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14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

post-doctoral researcher Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew Kun of the University of New Hampshire, and Orit Shaer of Wellesley College. Work vs. personal multitasking Numerous studies have been conducted over the years, including some by HBS researchers, about the driving... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

04 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Middle East & North Africa Club

representing those diverse cultures and promoting them on campus. We aim to foster a better understanding of an often misunderstood part of the world through social, educational, and cultural events, and to provide a voice for MENA members on campus. How do you hope... View Details

21 Nov 2022
Blog Post

HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

climate but also for those who want to learn about how this almost existential topic affects all of our lives and careers going forward. We hope to achieve this by creating spaces for continued conversations after heated case discussions about sustainability, for... View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

rate as must-do's entirely on your own, Andrus says. "After I go through this process myself, I go see my boss to make sure I'm aligned with him and with his stakeholders. You have to learn to be open and to listen to how your boss reacts to your analysis. By... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

is a fundamental building block of everyday technologies. The increasing importance of FOSS throughout the economy became critically apparent in 2014 when the Heartbleed security bug in the OpenSSL cryptography library was discovered. By some estimates, the bug View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments. The model relaxes the IPS property and allows a wider variety of results to be analyzed when studying the effects of different marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2007
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How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on performance is a myth, or at least only a half-truth. 30 years ago, in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

their background and expertise to improving education? A: It's a good question. Given the impact businesspeople have in society, it is crucial that they understand the root causes of why schools have struggled so much and why so many... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean the death of a company, and in fact, it can actually be the very thing that saves a business, assuming the courts can handle the flood that is likely coming. Dina Gerdeman: What impact do you expect... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

Area meant that I could choose what to eat, where to sleep, and what to buy. Being at HBS now means that I can choose how I make an impact the world. I do not take this responsibility lightly as I finish three years as a joint degree... View Details

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

with outstanding impact in the nonprofit and healthcare sectors before enrolling at HBS. As another way to grow the pool of Black talent interacting with HBS and with business more broadly, HBS Online has committed to create highly... View Details

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

been adopted by more than 190,000 organizations around the world by 2020. To understand the impact of OHSAS 18001, the researchers obtained the cooperation of several global certification companies to access that data, and combined that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details

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The Exercise and Development of Leadership

My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

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The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

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THEME #1: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH TEAM FAMILIARITY

Are organizational capabilities simply the aggregation of individual skills and experience, or do they also depend on particular connections between individuals developed through prior work experience? Since a capability consists of the accumulated... View Details

September 2024
Case

InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility

By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken

Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details

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January 2020
Case

A Tough Call: SEAL Team Leader in Kandahar (A)

By: George A. Riedel

The case, which is a disguised version of real events, is set in Kandahar, Afghanistan (2013) during the long running Afghan war. Lt. Paul Rickson, a Navy SEAL Platoon Commander, is leading a team of 30 U.S. and Afghan soldiers on a mission to clear hostile forces in... View Details

Keywords: War; Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Decision Choices and Conditions; Afghanistan

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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States

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Body Shop International

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Describes the start-up and rapid growth of a company whose founder holds strong, non-traditional beliefs about the role of the corporation and its responsibility to society. After profiling Anita Roddick as a person, the case describes the anti-mainstream approach she... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Management Teams; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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