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  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

thanks to technological advances like internet connectivity, mobile devices, and software. Autonomy is a much-touted benefit at many organizations, and it’s nice to believe that we each know the best path to our own optimal productivity.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet
    • 2019
    • Book

    The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

    By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
    The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Hunting for Talent: Firm-Driven Labor Market Search in the United States

    By: Ines Black, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
    This article analyzes the phenomenon of firm-driven labor market search—or outbound recruiting—where recruiters are increasingly “hunting for talent” rather than passively relying on workers to search for and apply to job vacancies. Our research methodology leverages... View Details
    Keywords: Hiring; Referrals; Outbound Recruiting; Labor Markets; Selection and Staffing; Networks; Recruitment; Strategy; United States
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    • September 2019 (Revised October 2019)
    • Case

    Burunda Prince at The Farm, a Comcast NBCUniversal Innovation Hub (Powered by Boomtown)

    By: Linda A. Hill, Eric Mankin and Emily Tedards
    After a successful inaugural year, Burunda Prince, the Managing Director of Comcast’s startup business accelerator The Farm, was getting ready for an eventful 2019. Comcast was America's largest cable and internet service provider, having built a profitable business... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Accelerator; Entrepreneur; Startup; Outsourcing; Hiring; Talent; Culture; Ecosystem; Digital; Women; African Americans; Leadership; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Management; Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Media; Entertainment; Transformation; Atlanta
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    • 21 Aug 2018
    • News

    The Business Shelf: Driving Digital Strategy

      Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

      The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to... View Details
      • 16 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

      immigration policy during a period of growing skills gaps. In a quest for efficiency, they rely on AI-powered hiring systems that inadvertently exclude skilled candidates due to minor shortcomings in their qualifications, are difficult to navigate without robust View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

        William A. Sahlman

        William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

        Keywords: internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet; internet
        • March 2023
        • Case

        MrBeast: Building a YouTube Empire

        By: Anita Elberse and Oliver Band
        Wednesday November 16, 2022 was a historic day in the ascent of Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, to the top echelon of YouTube creators. That day he became the YouTuber with the most subscribers ever—a total of 112 million. The meteoric rise of the 24-year-old... View Details
        Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Power and Influence; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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        • 2017
        • Book

        HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company

        By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
        Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurs; Small Companies; Small Business Finance; Negotiation; Due Diligence; Sourcing; Search Funds; Search; Deal Sourcing; Deal Structuring; Funnel; Debt Financing; Small And Medium Enterprises; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Deal; Ownership; Equity; Borrowing and Debt
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        • 15 Nov 2022
        • Op-Ed

        Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

        their own versions of it. Rethinking the discovery problem The rise of the internet democratized the publishing and distribution of information and entertainment. In the process, it created an enormous discovery problem. Those with an... View Details
        Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
        • 29 May 2009
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Crafting Integrated Multichannel Retailing Strategies

        Keywords: by Jie Zhang, Paul Farris, Tarun Kushwaha, John Irvin, Thomas J. Steenburgh & Barton Weitz; Retail
        • Research Summary

        Managing Product Development in Rapidly Changing Environments

        By: Alan D. MacCormack
        A consistent finding in many studies of innovation is the repeated failure of established firms when faced with radical changes in their core markets or technologies. Professor MacCormack's research takes the view that many of these failures can be attributed to the... View Details
        • Research Summary

        The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services

        By: James I. Cash
        James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details
        • 07 Mar 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

        Internet boom, companies armed with nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation of a lousy idea could secure tens of millions of dollars—which sometimes gave them enough time to figure out a viable business plan through trial and error.... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
        • May 2021
        • Teaching Note

        From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'

        By: Tsedal Neeley
        Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 419-027 and 419-046. Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faces a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he sees digital shockwaves... View Details
        Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Transformation; Strategy; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Culture; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry
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        • 27 Jun 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

        Internet are bringing out a high-tech type of leadership that is common in America's high-tech sector. Entrepreneurial, innovative, hard-driving, very flexible, ambitious, optimistic, visionary in the technology and business aspects, they... View Details
        Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
        • 13 Dec 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: Dec. 13

        Internet channel to a retail store channel should produce different effects than adding a retail store to the Internet channel. To test our theory, we analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Web

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