Publications

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

company’s strategy, or you have a rival who could block your path to the C-suite. Listen Now! The Disruptive Voice Explores the theories of disruptive innovation with academics, researchers, and practitioners who have been inspired and... View Details

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PhD Programs - Doctoral

Faculty throughout Harvard guide the programs through their participation on advisory committees. How do I know which program is right for me? Our PhD students draw on diverse personal and professional backgrounds to pursue an ever-expanding range of research topics.... View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

social and environmental issues? NGOs have become an important element of the global economy and firms should expect to interact with them.—Debora Spar Spar: Again, it really depends on the firm, the business, and the activist groups... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

2009
Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

Article

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist

By: Nava Ashraf, Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein

Adam Smith's psychological perspective in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is remarkably similar to "dual-process" frameworks advanced by psychologists, neuroscientists, and more recently by behavioral economists, based on behavioral data and detailed observations... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Economics

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Keywords: Food Service

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Alumni

shifted to remote work. As you navigate a remote work environment, keep the following best practices in mind to set yourself and your team up for success. Social Media Feeds Meet Nora Barr Hennings: SEAS and HBS graduate, engineer, and... View Details

July 2016
Case

Spotify

By: Anita Elberse and Alexandre de Pfyffer

In November 2014, Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks learns that record label Big Machine Records has requested the immediate removal of superstar artist Taylor Swift's entire catalogue from Spotify's music streaming service. Is it time for Spotify to reconsider... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Marketing; Superstar; Music; Entertainment Marketing; Media; Digital Technology; Creative Industries; Product Portfolio Management; General Management; Management; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Open Source Distribution; Creativity; Music Entertainment; Product Marketing; Music Industry

July – August 2011
Article

Evolve (Again)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Frenzy over social networks and interactive media can produce equally overhyped predictions that everything will change, not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships

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10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America:... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

Srikant M. Datar

Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry

11 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development I found my professional North Star as an undergraduate student while studying abroad in rural Tanzania. Our work in clean water... View Details

26 Mar 2019
Blog Post

SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

This post is part of our Social Enterprise Initiative 25th anniversary blog series, which highlights some of the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have been a part of SEI throughout the years. In this post, Misan Rewane (MBA 2013,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2020
Presentations & Discussions

Lessons from W50

July 2015
Article

Prosocial Norms in the Classroom: The Role of Self-regulation in Following Norms of Giving

By: P. R. Blake, M. Piovesan, N. Montinari, F. Werneken and F. Gino

Children who are prosocial in elementary school tend to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Attitudes; Learning; Standards; Education Industry

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13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

simultaneously and meeting personal due dates and quality standards. More importantly, we have the skills to coach teams to meet their deadlines and standards as well. Second, I learned that I love helping teams that are making real... View Details

October 2020
Case

PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India

By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen

Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Information Technology; Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; Education Industry; India; Asia

February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private Equity

By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode

Omar Simmons, managing director of a private equity fund that owns 53 Planet Fitness Health Clubs, has to choose: continue in private equity or shift his career to managing and growing the health clubs. An African-American graduate of Princeton University and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Diversity Characteristics; Ethnicity Characteristics; Health Club Franchises; African-american Entrepreneurs; Finance; Private Equity; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Development and Career; Franchise Ownership; Consulting Industry; Boston