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- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
outcry from users, legislators, and the general public, to force the company to do a better job of protecting private information. In an initial response, Facebook informed its blog readers that it had suspended the consultancy from the site and suspended such data... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
Audubon movement specifically. "The Audubon movement is interesting in that it is actually a range of different types of organizations who share the mission of protecting birds and the environment through advocacy, education, and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
could do much better. The unit manager didn’t share that sense of urgency so didn’t organize the senior team around fixing the issues—training for that unit wasn’t going to stick. “The overall argument [we make] is that the system of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
Types. Field research shows that anyone with normal intelligence is capable of doing some degree of creative work. Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity from using the software by as much as 100 percent, when compared with free-riding competitors. "Companies that contribute and give back learn how to better use the open source software in their own environment" The reason for that benefit lies in... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few... View Details
- Web
Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online
School’s signature case method. Business leaders will share challenges they’ve faced. As the story unfolds, you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem... View Details
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
promote greater flexibility in work arrangements, such as working remotely.” POLL Does your commute affect your workday? We asked Working Knowledge readers how they manage their comments. Here's what they said. View poll results The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
curate and share knowledge between the corporate and academic worlds better, so that managers don’t have to decipher the ever-expanding corpus of journal articles, Krieger says. “Managers need more than just... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
equity and inclusion in business and society. Here, current HBS students share their personal stories about what being first-generation, low-income (FGLI) means to them through a storyboard series organized by Student Association in... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical Errors and Patient Safety at Harvard University, which... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
to do now, and to have any hope of doing that, we need to be integrating the specialized domain knowledge that managers possess into these tools and systems.” Marketers have long envisioned the potential for technology to bring about a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
in February, which helped it operate in the critical weeks of March with limited problems. Third, by continuously and effectively sharing the learnings emerging from the Chinese subsidiary when the knowledge... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
Stern kept the curriculum very updated and had students share presentations on broader health care topics before each case discussion. Since I was planning on switching from the medical product to the health care delivery space, I was... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details
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Wells, John R., Carole A. Winkler, and Benjamin Weinstock. "Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World." Harvard Business School Case 720-373, September 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
position: the chief experience officer or CXO." A knowledge of customer experiences can be invaluable in the design and distribution of a product or service. We were convinced of that by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their influential... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
analytical knowledge to more of what we call "doing" (skills) and "being" (a sense of purpose and identity) must occur. Business schools need to think innovatively about how best to use the resources available to them. For example, there... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Chapter 11 doesn’t give companies a free pass, however. Cases... View Details