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May 2022
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Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle

While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details

Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution

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20 Oct 2015
Blog Post

What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

haven’t read the case, you feel like you’re letting your section down. 50% of your grade will be based on participation, so being engaged and making relevant, thoughtful... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

have examples of interns taking on discrete pieces of work that worked out quite well based on their specific background, for example, in public policy or in government.” That... View Details

TeachingInterests

Strategy Execution

By: Dennis Campbell

This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:

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03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

implementation of strategic plans. This case stimulates reflections on the importance of costing systems, in particular Time-Driven Activity View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Research Summary

Financial reporting quality and its consequences

Does reporting quality have real economic consequences? Professor Yu addresses this question in her research, which examines the channels through which reporting quality affects the behavior of economic agents, namely managers and investors. Her particular focus is... View Details

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

a mobile base building game called Regent, and by taking a series of elective courses across multiple disciplines, from artificial intelligence to data science to business strategy. View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Social Enterprise Track, 2013 Bluelight John Ikeda, HKS Manoah Koletty, HKS Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of View Details

16 Aug 2011
First Look

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PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

Anita Elberse, a Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, studies high performers in creative industries—from basketball superstar LeBron James to pop diva Lady... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

pulling support should be based on the numbers in its prospectus, not on emotional reactions to Adam Neumann. There has been a paucity of this analysis. With co-author Sean... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

professionals may be confronted with a sense of psychological impasse and how they can free themselves. Martha Lagace: What sorts of thoughts, feelings, and images do people experience when they face an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During View Details

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

delivering health, water, energy, and agriculture services to economic base of the pyramid in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. As CIO, he was a... View Details

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

10,000 senior marketing executives based in San Jose, California. “There is often a disconnect between practitioners and academics, who tend to be far removed from operational complexities and market dynamics.” Donovan Neale-May,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

skills. And fast. “I always tell undergrads that what you're learning is how to learn a set of skills that will have to change over time as demands change,” Greenstein says. “You should expect a dynamic market and a changing set View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

base of decades of archival research, what remains the most convincing explanation for the growth View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Keywords: Banking, Telecom, Financial Services

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

School. By incorporating data most companies discard, Ascarza and her co-researcher devised an algorithm capable of quickly analyzing more than 40 variables to create a “first impression” of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

structure their lives in a fictional, diverse city. They were allowed to customize different aspects of the city layout based on their personal preferences, such as where to... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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