Multiple Audience Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

The so-called chicken-and-egg problem is arguably the most discussed and most obvious business dilemma in the sharing economy. Platform providers–like Uber, Airbnb, or Etsy–rely on both consumers and producers to create and sustain a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

problems with the firm's strategy was captured in the multiple performance measures of its Balanced Scorecard. Key concepts include: Store24's Balanced Scorecard contained useful and timely information for... View Details

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Introduction - The Collection - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Collection: Data Analysis Photography has the capacity for accounting for things seen in the visual world with an exactitude for their differences which no... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

organization. Its funding was secure through 2006 because of a government-collected licensing fee, but it had lost audience share, experienced declining ratings, and was being outpaced by commercial competitors. Skepticism and cynicism... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

Skilled improvisational musicians practice alone and with others for hours every day, year after year—notes, scales, chords, and progressions. After all of this practice comes a performance, and an improvisation begins. For musicians and View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

activities by business groups and leaders; helping business leaders organize around the sort of system-level issues discussed at the colloquium and establishing ongoing dialogue among multiple business stakeholders; training future... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide View Details

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

firms have chosen to hire people with local experience and to often partner with a variety of key local firms. In PCMPCL, one of our reasons for choosing the top eighteen universities as our target audience is the belief that over time,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

25 Feb 2020
News

From Das’s Desk

nature of these sessions—incorporating reflective exercises, workshops, and increased audience interaction—will be seen in a number of other sessions this spring. Most notable among these will be a presentation and discussion on happiness... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

wanted to avoid turning Tweezerman into one more failure in what had been a previous career of multiple entrepreneurial misfires. What if this last and greatest airplane, which had finally begun to fly—and fly high—now crashed and burned... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

the trick in the story. Once you have buy-in, the audience is much more likely to have a wow experience." Failure Is Part Of The Process Innovations don't appear out of thin air; rather, people need to actively "intend to innovate,"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2008
News

Creativity from Many Angles

off the conference. “During the discussion, participants on the panel and in the audience used metaphors such as ‘gardener’ and ‘shepherd’ to describe the appropriate role of managers in supporting the creative process,” says Amabile, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

11 Feb 2016
News

Many Voices Working Toward a Solution

problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat... View Details

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

Historians have the wisdom granted by time. But for researchers trying to understand current events, especially in the helter-skelter Internet age, the world can change completely before the digital ink dries on the manuscript. That View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

01 Mar 2007
News

Gore All Business at HBS

WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Bright Future for Green Business

venture capital panelists tackled two questions posed by the moderator, HBS professor Bill Sahlman: What are the opportunities in clean, green energy? And what big issues stand in the way of those opportunities? There’s no shortage of opportunity, the panelists told... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

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3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+... View Details

13 Oct 2016
News

Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate across View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Mar 2012
Op-Ed

Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline

Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation

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Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - MBA