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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
in common? Why do their extraordinary stories continue to amaze and inspire? In delivering the answers to those questions, I offer a remarkable template by which to judge those in our own time to whom the public has given its trust. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
to are probability forecasts, outlining the likelihood of the storm going in one direction versus another. In economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia coordinates probability and point forecasts for predicted growth in gross... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
2020. “We told them all, there’s no issue, you’re all going to be working now through year-end. No layoffs, no nothing,” Moynihan said. Citi and Wells Fargo communicated similar messages to their employees. Marc Benioff, CEO of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
Hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
On the face of it, social marketing is a cinch. Here's one scenario. You as a marketer want people who are living in poverty to take better care of their health. So, given your profession, what do you do? You can persuade them—through View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
one student’s comment that “This is going to change the way I view my entire career.” Moments of insight like this are happening now at HBS and, Weiss observes, “There’s a role for the School and its faculty to play in helping members of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- Portrait Project
Srivatsa Krishna
all for only one higher purpose and that is to better the lot of others, who do not have this opportunity. Further, bringing about enduring change through benevolent and transformational leadership in the public space is infinitely more... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
allowing them to weigh in on every message a brand posts—all for plenty of public eyes to see. Inappropriate messaging Cheerios attempted to express sympathy after Prince died, but its “Rest in peace” tweet received a vicious... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship
process better.” Yet the possibilities for state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
In the spring of 2005, media outlets from Gizmodo to Good Morning America were buzzing about Clocky, an alarm clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping, forcing its owner to get out of bed to turn it off and stop the cacophony. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally borrowed from a similar group at Stanford, would evolve over time;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
gangs, set up johns, or them-selves are victims of gang violence,” says Timken. He photographs and questions them, to gather intelligence, he says, on “who’s who in the zoo.” After exchanging some ribald pleasantries, he tells them to go... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurship for Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2009). Josh Lerner : Elected a Fellow of the European... View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
how should they go to market? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 419-011 Hironobu Tsujiguchi and His Sweet Revolution Hironobu Tsujiguchi, a Japanese chocolatier, had chosen an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman