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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was well ahead of its original plan to release four portals in 2007, Michel still faced a number of challenges. He had learned a great deal from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration
- 31 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change
were less likely to appoint a Black teammate to a leadership position, compared with those who weren’t exposed to this research. Those hearing the business case were also less likely to agree that racially diverse teams perform better. In... View Details
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and fellow researchers compared the outcomes of flexible work arrangements at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The team found that employees with liberal “work from... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
cultural change and provides a playbook to help leaders hire productive employees, organize around teams and values, and lead by inclusion. In a nod to the times, he devotes space to tips for creating and maintaining culture in remote... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
of experimentation. Taking all these factors into account, a startup can create dozens of ads within just a few days, and learn quickly and cheaply what is most effective to attract suppliers. Uber, for instance, made extensive use of... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
pandemic travel restrictions, the program pivoted to focus on US challenges and opportunities, taking more than 1,000 students to one of 15 domestic locations. With a lens on the course’s three modules—contextual intelligence, team... View Details
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
control, questionable organizational (particularly human resource management) practices, and human behavior traits in general. As “Former Employee” put it, “much of the language in the Visions and Values about caring for team members and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)
both the mentees and me to learn from each other! What impact has HBS had on your career? The value of my HBS MBA is mainly the personal growth it allowed me to have (and it was gigantic!). The biggest impact HBS had on me was to greatly... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Every firm has two strategies, we learn early on in the pages of One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. "Explicit" strategy is the one you read about in your company's planning memos and PowerPoint slides.... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
specialists—an "operating team" that is an order of magnitude larger than that of any other VC firm. Furthermore, the operating team aims to not only assist a16z portfolio companies, but also to be broadly helpful to all parties in the... View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Summer Health: Raising an AI-First Company?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Sarah Mehta and Maxim Pike Harrell
In October 2023, Summer Health CEO Ellen DaSilva arrived at a defining juncture for her pediatric telehealth startup. Founded in 2021, Summer Health offered parents rapid access to licensed pediatricians via text message. DaSilva, an experienced telehealth executive,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Sarah Mehta, and Maxim Pike Harrell. "Summer Health: Raising an AI-First Company?" Harvard Business School Case 825-083, January 2025.
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Mike Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and his team and spent two years at Bloomberg Philanthropies on the Government Innovation team, where he helped mayors and cities drive innovation. Matt returned to HBS in 2014 to take the helm of the HBS Social... View Details
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
work actually means, which could lead to unhappy workers and frustrated managers. “As an organization, it’s not enough to just hire people for passion. Leaders also need to learn how to manage for passion.” An analysis of 200 million job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
leading in the digital world, as well as elective courses, so that participants can tailor their learning to their professional needs. It concludes with a capstone project where participants can apply their learning. HBS Online Press... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
learn German work practices. The fewest "us and them" issues occurred among a team of 24 members split between Germany and India who were working on a data standardization project. Neither the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
one with a PhD. and unbridled curiosity. With Jack Welch, one experienced an idea a minute. Some hit home, some didn’t. He and his team tried a lot of things—many of them were ideas developed elsewhere—and presumably kept most of what... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales
remains white-hot despite high interest rates. “Maybe it doesn't help you to get a 5 percent sales price rise by using visual tools—but it might help sellers in many other ways,” Troncoso says. Virtual reality for house hunting To parse selling behavior, the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
Baker Foundation Professor, examines what business leaders can learn from Peloton’s journey in his case study, Peloton Interactive, Inc.: Creating the Immersive Connected-Fitness Category. The main takeaway: The company could have avoided... View Details
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
other people?" “How do all of these lessons about working hard potentially carry over to our beliefs about other people?” asks Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, who co-authored the study. “If you are View Details