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- 2016
- Working Paper
Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs
By: Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti
The “net neutrality” principle has triggered a heated debate, and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants... View Details
Greenstein, Shane, Martin Peitz, and Tommaso Valletti. "Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-offs." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21950, January 2016.
- 2010
- Chapter
Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
By: Joel Podolny, Rakesh Khurana and Marya Hill-Popper
During the past 50 years, organizational scholarship on leadership has shifted from a focus on the significance of leadership for meaning-making to the significance of leadership for economic performance. This shift has been problematic for two reasons. First, it has... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Economics; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Behavior
Podolny, Joel, Rakesh Khurana, and Marya Hill-Popper. "Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership." Chap. 3 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Promoting social enterprise in business
Aurora Rotes Casanova (MBA 2009) is helping promote more socially oriented projects inside companies and calculating their value. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Using technology to find quality care
Care.com founder and CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo (MBA 1998) is the driving force behind a technology platform that helps families find solutions to their caregiver needs. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education. Curiel cofounded Rising Farmworker Dream Fund (RFDF), which... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure of stability to the strife-torn... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
CEO Personality and Firm Policies
By: Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits:... View Details
Gow, Ian D., Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina. "CEO Personality and Firm Policies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22435, July 2016.
- January 1980
- Case
Technotronics, Inc.
Describes the problems of resolving differences between two departments in a decentralized company. Based on Voltamp Electric Co. by T.C. Raymond. View Details
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Technotronics, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 480-054, January 1980.
- 1998
- Chapter
The Converging Worlds of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment
By: P. W. Bane, S. P. Bradley and D. J. Collins
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring and defining a vision of responsible business leadership
Harvard Business School Visiting Scholar Karthik Ramanna talks about the School's role in promoting ethical thinking and responsible action by business leaders. (Published April 2014) View Details
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
said, absolutely, you know, let's get into this. You know, how much is the grinding mill? And they said it's $150. And I said, well, number one, we're obviously going to do that, but number two, I want to take your story back to where I'm from, where this idea of View Details
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
Venture capital firms ask themselves tough questions these days. Among them: how can they dig out of the dot-com collapse? How should they invest going forward? How should the leader of a firm strike the right note for the future? And is it a field that graduating MBAs... View Details
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
American Mobile Satellite Corp., Teaching Note
By: Frank V. Cespedes
Teaching Note for (9-593-038). View Details
- September 1985 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
CompuServe (A)
By: James L. Heskett
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Communications Industry; Communications Industry
Heskett, James L. "CompuServe (A)." Harvard Business School Case 386-067, September 1985. (Revised October 1989.)
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Education to publishing to MBA admissions and placement. FIELD 2 Students in Casablanca The School is committed to creating an environment where every mem ber of the HBS community is able to thrive and do their best work in support of the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
entrepreneurial, to drive change. We went into South LA and East LA and Inglewood, into communities that had great kids, but frankly the kids had been failed for a really long time by the public school system. “We just started an... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
The Case for Employee-Owned Companies
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they implement, major platforms face... View Details