experience economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

2003. He is now active mentoring young entrepreneurs, investing in companies, and painting. The interview is part of the Creating Emerging Markets series sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, in which business leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

to best negotiate in an uncertain environment? Michael Wheeler advises looking to military science for winning strategies. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

capitalism in Russia and the government's central role in business. A brief history of Russia's economic policy and business conditions since 2000 is given. The growth of Russia's economy and the fiscal surpluses resulting from high oil... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Government, and the International Economy class on the monetary crisis in Argentina, and then I roasted coffee beans and worked on the site in the afternoon,” recalls Han about a recent Tuesday. While she misses her sectionmates and... View Details

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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

adopt the role of studying the dynamics, challenges, and opportunities of the private sector from afar. SECON gives students an opportunity to tangibly affect the conversation, trends, and insights in an part of the economy that has a... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a... View Details

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony-indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and incentives in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

research plus their own wealth of practical and academic experience to examine the unique challenges of leadership in professional service firms. The result of what may be the first-ever collaboration between an HBS faculty author and a... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Facebook. Enron's Lessons for Managers Published: July 12, 2004 Like the Challenger space shuttle disaster was a learning experience for engineers, so too is the Enron crash for managers, says Harvard Business School professor Malcolm S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

of family-owned and-managed firms. It may sound a simplistic conclusion that there has never been "one best way" of achieving business success. However, this historical experience stands as a powerful corrective to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Dec 2022
News

Contributing to a Better Future

Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer survey to understand how people... View Details

Keywords: April White

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

In 2020, our faculty published 14 books that dive into their research and pull from their professional experiences on topics including the future of capitalism, managing time, how AI is transforming work, the power of experiments, a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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An Emerging Entrepreneur | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

provide high-quality, relevant education and training in interpersonal skills to students who may not have planned to go to college,” says Bichara. “We want to prepare them to understand and play an important role in the 21st-century View Details

23 May 2019
News

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Group invests in Bluemercury 2012 M-61 skincare launched 2014 Appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence, HBS 2015 Lune+Aster cosmetics launched 2015 Macy’s acquires Bluemercury 2019 Bluemercury opens its 195th store CEO and Cofounder Bluemercury, Inc. Marla Beck believed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

holds the "monopoly position" in the world marketplace it once enjoyed. "Students come here to learn, but they also have a responsibility to teach," he observes. "They have been admitted to HBS on the basis of their unique experiences -... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

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