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- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
upon a couple years ago was that we really need to try to get some of this other action back into the game. And then the other piece of it is that game times have dramatically increased over the last really,... View Details
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Preparing to Teach - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
takes place on multiple levels. First-time case instructors typically devote time to learning about the core principles of participant-centered learning. They also reflect on the ways in which their academic View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
which required U.S. patent applications be published 18 months after their filing date rather than at patent grant, on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find that post-AIPA, U.S. patent applications are... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
internet, especially in high-tech clusters—geographic regions where skilled worker wages increased faster than in the rest of the country. To chart the rise and fall of IT salaries, the researchers examined 142 of the largest urban areas... View Details
- Profile
Mark Giragosian
than in other schools I’ve visited,” says Mark. “I can choose my priorities: I can go home for lunch, participate in various activities on campus, go to Bible study with my wife, and spend time with my... View Details
- August 2001
- Case
Charmed Technology
By: Youngme E. Moon
Charmed Technology, a California start-up known primarily for its high-profile fashion shows featuring "wearable" computers, has just released its first product. The "CharmIT" is being billed as the world's first affordable, wearable computer for consumers. The key... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Luxury; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Fashion Industry
Moon, Youngme E. "Charmed Technology." Harvard Business School Case 502-012, August 2001.
- July 2024
- Case
ZEISS: Commercializing Science
By: Maria P. Roche, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Karl Lamprecht, President and CEO of the ZEISS AG Group, mused on how far ZEISS had come in 175 years of being a pioneer in optics, and how the course he had charted since taking the helm of the company could keep it on track. In his role, he oversaw the four core... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Organization; Decisions; Business Strategy; Competition; Business History; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Organizational Culture; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Commercialization; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Germany; Europe
Roche, Maria P., Carlota Moniz, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "ZEISS: Commercializing Science." Harvard Business School Case 725-359, July 2024.
- 2021
- Book
Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details
Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy
Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 07 Dec 2023
- Webinars: Career
Considering Retirement
"So you're actually thinking about retiring?!"
Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
experience with 96 participants on a wall of video screens interacting with a faculty member in the Live Online Classroom studio. Because of its success, this virtual learning mode has replaced one of the on-campus modules, which shortens the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- September–October 2021
- Article
Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm
By: Alvin J. Silk, Birger Wernerfelt and Shuyi Yu
In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies.... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Specialization; Theory Of The Firm; Advertising Agencies; Advertising; Organizational Structure; Theory
Silk, Alvin J., Birger Wernerfelt, and Shuyi Yu. "Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm." Marketing Science 40, no. 5 (September–October 2021): 946–963.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Monitoring Public Procurement: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile
By: Maria Paula Gerardino, Stephan Litschig and Dina D. Pomeranz
The government is the biggest buyer in the economy of most countries. At the same time, the public procurement process if often thought to be fraught with corruption and malpractice. However, there is little evidence regarding the impact of audits aimed at reducing... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
(iStockphoto/Rawpixel) The subject of power has a certain intoxicating aura about it. Maybe that’s why I studied and wrote about interorganizational power in channels of distribution while teaching courses in marketing too long ago. The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2022
- Chapter
A Compass for Decision Making
By: Lynn S. Paine
Book Abstract: The second edition of Responsible Leadership offers orienting knowledge on how to lead in a world of contested values—a world where leadership work extends beyond leaders and direct reports to a whole range of stakeholders inside and outside an... View Details
Paine, Lynn S. "A Compass for Decision Making." Chap. 9 in Responsible Leadership. 2nd edition, edited by Nicola Pless and Thomas Maak, 154–167. London: Routledge, 2022.
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
like-minded people to spend less time commuting to and from work and more time discussing innovative new ideas with one another. Plus, she notes,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Reset: How the Shift to Skills-Based Hiring Holds the Keys to Growing the U.S. Workforce at a Time of Talent Shortage , Report, The Burning Glass Institute, 2022. With Christina Langer, Julia Nitschke, Layla O’Kane, Matthew Sigelman,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy
By: Doug J. Chung, Ho Kim and Reo Song
This paper explores the multiple and comprehensive effects of a digital paywall sales strategy, an increasingly common means of go-to-market for media firms. Specifically, we examine the effects of a digital paywall on a media firm’s two sources of income—subscription... View Details
Keywords: Digital Paywall; Demand Substitution; Spillover Effect; Synthetic Control; Sales; Strategy; Media; Newspapers; Publishing Industry
Chung, Doug J., Ho Kim, and Reo Song. "The Comprehensive Effects of a Digital Paywall Sales Strategy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-118, May 2019.
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A Commitment to Sustainability | About
CY 2023 Our Commitment Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to Harvard’s Sustainability Action Plan and the University’s mission to accelerate the adoption of systems and practices that protect the... View Details