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  • March 2025
  • Article

Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 07 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

intent on dominating, and who refuse to engage in problem solving. Skillful negotiation starts with having a clear sense of when to walk away, in order to avoid being browbeaten into accepting unreasonable... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

pricing.' The notion of a pivot is to make a change, and ideally, after you pivot, you have a new set of assumptions and hypotheses that you're going to test. And what we're... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • December 2018
  • Case

Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • June 10, 2021
  • Article

How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World

By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities
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  • 25 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

the NFL does simply from television contracts, those monies annually dwarf all the numbers you just mentioned, which include everything for baseball. Baseball may be bouncing back to some degree, but at the end of the day, it still suffers from View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

    By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
    This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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    • 05 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 5, 2016

    conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 1998 (Revised June 1998)
    • Case

    Coming to Grips with Deregulation: Bay State Gas

    In 1995, CEO Roger Young made a surprising decision to bring in Joel Singer, an outsider with an MBA, to lead Bay State through the upcoming turmoil of deregulation. Singer was convinced that in this situation where the boundaries of the industry were being defined,... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
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    Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    the publication of a book, the development of an MBA elective course on Business at the Base of the Pyramid, and the creation of an executive education program for leaders in the microfinance industry. Today, SEI continues to examine the... View Details
    • 18 Jul 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

    in this space across the board. There needs to be more transparency and not just transparency at the abstract level, but the technology needs to be made transparent for consumers in ways that they can understand. This is a View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
    • 17 Dec 2020
    • News

    Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

    challenges that emerged,” says Tim Dodson (MBA 1994), vice president of the club’s Leadership Breakfast Series. “Attendees were very interested in how an accelerator works and many said they were inspired by... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • September 2020
    • Case

    Uber at a Crossroads (2017)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Price; Profit; Revenue; Investment; Government Legislation; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Employment; Wages; Lawfulness; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Attitudes; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Transportation Networks; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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    • Fast Answer

    Suggested Resources: Israel - Hamas War

    text-decoration:underline">Anti-Defamation League (ADL) - Questions, Complexities and Context: Insights into Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ADL’s backgrounder exploring historical View Details
    • 08 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Applying to Business School as a Couple

    For Kate Kingen and Patrick Garrison applying to business school was a mutual decision – and coming to HBS was a journey they decided to embark on together.   Kate and Patrick... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Rohit Deshpande
    Customer Centricity Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high... View Details
    • Article

    Reliable Post hoc Explanations: Modeling Uncertainty in Explainability

    By: Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju
    As black box explanations are increasingly being employed to establish model credibility in high stakes settings, it is important to ensure that these explanations are accurate and reliable. However, prior work demonstrates that explanations generated by... View Details
    Keywords: Black Box Explanations; Bayesian Modeling; Decision Making; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology
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    • September 2016 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    SOHO China: Transformation in Progress

    By: Charles F. Wu
    In 2016, against the backdrop of a challenging Chinese macroeconomic environment, SOHO China, the largest owner and developer of Class-A real estate in Beijing and Shanghai, was struggling to convince analysts of the merits of its new “build-to-hold” strategy. Founded... View Details
    Keywords: China; REIT; Real Estate; Shared Office; Coworking; Public Company; NAV; Macroeconomics; Going Public; Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • 06 Sep 2022
    • Blog Post

    To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

    enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked... View Details