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- 11 Aug 2014
- News
What Business Schools Don't Get About MOOCs
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The imperial chief executive, hailed not... View Details
- November 2015
- Case
Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work
By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith
Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search
Zhu, Feng, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti, and Aaron Smith. "Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 616-027, November 2015.
- 18 Nov 2011
- News
A Gift to Honor Professor Arthur Segel
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
Summing Up Is the Potential Negative Impact of New Information Technologies on Customer Loyalties Overstated? Customers will remain loyal to brands that meet their needs, regardless of the effects of new View Details
- 12 Oct 2010
- News
Underestimating Wealth Inequality
- April 1997 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late 1994, James Down, member of Mercer's Executive Committee, has to decide whether or not he should push ahead with the writing and publication of a book on growth--at a time when the more successful business publications focus on reengineering and cost cutting.... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Culture; Business Growth and Maturation; Knowledge Management; Product Development; Information Publishing; Books; Consulting Industry; Publishing Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative. Harvard Business School Case 697-084, April 1997. (Revised May 1997.)
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
With the launch of the Gender Initiative in spring 2015, HBS is poised to become an important resource for research on gender. “So much of what people think they know about gender is simply not substantiated by empirical evidence, but instead is based on stereotypes,”... View Details
- March 22, 2024
- Article
It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse Shapiro
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Jesse Shapiro. "It’s Time to Give Up on Ending Social Media’s Misinformation Problem." The Atlantic (website) (March 22, 2024).
- 2022
- Article
Data Poisoning Attacks on Off-Policy Evaluation Methods
By: Elita Lobo, Harvineet Singh, Marek Petrik, Cynthia Rudin and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are a crucial tool for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where exploration is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. However, the extent to which such methods can be trusted under adversarial threats... View Details
Lobo, Elita, Harvineet Singh, Marek Petrik, Cynthia Rudin, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Data Poisoning Attacks on Off-Policy Evaluation Methods." Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 38th (2022): 1264–1274.
- January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
- Supplement
Apple Computer 1995 (A)
By: David B. Yoffie and Takia Mahmood
Updates Apple Computer--1992. Summarizes the key strategic actions from 1992 to 1995 regarding PCs, the PowerMac, multimedia, OS licensing, and alliances with IBM. View Details
Yoffie, David B., and Takia Mahmood. "Apple Computer 1995 (A)." Harvard Business School Supplement 795-061, January 1995. (Revised March 1995.)
- 2003
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Eight Imperatives for Leaders in a Networked World: E-Government
By: L. M. Applegate and J. Mechling
- Article
Mergers and Competition in Book Publishing
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "Mergers and Competition in Book Publishing." Antitrust Bulletin 25, no. 2 (Summer 1980).
- 1996
- Manual
Instructor's Manual for Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text
By: F. L. Reinhardt and R. H.K. Vietor
Reinhardt, F. L., and R. H.K. Vietor. Instructor's Manual for Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text. Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing, 1996.
- 1996
- Book
Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text
By: F. L. Reinhardt and R. H.K. Vietor
Reinhardt, F. L., and R. H.K. Vietor. Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Text. Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing, 1996.
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) In early March 2020, DreamBox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990) could point proudly to the growth of the online math company. In the last nine years, since the startup pivoted from consumer... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
When Kathleen Cooke Ryan took up her new role as executive director of the HBS Global Initiative last March, she joined a thriving organization. After the successful 1999 launch of its first international research center -- the Asia-Pacific Research Office, in Hong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner... View Details