Open Source Distribution - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

worker shared a trick for keeping track of information customers share at the beginning of calls, reducing a source of stress. Another advised a colleague not to “unbundle” the price of features when presenting customers with potential... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

academic partner of the OneTen Initiative, which seeks to create 1 million living-wage jobs over 10 years for Black and underrepresented minority women and men who do not have a college education. If you believe, as I do, that talent is more evenly View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
News

Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

the board, the Dean, and the faculty is very open and candid. It's clear to me, and to all members of the board, that our ideas and challenges are valued and that they do make a difference." It is this easy interaction that fosters the... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

example of sales-related hyperbole, Cespedes points to the dire predictions that online buying will eventually cause the real-life “death of a salesman.” While online information sources affect selling, retail sales through ecommerce... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Baker Library, Harvard Business School (olvwork355024). Russell Aikins. Charging molten pig iron into open hearth, South Chicago Works, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, 1932. Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Baker Library,... View Details

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

the HBSGrid) as follows: Open a terminal on the HBSGrid and run wget https://stat.ethz.ch/R/daily/R-devel.tar.gz tar xvf R-devel.tar.gz cd R-devel to download and extract the R source code. Create a... View Details

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Judges - Alumni

Prior to Now, she co-founded Nourish, a patented children's product that was distributed through traditional and online retail channels. Lara Co-Authored the best selling book, "Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding your Business... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

they need to succeed by reviewing these tips and implementing what works for you and your company. Remote Work Management Practices: Weekly 1:1 meetings with your direct reports by video call Weekly group video calls with teams Optional social time for employees to... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

partner, and doubling up on the friendships and memories. Never could we have imagined a Texas guy and California gal surviving four east coast winters. We have given up planning and stayed open to the doors God opens, following our love... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Gaining the community's trust is vital to building a successful business with crowdsourcing, agreed business leaders at the Digital Initiative Summit at Harvard Business School on March 30. When Tongal got its start in 2009, some members of the community questioned... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

are willing to take some risks, disclose some of their shortcomings, and open themselves to constructive criticism—admittedly a tall order. Choosing The Right Position Establishing a management career begins with choosing the right... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

with Karim Lakhani in 2022. Maria P. Roche : Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub”... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

net-zero emissions by 2040. In the interim, we are targeting absolute GHG reductions of more than 40 percent by 2030. From the way we source our crops to the energy we use in creating and distributing our... View Details

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not accustomed to providing end-of-life care became the primary View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

learning to come up with a communication strategy targeting different segments.” We drafted a booklet that answered a lot of challenging questions about what it means to be gay, and the administration agreed to produce 1,000 of them. They were View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2012
Working Paper

The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel

Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect intellectual property (IP). We... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Value; Complexity; Intellectual Property

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05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

team forever. 3. Long-term need vs. short-term fix Another common mistake is hiring a full-time expert in an area that only needs occasional work—for example, performance engineering. Certainly, if you’re building a complex distributed... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market to View Details