Messaging - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

Joey Fatone from the band *NSYNC to read me a going away message on Cameo, which put a smile on my face thousands of miles away. This gesture showed how people-centric and awesome the team is, and how they made the best out of the given... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and giving them resources to make the less-structured career search less intimidating. Third, bringing the message that businesses can be a force for social good to the broader student body at HBS, even those who don't consider themselves... View Details

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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

typically assumed, as they impact the way organizations relate with customers from as early as product or service design to beyond the moment of purchase. A second important message is that prices serve not only to allocate value among... View Details

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Instagram Takeover Policy | About

appearance release or their filmed verbal agreement. Prior to filming, please say “This video will be used on an HBS’s Instagram account.” Receive a verbal okay to continue filming from each person. *If you would like to leverage an Instagram feature that leads to... View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship

Director Eileen Chang, past fellowship recipients, and donors focused on the impact and meaning of the fellowship. In total, 108 alumni and potential donors participated. “The many voices in this discussion represented powerful messages... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of Women World Leaders and Former Managing Director and Senior Advisor of Goldman Sachs, presents "Does the Message about the Importance of Diversity Need to Change?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Laura Liswood, Secretary General... View Details

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

communicating both the business benefits (including the risk of not changing) (and for employees) ‘what’s in it for me.’” The predominant message of respondents was that culture change is a complex process often requiring years to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

difference," Edmondson said. Inclusive leaders exhibit three characteristics that lower the fear of speaking up among their employees: such leaders are accessible, proactively invite input, and acknowledge their own fallibility. "Small enabling View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

values by sharing stories about their institutions. Indeed, they have discovered that pastors of so-called megachurches publish an unusually large number of books, not only to connect to church members, but to spread the message to an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

messages I received were that if leadership involves control, it is only over setting an organization's course and priorities." HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

instant messaging device, and any number of other products all rolled into one. Convergence Of Factors Why convergence now? A primary factor is the ever-onward march of processor technology. By the year 2010, says Yoffie, who sits on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

House building a business that trains people and stands by its values. The bakery storefront is also a gateway to potential volunteers and donors and allows Haley House to get its message out. Not that it's all been a cakewalk. Ekstrom... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Motherhood and the MBA

the class of 2016), and many of us live off campus and have partners who work (or study!) full time. There is an informal GroupMe that was formed by one of our expectant moms, and we use it as a message board to coordinate occasional... View Details

19 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 5/5

messaged me words of encouragement and mentioned “my strength and fortitude.” See what you define as strength, is what I define as imminent numbness. My Black experience means that at an early age, I witnessed repeatedly how this country... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

selfies, where you can take a picture of yourself in Glossier pink and share that on social media. They might serve a small number people during a pop-up experience, but if those people send that message out on social media, the effect is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

putting their proteges in high-trust positions, these mentors sent a message to the rest of the organization that they were considered high performers and important to the success of the organization, thereby helping to develop or... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

into it (although this would require some kind of security for illegal immigrants to induce them to come forward and pay into the system). This message has undoubtedly influenced Germany’s willingness to accept relatively huge numbers of... View Details