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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing Space shuttle Influence: Medium-High 90 1990 s Boom in connectivity Cloning,... View Details

01 May 2020
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Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

SUMMING UP Is Management the Missing Ingredient in Melding Organization Culture and Remote Work? Those who have experienced remote work are largely vocal supporters of the notion. Its success is dependent, on the one hand, on an effective... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation — Unless We Educate Them

1. Problem definition: Accuracy isn't everything. In many contexts, high or low sensitivity is more important than overall correctness — and yet, we find that humans prefer accurate algorithms, even to their detriment. Specifically, we identify and address an... View Details

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Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details

Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a View Details

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

when firms are doing market testing and thinking about how price decisions will affect different types of consumers, including those who actually show up in the store. Gourville: I also understand why View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

This blog is a repost from the HBS Recruiting blog. An engineer by training, Stan Chang, MS/MBA 2020 candidate in the SEAS/HBS joint degree program, came to Harvard to “balance a business curriculum with an advanced engineering education. When I saw the curriculum here... View Details

Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the production of U.S. Steel corporate publications. Writers, editors, and designers worked on the selection and placement of illustrations in a wide range of corporate... View Details

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

For more than ten years, I have studied digital strategy and worked with scores of companies around the world on their digital transformation. I have seen first-hand what works and what doesn't. Here are a... View Details

03 Dec 2014
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Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Summing Up Can the Brilliance of the "Jerk" Be Tapped? The best business problem cases are those that divide a class into groups making two or more persuasive arguments. The questions of whether or not and how to make... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

Foundation Professor of Service Management Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Toward a Life Well Lived

“The course is a laboratory for us to innovate,” Perlow observes. “It is constantly evolving, like life itself.” She adds that even its design was novel compared to the traditional, multistep process of developing new courses at HBS. In... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

About EcoWorldDevelopment of EcoWorld began in 2016 by Indian real estate firm RMZ to accommodate Bangalore’s increasing need for office space, particularly for tech firms. Accordingly, the development was designed to be a... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision

launched, Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) and the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). What is their focus, View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by oil companies... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

Information Technology | Harvard Business School

Information Technology AI Enhanced Learning: HBS IT and Faculty Collaborate on Research Navigator Bot Professor of Management Practice Joseph B. Fuller and HBS IT's Instructional View Details