Initial Coin Offering - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

require digital transformations to be more iterative than other forms of corporate change. Leaders need to catalyze change rather than plan for it. That means creating the initial conditions for the organization to achieve its ambitions... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

focus more narrowly on specific initiatives and projects. They usually rely on their managers (or in many cases, BTLs) for a cross-enterprise view. Developing these types of leaders is more important than ever, specifically for employee... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

16 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

and Uber can scale up quickly thanks to affordable technology and networked providers. Credit: AntonMatveev To overcome those challenges, the startups followed similar strategies, initially focusing more on the supply side than on the... View Details

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

satisfaction, and performance evaluations. Understanding how fluctuations in stress impact these outcomes can help businesses come up with and initiate targeted solutions to reduce the likelihood of disruption, protect workforce health,... View Details

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

in front of direct reports to demonstrate competence and combat negative stereotypes about their abilities. But, these displays came at the expense of less visible office work that is critical to their businesses’ performance. Her research View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Financial Sector More Info The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Robin Greenwood & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen JUN 2018 In this NBER working paper, researchers from the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability View Details

30 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

product line. Everybody can understand it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Robert J. Dolan. “Then it got incredibly complicated.” In May, Peloton reported its biggest quarterly loss since its 2019 initial public View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

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Latin America - Global

strategies, as well as emphasizing the critical role of middle managers as "champions of change" with the right incentives. Effective communication was highlighted as essential to this ongoing process, and companies were urged to begin measuring and piloting reskilling... View Details

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Executive Education - Health Care

Executive Education Executive Education Expanding Thought Leadership in Health Care With virtual and in-person classrooms comprised of health care-executives from around the globe and led by world-renowned faculty, HBS offers a rich and... View Details

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MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS offers a rich portfolio of opportunities for MBA students to tailor their social enterprise engagement, including academics, careers, community, and paths for social entrepreneurship. Academics First-year students take courses that... View Details

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

processing. They examined each home’s sale price, number of days on the market, and initial price. Then, they screened for 3D virtual tours, which combine images and interactive features to simulate the experience of walking through a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard University. The... View Details

The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.

Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details

May 2017
Other Article

Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis

By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky

BACKGROUND: The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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07 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

coins and tokens—payments they often fail to disclose. Unfortunately for retail investors, following online crypto advice, especially from self-described “experts,” has the potential to bring significant financial losses, according to new... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

energetic body movements, varied tone, and pitch—and met with interpersonal benefits. However, these capture only a subset of passion expressions that are more common for extraverts. Indeed, in an initial dyadic study of supervisors and... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

Climate Action Plan . The School’s influence on sustainability and climate change extends well beyond campus boundaries. Faculty research related to environmental issues comprises nearly 1,000 cases and teaching materials currently available for use. The Business and... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful? By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims... View Details

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Fellowships - Business History

Fellowships Fellowships The Business History Initiative offers several fellowships and grants The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History This award honors the work and contributions of Thomas... View Details

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