project work - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

great way to do independent academic research. Depending on the topic, case writing allows you to conduct primary research and meet case protagonists. Some students have leveraged such research to find new jobs or expand their professional networks. It is also a great... View Details

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

and displacement effects of immigrants on female employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

story, people would rather stick with the known, which seems safe even if it is inadequate. The ultimate art of leadership is encouraging people to let go of their fear of the unknown and plunge into the work of innovation. It’s always... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

you might not speak the language, work in teams with students you might not know, and develop critical solutions to a business’s pressing issues—in just eight days. That’s the concept behind FGI, a required course for first-year MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

positioning story or sizzle. The details can be filled in later. We have a process here called SEMS, or Systematic Emerging Market Selection. We do a SEMS project for every investment we make. Twice a year at our planning meeting, we talk... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

range of career choices: Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship: Grants awards of approximately $10,000 to 7 to 10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the not-for-profit sector. HBS... View Details

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

President’s Innovation Challenge Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) Build Entrepreneurship and Tech Skills: Tech Club & CAML club workshops/seminars Rock Center and i-lab workshops HBS Course notes on the Harvard Business Publishing Site The Entrepreneurial Manager... View Details

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the team’s View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

When receiving their performance reviews, most people find such feedback conversations to be difficult, no matter how skilled the feedback-givers are. In a recent survey I conducted of 360 working adults, 89 percent said they were not... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2022, over 65 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Allison Hughes

Roberto Mignone (MBA '96). She also received first-year honors, was chosen by HBS professor Linda Hill to lead the exam review on Leadership and Organizational Behavior for the September cohort, and was invited by HBS professor André Perold to View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

How do you assess the viability of a heat pump? Through an Independent Project with Professor George Serafeim, Meghavi Talati (MBA 2023) set out to develop a tool to help the average consumer navigate this decision. The Rise of Electric... View Details

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

discrimination among users, most recently through Project Lighthouse. Poor design invites discrimination Airbnb's early design choices were aimed at facilitating a user's trust both in the platform and fellow users, but some of those... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

Entrepreneurs Prepare for leadership roles after working as an individual contributor or functional specialist. "I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I... View Details

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx of Cornell... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

including rural health-care initiatives and even Bollywood. As Khanna explained to HBS Working Knowledge, "One can see China clearly when juxtaposed against India, a neighbor that, like China, is a large, populous, and ancient... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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