best practices - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

shifted from centuries-old practice of handwritten ledgers to a digital spreadsheet on a personal computer. Which leads to the second lesson, which is that “a killer app doesn’t guarantee enduring success.” When Mitch Kapor left the... View Details

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

are being used, but this may unintentionally introduce problems or incompatibilities as modules and software evolve over time. It is good documentation and a best practice for research data management to... View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

multiple actors and causal mechanisms that are still poorly understood. In such cases, it can still be useful to try to measure what an organization is doing and whether its strategies are working to influence societal change. But there's a tradeoff in terms of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

operations—including the UN's response to the Ebola outbreak. There is keen competition and string pulling among nations to win those upper level staff appointments. While those members, in theory, are supposed to check their national allegiances at the door, in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

Organizations with great reputations can draw large and loyal followings. Source: iStock In developed countries, the best friends of businesses are the legal, political, and social institutions—banks, courts, intellectual property... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Is the Digital Transformation Certificate Right for You?

the certificate is creating a Statement of Intent, which explains your reason for pursuing the certificate and identifies the specific programs you plan to attend. HBS Executive Education program advisors can provide you with the necessary forms. They can also help you... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

naturally choose to bring all innovations—sustaining and disruptive—to their core markets where their best customers reside.9 For example, had Western Union purchased Bell's patents, we would predict that it would not have commercialized... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

growing institution is clearly changing education—and society—in Brazil. Haddad and his handpicked advisors also borrowed working practices from institutions around the world. “I wanted to bring the best... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

trying to protect the forest,” he stresses. The company uses quarter-inch taps and marks the position of the tap on each tree every year to avoid re-tapping in the same place twice. “We adhere strictly to best View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

customer but solves it in a way that it becomes indispensable. The best way to accomplish that goal is by really understanding the customer and experiencing what they are feeling. For our product, we conducted user interviews so that we... View Details

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

for outstanding senior Black and URM faculty and scholars of race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality; and making HBS a particularly attractive place for diverse faculty to do their best work. Toward these ends, we will create, fund,... View Details

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Erin Kaivan

the security of a community, but helps individual people lift themselves out of poverty." A time of transitions Confident that an MBA would help her shift from the military to a business career, Erin applied to HBS. This was not only the fulfillment of a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52652 Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Management styles and View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

typical startup roles to help you determine which one might be the best fit for you, 2) profiles of startup executives across many different functions who share their stories and describe their responsibilities, and 3) a methodology to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, Harvard Business School “Given the urgency required to reduce emissions and the political realities faced in doing so, private investors–not governments—will need to be the key... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

sustainable finance is, its challenges, the path forward, and its key players. Akanksha Davera Sustainable Investing Participant Gain frameworks and analytical tools you can apply to make future financial decisions that serve your clients’ or organization’s goals and... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

02 Mar 2021
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The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

residents whose ancestors didn’t even live in the state at the time of the offense. “They say potentially paying for it will only exacerbate the racial tensions we live with every day, and the best thing we can do is look forward and not... View Details