Value - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

and reorients strategy. Flourishing companies are finding that the connections they foster are more important than the content they create. Success comes not from making the best content but from recognizing how content enables customers’ connectivity; it comes not... View Details

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

must be nurtured and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the opportunity. And finally, incremental innovations must ensure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

applying for a loan reduction award, you understand that the Selection Committee may verify any and all parts of your application and supporting materials. Recipients of an HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees award agree to abide by the HBS Community View Details

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

blockchain, which is like that transport layer of email where a piece of value-- in the case of a bitcoin, a piece of digital value-- can drop down into an address stream and know where to come out. And you could, basically, replace that digital View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

1962, described changes in the first-year curriculum aimed at instilling in students "the instinctive acceptance of responsi-bility . . . for the problems of the community in which the student operates." He asserted, "We must help make men develop open-mindedness plus... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

management of variability often requires a company to influence customers' behavior. Managers attempting that kind of intervention can follow a three-step process: diagnosing the behavioral problem, designing an operating role for customers that creates new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

and a place that valued the environment, he says. “And frankly, it used to be the best place in the world to live or work or retire or come for holidays. So I set my ambitions very high.” Mitsotakis is confident that capital won’t be the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

thinks there is no value in it. “I think we can learn things from their systems—because they have the ability to do controlled experiments—that we can then take outside or in more traditional, controlled-environment agriculture,” she... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

the combination of a desire to hold out for the best. And it's also this belief that option value is really sort of valuable in and of itself. That combination not only hurts you because you become indecisive and you become trapped in... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

at 6,630 or so. The US economy is in its longest economic expansion in history, albeit at growth rates that look anemic compared to other times in history. So that certainly reflects a huge success story, at least when it comes to stock prices and the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

they can work together. "In a truly multicultural corporate environment, people strive to strike a balance between their own cultural core and being open to other value systems, communication styles, and decision-making... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

and the smarts more shallow as they were passed down the line and across the world—but some value was always transmitted. You Don't Always Need To Be An Expert To Be A Knowledge Coach In 1967, a young graduate of Bombay's Indian Institute... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

point that managers looking to commercialize disruptive technologies must set modest revenue expectations or risk forcing their divisions to overlook emerging markets or target the wrong ones. If revenue targets are too large, a division may be forced to choose target... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the military and at ARD, Doriot emphasized the value of first-hand experience in the business world. "He wanted us to hear what it's like in real business ," Draper remembers. 17 Through his wealth of connections, Doriot invited... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

their respective world-class companies—but not a start-up. The team members hadn’t been to the right school to create and drive a new-growth project. That relegated Pandesic to a footnote in Intel’s and SAP’s histories. Planning Your Courses at the Schools of... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

teaching, in the Harvard Business Analytics Program. I also think we'll find the boundaries across these different learning modes far more porous, as I just described, because while we value greatly the residential learning experience on... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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My First Job

entity. And my lesson was the value of mentors. If someone is really going to give you an opportunity, take it seriously, and give it your all. Lloyd Berutti, and I graduated in 1977. My first job getting out of business school was I went... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

ground where they can work together. “In a truly multicultural corporate environment, people strive to strike a balance between their own cultural core and being open to other value systems, communication styles, and decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Approach By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Expected return proxies (ERP) derived from a log-linear present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market... View Details