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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
    • Teaching Plan

    Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

    By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
    Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
    Keywords: Banks; Fintech; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Strategy; Technological Change; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurial Management; Intrapreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    1:30–2:15 p.m. EST Faculty Moderator: Kristin Mugford , Melvin Tukman Senior Lecturer of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Alumni Speakers: Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997) , CEO and President, BECU ;... View Details
    • November 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details
    Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networking; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; Communications Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
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    • June 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Steve Carpenter at Cake Financial

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was dissolved. Founded in 2006, the San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Internet; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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    Health-care Applications

    Active postmarketing drug surveillance.  There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

    • September 2007 (Revised March 2009)
    • Exercise

    Pitch Yourself!

    By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Michael I. Norton
    Helps students develop an elevator pitch for their most important asset—themselves. Before class students are asked to interview a potential employer and to develop preliminary elevator pitches. Once in class, students work through an exercise that helps them refine... View Details
    Keywords: Spoken Communication; Selection and Staffing; Job Interviews; Marketing; Personal Development and Career
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

    By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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    • April 1993 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Northern Telecom (B): The Norstar Launch

    By: Robert J. Dolan
    Northern Telecom has spent $50 million to develop a new family of telephone systems for small businesses. The investment proposal was justified on the basis of appreciable market share impact. Now, the project team must develop the appropriate supporting marketing... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Investment; Product Launch; Product Development; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; United States
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    • November 2022
    • Article

    A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups

    By: Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg and Sameer B. Srivastava
    When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining... View Details
    Keywords: Culture; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Symbolic Boundaries; Organizations; Boundaries; Social Psychology; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

    By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
    The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
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    • 09 Feb 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

    Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul
    • 02 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

    racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has hit communities of color hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative... View Details
    • November 1997 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
    Examines the choices Guidant must make in research and development spending and new product development. More specifically, CEO Jay Graf considers the payoffs and tradeoffs of using product development skills that he learned in CPI's core business when applied to a... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Business or Company Management; Management Skills; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Communication; Product Design; Market Design; Organizational Design; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 27 Nov 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

    Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera & Kelsey Jack
    • Web

    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara. 08 Nov 2024 Op-Ed How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber Africa faces escalating climate risks that threaten its people and businesses. While governments and View Details
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    Senior Executive Leadership Program—Middle East

    deliver value to customers Lead authentically and ethically at all levels and foster a culture of accountability across the organization Build confidence in yourself as a leader, decision-maker, and negotiator Develop enduring bonds with... View Details
    • 19 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

    successfully increase immigrants' political participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53575 November 28, 2017 athenaInsight... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 09 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

    development (R&D), making the finding relevant for leaders of research-intensive organizations trying to calibrate hybrid work policies. To be sure, remote work can reduce office space costs for companies and provide employees with... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
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    Employment | Harvard Business School

    Employment Join our diverse team of inspiring professionals whose work is centered around our commitment to educate future leaders. View Jobs 1,761 Staff Positions 233 Faculty Positions (Full-Time Equivalent) Staff Positions Over 15 departments form a diverse View Details