Publications

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

July 2008
Course Overview Note

The Devil Wears Prada (HBS Version) (TN)

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence

The Devil Wears Prada is used to facilitate a discussion of the role of communities in people's lives. It is used in a second year MBA elective at HBS called Building a Business in the Context of a Life (BBCL). BBCL is primarily designed for students who plan to be... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Civil Society or Community; Organizational Culture; Power and Influence

24 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Elevating Women at HBS: Signature Initiatives of the Women’s Student Association

of women leaders. To do this effectively, the WSA offers a series of signature initiatives that keep current WSA members and alumni engaged for life. This engagement while at... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

increased more than 45 percent to $105,000 in his first full year of ownership. The following year, sales were up another third to $140,000. The... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

October 2022
Case

Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Chiu and Joyce Kim

Colette Phillips’ marketing firm had just won the City of Boston’s 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Get Konnected!, the networking organization for people of color that she founded 15 years earlier and led to... View Details

21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

Career Coach for his 40 years of experience in consulting. He is formerly a Senior Partner in the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP,... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

Business Statesman of the Year Dinner, which Mott describes as “the one we want the walls busted out for.” The... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

01 Mar 2023
News

Turning Point: In Good Company

around the world, and perhaps most important, signed up for an undergraduate creative writing class across the river. It gave me the space for self-expression that I needed.... View Details

Keywords: bipolar disorder; mental health; wellness; HBS community

2006
Article

Measuring the Effect of Multimarket Contact on Competition: Evidence from Mergers Following Radio Broadcast Ownership Deregulation

By: Joel Waldfogel and Julie Wulf

This paper examines the effects of multimarket contact on advertising prices in the U.S. radio broadcasting industry. While it is in general difficult to measure the effect of multimarket contact on competition, the 1996 Telecommunications Act substantially relaxed... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Communications; Markets; Geographic Location; Advertising; Ownership; Price; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States

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04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

visionary investors—he says that in the next few years, he may have a practical way to pull billions of tons of carbon out View Details

January 2014
Case

The Weather Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; Strategic Change; Change Management; Expansion; Weather; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry

May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
Case

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia

In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Family Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; Alabama