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February 2023 (Revised March 2023)
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Hey, Insta & YouTube, Are You Watching TikTok?

In early 2023, the entertainment app TikTok reached close to 1 billion users globally, placing it 4th behind the leading social networks of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Featuring a sophisticated recommendation engine, TikTok mastered the art of keeping users... View Details

Keywords: Social Media; Applications and Software; Business Model; Competition; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Elizabeth Heard, November 6, 1841. EH. Jacques M. Downs, The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy , 1784–1844. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997, p. 219. John Heard... View Details

30 Jul 2001
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What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

"outsider," director membership on the audit committee has been strongly prescribed. Increasingly, audit committees are called to task for their responsibilities and required to co-sign important communications to shareholders.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

that provided the impetus for the startup to take off. “Having the space and enabling conditions to work on a business in a community of other founders was the catalyst,” Theuerkauf says. The cofounders also credit their... View Details

Keywords: April White

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

how automated cars might be designed to minimize major accidents. For their time-use study, the researchers conducted online interviews with about 400 knowledge workers, who make up a large percentage of commuters on today’s roadways and whose work often specializes in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Liz Plooster

of faith! New friends to grow with, so much to learn, plenty of restaurants to try, and a whole new side of the country to explore. Being part of the HBS community is like A camping trip with new friends. Although we may leave exhausted,... View Details

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

Rock Summer Fellows enables students to continue to explore their entrepreneurial path, both as founders and as those interested in joining early-stage startups, through a 10-week summer fellowship that provides not only financial support but a peer network and View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

industrial company committed to both the natural world and the growth of the Brazilian communities where it operated. Lorentzen served as chairman of Aracruz until 2004; under his leadership, the company built a world-class research... View Details

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

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

to doing the right thing. Mayank Dubey Manager, Marketing Communications Sustainable Business Strategy The course content is well designed and helps investors get a basic understanding of what sustainable finance is, its challenges, the... View Details

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

remote—compared with 5 percent before the pandemic—many companies are already setting up frequent informal chats online to keep the communication lines with remote employees open. “I’ve already had conversations with several companies... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

29 Mar 2013
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Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

OneTen is also partnering with education and training organizations—skills “providers”—such as nonprofits, community colleges, and credentialing groups. When an employer hires a Black applicant without a four-year degree through OneTen, a... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

25 Mar 2015
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Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free or a small fee. Several online... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

adopt the innovation later. Since innovators are the first to adopt and are more likely to influence others, they do not need to be influenced. However, organizations should harness their influence, using targeted communication to... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

higher communication rate, and thus better performance. If set to no, LSF does not bind the job core on the CPU socket to the GPU, but does ensure that the job is pinned to one or more cores (it does not bounce around == less performance)... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Wilkins began his career as a finance and management consultant before becoming president of Syndicated Communications in 1977. Wilkins served in that capacity through 1989, then took posts as managing general partner of Syncom Capital... View Details

10 Nov 2021
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Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

Corps upon graduating from Harvard College. Now, as a joint degree candidate at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School, Solís aims to discover new ways to serve his country and community through the intersection of business and... View Details

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Data Privacy Statement (MENA) - Global

may also receive data from direct communications with the individuals. The Center stores personal data in accordance with the Law and processes such data, for the purposes explained herein, within the scope of the legitimate interests of... View Details

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

recognizes the extraordinary achievements of graduating students who have had a positive impact on Harvard Business School, Harvard, and our broader communities through exceptional leadership and engagement. In 2019, nine recipients were... View Details

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