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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
for every dimension of business performance Identify and manage risks that could derail strategy execution Empower employees through proprietary frameworks like the Job Design Optimization Tool, which helps... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Recent high-profile financial meltdowns at Bitcoin, Celsius, and Terraform Labs, which together wiped out hundreds of billions in market value, helped trigger a flight from the cryptocurrency market, driving its value from $2.9 trillion... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
is all about taking small steps in the right direction, not pretending to be perfect, just being honest, doing the right thing, a very simple message. Any positive initiative is better than no action at all. Any small step you make for... View Details
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
have little fear of authority. As a result, they are often not a good bet for long-term employment, because they are quite willing to seek other employment (or no employment) rather than remain in a job in which they are not growing. They... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
Patent Trolls
We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors.... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?
By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta
Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web Sites; South Korea
Iyengar, Raghuram, Sangman Han, and Sunil Gupta. "Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-123, April 2009.
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
ever work.'" On the flipside, research has found that entering negotiations with a positive attitude tends to lead to better outcomes—when both sides are agreeable and conciliatory, it builds a level of... View Details
- 21 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE Mean to You?
dance partners, my dinner dates, my chosen family. I have made my best friends through PRIDE, and it is one of the biggest reasons I have had such a positive experience at HBS. I became Co-President to give... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
company to create better jobs,” shared Ari Medoff. “We’ve had 30 or 40 years now of growing wage inequality and we have community institutions that have decayed. I think that one of the core factors is the erosion of View Details
- January 2016
- Case
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Haiti
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
- 13 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
A View from the Horizon
like me in a position like that. I remember him as such a commanding presence, in both stature and demeanor. He expected a lot and accepted no excuses. I quickly went from... View Details
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
not to recall pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in 2009; and when asked whether he served several months at Riker’s Island in 2010, he answered, “I don’t know.” Similarly, in a 2007 Senate hearing to investigate his role... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
cites as the fund's "most valuable asset" - its reputation for ethical and honorable behavior. "For me," she says with characteristic decisiveness, "this job is perfect." View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business
his family's insurance company, one of the largest African American owned businesses in Atlanta. H. Naylor Fitzhugh served as an influential professor at Howard University and assumed a senior executive View Details
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Career Resources | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Social Enterprise Initiative has compiled the information below as a guide to those embarking upon a social enterprise job search. Initiative staff members are also available for individual meetings with current HBS students View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
problems. Positioning your service or product as “AI for health care” or “AI for sales” is not nearly specific enough. While you can sell AI tools to data science teams or IT departments, business leaders want to know you understand their... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
valence." Common wisdom says that the best way to overcome anxiety is to calm yourself down, creating an emotion with low arousal and positive valence. But enacting a transformation across two axes at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone has to take initiative to give a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent... View Details
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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910
“Posting” Brand Name Management A Marketing Revolution “Advertising is a distinct art, as much so as the art of coal mining or of engine building,” noted copywriter and author Nathaniel C. Fowler wrote in 1889. 1 Fowler was referring to... View Details