• 24 Jun 2019
• Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Noa Torok, MBA 2019, came to HBS with a blank slate. “I arrived with zero expectations,” she says. “I had no idea what I wanted to do.” Her prior experience had shown her the opposite – what she did not want... View Details

• 16 Sep 2015
• News

Rethink pricing to create shared—and expanded—value

John T. Gourville, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, advocates that value be shared by a firm and its customers. “Without a willing customer, there is no value,” he says. “When companies view customers as... View Details

• 22 Jul 2022
• News

Harvard study: Knowledge workers can’t stop reading and replying to emails while they drive

• 27 May 2015
• Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

• November 15, 2021
• Article

Putting Your Corporate Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly

Making a company purpose come to life is an arduous journey that requires a multi-pronged and sustained approach. Yet as hard as it is, the journey is well worth it and will yield positive transformation not only for the company, but also for the people who work there.... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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• 18 Oct 2018
• News

What Employers Want: How to Bridge the Gap Between Employer Expectations and Employee Qualifications

• 27 Jul 2016
• News

The 27 best health and science books to read this summer

• June 2013
• Teaching Note

Dragonfly Corporation

By: Jim Sharpe and Michael Norris

This is the teaching note to HBS Case 813042. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurial Management; Turnarounds; Bankruptcy; Bank Loan; Crisis Management; Family Business; Retail Trade; Financial Crisis; Financial Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Retail Industry; United States

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• 21 May 2018
• News

Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society

• July 2022
• Case

Bringing Ideas to Life: The Story of Paul English

By: Youngme Moon, Frances X. Frei and F. Katelynn Boland

Paul English is one of the most imaginative innovators of his generation. This case explores his process of creative idea generation. The case includes an exercise for students to generate value-creating ideas from scratch. View Details

Keywords: Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Idea Generation; Founder; Startup; Imagination; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Creativity; Value Creation

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Moon, Youngme, Frances X. Frei, and F. Katelynn Boland. "Bringing Ideas to Life: The Story of Paul English." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 322-709, July 2022. (Click here to access this case.)

• 11 Jun 2015
• News

Focusing On Women's Advancement Blinds Companies To Their Real Problem: Overworking Everyone

• 22 Mar 2021
• Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

about speaking up at work, incidents in which catastrophe is narrowly averted rise to the surface, spurring important growth and systems improvement. “People don't pay enough attention, especially in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

• 22 Feb 2024
• Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

There’s a virtual elephant in AI’s room: It’s nearly impossible to make the technology forget. And there are an increasing number of scenarios where consumers and programmers may not only want to remove data... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

• September 19, 2017
• Article

After Equifax Breach, Companies Advised to Review Open-Source Software Code

By: Ben DiPietro and Lou Shipley

It doesn’t make much sense: At a time when high-powered automated trading systems can execute stock sales in real time, some companies that rely on open-source software to help to run their businesses track their open-source use on spread sheets on paper.
Lou... View Details

Keywords: Software; Open-source; Security Vulnerabilities; Data Privacy; Hack; Applications and Software; Safety; Cybersecurity

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