Messaging - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

this recovery has not been as robust as those in the past. There are some mixed messages coming out of Washington as well. President Obama wants to accelerate the housing recovery, because it is such an important part of our economy and... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

the country's first public access technology center established in an inner city, said the center has 26 computers plus video and music editing equipment, and offers residents classes in computer programming. The center is conspicuously located in Harlem to send a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

brand, think about what differentiates you in the market,” says Jonathan. Students will be eager to learn about you, your investment strategy, and your portfolio companies. Whether you deliver this message in a presentation format or in... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

26 Nov 2018
News

New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

for the global shift away from carbon-based energy, and how to factor climate change into investment strategies that emphasize sustainability. Kiernan says there were several big messages in the discussion, starting with the fact that the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

Investment and South Africa (B) Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on the envelope icon on any alumni... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

Vescovo was all alone at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest section of the Mariana Trench, about 175 miles southwest of Guam and almost 7 miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. It would take about 7 seconds for his View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business leaders send a powerful View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

think that message is important. If households get discouraged by the complicated array of investment opportunities, complicated tax rules, and seemingly capricious nature of returns, then they are losing sight of what really matters for... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

name is worth remembering." Roosevelt said that in 1902, but it's a message that feels increasingly relevant, I think especially of Silicon Valley and its cultural acceptance of failure, which is so prevalent that there's even been... 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

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