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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
cramming? Managers tend to adopt innovations in ways that make sense to their businesses. They know the markets their companies serve. Those markets appear large and measurable. The companies have established processes to help them... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
What is the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative? The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative applies innovative business practices and managerial disciplines to drive sustained, high-impact social change. It's grounded in the mission of Harvard... View Details
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and Leadership (CSML), an online, multi-course certificate program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Bridging the fields of business... View Details
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
as “anxious achievers.” To paraphrase Aarons-Mele, anxious achievers are those who deal with anxiety often associated with feelings of inadequacy by working harder to achieve more. Like other major academic institutions, the HBS campus is populated by faculty View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
W. Earl Sasser
Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
go through three phases, noting that it’s only in the midst of the negotiation itself that ethical blind spots appear. 1. Preparing for the negotiation: During this phase, negotiators are driven mostly by the idealistic “should self”—... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Building a zero-fee money transfer platform for African migrants. Feather Health Kirsten Soong (MBA 2022) Daniel Navarro Mariya Rivkin (MBA 2022) Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up An AI driven digital platform to help people with chronic... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
streams that track performance feedback and organizational culture; and analyses of digital trace data to map and shape organizational networks. “As managers and employees work through these challenges and tradeoffs, the potential gains... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
to propel innovation forward. They are needed to communicate with technical employees to provide mentorship. They are needed to run highly technical companies and ensure consumers obtain much needed... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings can rattle View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Chicago-based company with a half-dozen employees and venture investment from institutional funds and strategic angel investors. Murday says her post-HBS involvement with two alumni-focused Harvard View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among alternative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Highway: Technology and Mobility Trends and Opportunities Technological innovation is considered a competitive strength for America, but the nation does not score as high in deploying its technology. U.S. transportation systems are in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
was already close to the margin of exit. Restaurants with lower ratings are closer to the margin of exit at all observed minimum wage levels and are disproportionately driven out of business by increases to the minimum wage. Our point... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni
In the first step toward entrepreneurship, career seekers face a fundamental choice that affects every subsequent action: do you see yourself as a startup founder or joiner? The Path of the Founder Founders are typically driven by one of... View Details