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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
acclimate to. Trey Ford (TF): Just apply. Harvard knows a thing or two about education; skeptics are welcome. Fair warning: coordinate with those in your professional and personal circles and be ready-the program will require your full... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
always the wrong thing to do, Gilbert noted, because your project may one day become the core business. GE, once a maker of appliances, now derives 60 percent of its revenue... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
recent regulations imposed on the industry. But given the amorphous nature of some of the trends you document, do you think these will be effective? Mark Bradshaw: The entire function View Details
- July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command
By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how... View Details
Keywords: James Geurts; Innovation; Public Entrepreneurship; Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Contests; Prototyping; SOFWERX; Special Operations; SOCOM; Govtech; Procurement; FAR; EZ-Fly; Navy; Department Of Defense; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Acquisition; Public Administration Industry; United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo
about (again, see above). As part of my recruiting, I was able to meet on campus with Conor Walsh, Duolingo PM and MBA 2018. Conor gave me context on what it was like to work at Duolingo as well as on the role View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
The US government set out to support consumers and jolt the economy when it issued federal stimulus checks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But actually, that money helped propel questionable investments in “meme stocks,”... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
problems, such as the adequacy of the public health system, disparities in access to health care, availability of emergency child care, universal broadband and Internet access,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job
employees up for success by designing an internal interview guide for conversations, and creating a 90-day plan laid out in three 30-day increments to meet key objectives and goals,” explains Spielman. The important thing to remember as a... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- July – September 2003
- Article
The Brave New World of Wireless Web
By: Ranjay Gulati and Alex Panas
Keywords: Internet and the Web
Gulati, Ranjay, and Alex Panas. "The Brave New World of Wireless Web." Smart Manager (July–September 2003).
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
social channels before hiring candidates. “These temporary-sharing technologies are supposed to solve this problem of the internet never forgetting,” says Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Articles of 2021
identity as a first-gen low-income student and professional. My EC (second) year I did one of the scariest things of my life: I shared with the whole HBS community my life... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
helped create tens of thousands of products representing more than 150 countries. The designers share in the revenues and the company offers literacy programming to its manufacturers. “For me, what I wanted... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
My Time at HBS After 500 cases over two years though, I’ve realized that the most important thing for me is the idea of service driven leadership - those are the types of case... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
two nuclear physicists for grandparents, I grew up in a strongly STEM household. My family fostered in me a desire to understand how things worked and I latched on to the then-nascent Internet and computer... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty?
By: Jeremy Friedman, Sarah Bauerle Danzman and David Lane
This case covers TikTok’s purchase of Musical.ly and the reaction of the United States government, including the review of the purchase by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the reaction of the presidential administration of Donald... View Details
Keywords: Data Security; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cybersecurity; Internet and the Web; International Relations; Laws and Statutes; Globalized Firms and Management
Friedman, Jeremy, Sarah Bauerle Danzman, and David Lane. "TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty?" Harvard Business School Case 722-020, May 2022.
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
in which to communicate decisions and priorities, but also have rapid communication to the entire body of constituents—not delays over hours or days or, even worse, weeks. Silence is absolutely the worst possible View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
such things are implemented." Kapil Kumar Sopory speculated, "The very idea of scanning someone's brain before employing him/her is mind boggling. And at present it may be illegal too it is all so... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett