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22 Sep 2023
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Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

food—including food as mundane as a carrot. Future experiments will delve into whether rituals affect productivity and morale in the workplace. A Sense Of Control Norton and Gino teamed up to conduct a series of grief experiments, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

where to focus their distribution energies between these three channels. Terry wonders whether they should focus on one or two of those streams, or if there’s a way to think more holistically about how they... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

22 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

for disability justice in the workplace, and I’m now focusing on making HBS a more inclusive place for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. Jeremy Fischer (MBA 2023) - VP of Academics and Research My primary focus within DAAG... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

minimills entered the rebar market, the integrated mills were happy to exit it. Their gross margins in the rebar business were a mere 7 percent, and rebar accounted for only 4 percent of the industry's tonnage. So the integrated mills decided to View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Events - Business History

Panelists addressed questions about the ways companies have interacted with multi-layered governance and commented on the past, present, and future of scholarship in this research area. As part of a larger conference series and... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

Currently, our sample focuses on impact investors and portfolio companies based in the United States, where approximately 52% of the world’s impact investors are located. [5] Future research will expand the Project on Impact Investments... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

They’ll open doors to a future career opportunity, introduce you to your significant other, or even help you get that hard-to-find restaurant reservation (this happened to me!). The people are what make this place truly one of a kind, and... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

caution that it’s a mistake to dwell on the familiar for too long, because the real audience is looking for “what is new, fresh, and unique.” 7. Focus on the job to be done One of the most challenging tensions is between product and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

responsibilities, that can affect organizational outcomes. Thus, organizations may be capable of integration while different functions retain different incentives to maintain focus on their stakeholders' needs. We hypothesize that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of knowledge that encompasses... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

disciplinary scholars have been working on the phenomena, but many of them were hesitant to be labeled as scholars of "leadership." In sociology, for example, such research might fall under the rubric of elite studies. In government or history, scholars might... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

could have positive long-term implications to any organization’s success. “We were surprised by the magnitude of the effects,” Pany says, noting that future studies could examine just how such relationships form and evolve. “There’s just... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Landman In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas... View Details

August 2019
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Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search

By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan

Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details

Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel

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Video Archive - Business & Environment

Highlights Video: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits? 10 May 2023 Highlights Video: Why Climate Is Central to Every Business Highlights Video: Why Climate Is Central to Every Business 10 May 2023 Closing Remarks: Your Role in the Climate View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

board do not intrude on each other's territory, the board, management, the shareholders, and the family council must cooperate, coordinate their activities, and communicate well with one another in order to have consistent and mutually supportive goals, plans, and... View Details

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