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  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Clayton S. Rose

    Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • December 2008
    • Article

    Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?

    By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano
    Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
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    • September 2017
    • Case

    Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
    Inspired by research linking happiness and productivity, Hitachi had invested in developing new “people analytics” technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns.... View Details
    Keywords: People Analytics; Japan; Sociometers; Wearables; Interpersonal Communication; Human Resources; Happiness; Technology Industry; Japan
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    • Research Summary

    Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

    The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

    research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • November 2014 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef

    By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
    Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product—made entirely from muscle grown in his lab—to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Beef Production; Environmental Impacts Of Food Production; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Netherlands; United States; United Kingdom
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      Stephen A. Greyser

      Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

      Keywords: sports
      • Research Summary

      Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

      By: Rebecca M. Henderson

      Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

      • Web

      MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences | MBA

      management. To meet this need, the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program at Harvard University builds upon students’ existing biotech and life sciences knowledge and equips them with the latest business and scientific insights. This... View Details
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Mapping Organizational-Level Networks Using Individual-Level Connections: Evidence from Online Professional Networks

      By: Shelley Xin Li, Frank Nagle and Aner Zhou
      Organization-level networks facilitate the flow of information and business activities in the economy. Prior research relies solely on high-level connections to measure these networks. Therefore, to understand the role of employee connections at all job levels in... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Value; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Social Media
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      • Web

      Faculty & Research

      innovations from their implementation and use, neglecting the role of selection—how organizations choose which innovations to implement. Although scholars suggest scientific approaches for selecting novel technologies, there is limited... View Details
      • Web

      Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

      engaging with primary scientific literature. To enroll in the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program, candidates must apply to and be accepted by Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). To... View Details
      • 09 May 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

      classrooms, labs, dining halls, and elsewhere on campuses have a unique influence on the course of scientific research, according to the study, coauthored by Eamon Duede, a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • 2016
      • Article

      Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar

      By: Andrew J. Hoffman
      Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and political discourse. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Political Discourse; Public Engagement; Higher Education; Social Media
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      • 10 Jul 2023
      • In Practice

      The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

      generally refers to spiritual dryness, or profound loneliness and doubt. The best social science indicates that across the globe, our communities are becoming lonelier and less fulfilled. John of the Cross teaches how to find deep meaning... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 08 Feb 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

      • 13 Jan 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

      communications device or even a personal care product invokes deep thoughts and feelings about social bonding can be very helpful to R&D experts. In the case of a communications device, this suggests... View Details
      Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
      • Web

      Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

      1:30–2:15 p.m. EST Faculty Moderator: Kristin Mugford , Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Alumni Speakers: Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997) , CEO and President, BECU ;... View Details
      • 14 Nov 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

      individual employee relationships at 7,715 public US companies representing 19 industries. The researchers found that companies whose real-world employee connections put them at the center of their professional communities performed... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand