prevlaent and crucial for organizational success, yet they face many challenges that stem from their cultural differences. How can multicultural teams mitigate the risks of working across... View Details
Keywords: Cultural Brokerage; Multicultural Teams; Cross-cultural Collaboration; Creativity
  • Research Summary

Cooperation and Solidarity

A third line of work explores the determinants of cooperative behavior within groups specifically the phenomenon of solidarity, which is understood as pro-social helping behavior which is not likely to be reciprocated directly by the receiver. Such behavior can be... View Details

    Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

    We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate... View Details

    • Article

    Making Exit Interviews Count

    By: Everett Spain and Boris Groysberg
    In the knowledge economy, skilled employees are the assets that drive organizational success. Thus companies must learn from them—why they stay, why they leave, and how the organization needs to change. A thoughtful exit interview—whether it be a face-to-face... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Management Practices and Processes; Retention; Resignation and Termination
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    • 01 Mar 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

    (iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 24 Mar 2016
    • Blog Post

    Learning to Code at Business School

    These days more and more MBA students are choosing to pursue a career in tech. At HBS, 20% of the Class of 2015 went into the tech industry after graduation and the Code Club is an active student group on campus. For many, having some basic coding View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment on Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork and Expertise

    By: Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Charles Ayoubi, Hila Lifshitz, Raffaella Sadun, Ethan Mollick, Lilach Mollick, Yi Han, Jeff Goldman, Hari Nair, Stew Taub and Karim R. Lakhani
    We examine how artificial intelligence transforms the core pillars of collaboration— performance, expertise sharing, and social engagement—through a pre-registered field experiment with 776 professionals at Procter & Gamble, a global consumer packaged goods company.... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Teamwork; Human-machine Interaction; Productivity; Skills; Innovation; Field Experiment; AI and Machine Learning; Groups and Teams; Competency and Skills; Performance Productivity; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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    • 2020
    • Article

    Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

    By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
    In this essay, we explore how strategic management research and practice could benefit from considering the benefits and challenges obtainable through working with user communities. User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and... View Details
    Keywords: User Communities; Innovation; Open Source; Collaboration; Cooperative Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 02 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

    Keywords: by Ruth Wageman & Teresa M. Amabile

      Michael L. Tushman

      Michael Tushman holds degrees from Northeastern University (B.S.E.E.), Cornell University (M.S.), and the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. (Ph.D.). Tushman was on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, from 1976 to 1998 where he was... View Details

      • 02 Jan 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Gurus in the Garage

      "is like any gas that is compressed; it gets hotter." Its tribes overlap socially and professionally based on work discipline (software engineers, for example), organizational affiliation (Hewlett-Packard), or background... View Details
      Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
      • 05 Sep 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: September 5, 2006

        Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      Workforce Change

      By: Sandra J. Sucher

      This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through... View Details

      Keywords: Layoffs; Leadership And Change Management; Global Innovation; Strategic Decision Making; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; China; Japan; Brazil
      • November–December 2024
      • Article

      Loss of Peers and Individual Worker Performance: Evidence From H-1B Visa Denials

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kirk Doran, Astrid Marinoni and Chungeun Yoon
      We study how restrictive immigration policies that result in the unexpected loss of co-workers affect the performance of skilled migrants employed in organizations. Specifically, we examine the impact of the loss of team members on their co-workers’ performance in... View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Performance Productivity; Employees; Human Capital; Ethnicity; Groups and Teams
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        James L. Heskett

        James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

        • 24 Aug 2018
        • Blog Post

        Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020

        about the new program and this is what we learned: What excites you most about the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? Adar Anon  BS, Computer Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  "I am most excited about studying and working... View Details

          Gabe Weinreb

          I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details