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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

School Working Paper, No. 25-063, June 2025. Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs By: Kyle Myers , Lauren Lanahan and Evan E. Johnson 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Small businesses... View Details

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

those small companies accounted for over 22 percent of all industrial R&D spending, while the largest companies' share of spending declined to just over 40 percent. These data reflect the changing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2024
Book

Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

Business leaders face a wide variety of difficult decisions: whether their companies should stay small or go big, whether layoffs are necessary for survival, whether a proposed partnership is a good idea or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

peers who span functions, industries, and countries Take advantage of resources for lifelong learning as a member of the global HBS alumni community Who Should Attend Senior executives, senior functional leaders, or general managers leading successful, established... View Details

Benson P. Shapiro

Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details

02 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success – Part 2

Conversations, you can reserve one of our office’s video conference rooms. Or, use your preferred web based video conference tool and we can reserve small rooms on campus for students if they need a quiet space. For public View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

“are not a bunch of weirdos. They look and act just like investors in traditional asset markets.” Understanding this market is increasingly important. Cryptocurrencies’ global value has boomed to a market capitalization of $3 trillion in 2021—still View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

30 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

GitHub is one of the major platforms where developers can collaborate and create. And, how to structure incentives is an important area of research beyond information technology, with companies big and small... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

health," one health advocate said. Consisting of a small barrel-shaped design that mimics an actual cigarette, the devices vaporize a liquid nicotine solution, which is then inhaled without the tar and carcinogens found in smoke.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

are here to partner with technology companies to help you foster connections with HBS students and meet your hiring goals. The key message they want to get across: “No matter how big or small your recruiting... View Details

Keywords: Technology

23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Keywords: by Ufuk Akcigit & William R. Kerr; Technology

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

"levels" for publicly traded corporations according to how protected small investors were: level 1, level 2, and the highest level, New Market. Today, most of the IPOs are for companies that are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

$8 billion. Proponents of the proposed rule argue that it would prevent companies from having to consider frivolous proposals from small investors who don’t have much stake in a company’s success. After all,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November, 2016
Article

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

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05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

supply-chain investments to make it possible for the small farmer to produce good-quality milk, transport it, and sell it to the company. This makes sense for the company because it needs fresh, locally... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

ecosystem and the levers at its disposal. As a relatively small petrochemical user, a company like LEGO Group should combine its efforts in its own operations while simultaneously pushing for upstream... View Details

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

the leading firm would be costly and could lead to both companies charging less, explains MacKay. One surprise finding of the research was that firms with inferior pricing technology also benefit from this arrangement, so investments in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

longtime workers will balk at learning these new skills and end up quitting, causing the company to lose hundreds of years of cumulative experience. The CEO is now unsure of how to proceed. August 2025 Article Revenue Collapses and the... View Details

July 2012
Case

Revenue Solutions, LLC

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Ari Wasserman and Nick Esayian were both dissatisfied with their future prospects in their current careers. Wasserman, who managed an infomercial business for a direct response consumer marketing company, wanted more flexibility and ownership. Esayian was the CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Partners and Partnerships; Small Business; Israel; United States