Enhancing Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

personally and professionally, and why he just trademarked it. You were able to trademark the term "FOMO" recently. What motivated you to take this step? "I coined the term FOMO in a May 2004 humor column in the HARBUS, and I hadn't realized that my word had lived an... View Details

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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environmental regulation on business by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. Since then, Professor Porter and the Institute have continued to explore how new government regulations, as well as... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

Administration. In this conversation, Weinzierl, the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration, highlights some of the ways the School has strengthened the MBA curriculum in recent years by adopting new ideas and approaches that keep it in step... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

2018
Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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13 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

negativity online makes people experience and share more negative emotions came from Facebook. In a controversial 2012 experiment, the social media giant secretly altered the news feeds of 689,003 users to see if posts about others’ positive View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

06 Sep 2016
Blog Post

What Makes the HBS MBA unique?

experience. It helps prepare you to be a general manager, where you have to make tough decisions. 2. The Section Experience The first year section experience is a unique part of life at HBS. At the start of your first year, you’re... View Details

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

Leahy is showcasing exactly why she is the right person for the job. The Beauty of Combining Art and Science In many ways, Leahy’s path to the Glossier CEO seat working at the intersection of art and science started in her early years.... View Details

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Redefining Productivity in the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

activities within the value chain. Building on Michael Porter’s decades of work in corporate strategy, the framework for Creating Shared Value analyzes the value chain from the perspective of societal as well as economic value. The Value... View Details

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

work with leaders who are committed to driving change and creating impact that spans all three. In its 25th anniversary year, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative celebrated its pioneering role as the first business school to have a... View Details

07 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Is HBS Too Big?

because of the class size. You are definitely not trapped into an insular community or restricted to existing clubs or activities. It feels small because of the section experience. I cannot emphasize the benefit of section life enough.... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

research into this emerging field and its implications for executives. Sean Silverthorne: How did you get interested in studying multi- and two-sided platforms? Is this a new area of research? Andrei Hagiu: During my PhD program in economics at Princeton, I always... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

technologies are reshaping work and life in potentially emancipatory ways. Many of these redeployments and innovations are aimed at advancing equality. Which of these tools hold promise, and which are... View Details

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Tara Basu Trivedi

year of work in the real world. Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering that you’re a tiny fish in a giant ocean. But rather than focus on how tiny you are, you learn to appreciate how much your View Details

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Student Research - Doctoral

By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears , Jay Garg , James J. Choi and David Laibson 01 MAY 2025 | Faculty & Research 2023 Research (pdf) 2023 Research (pdf) 2025 Working Paper Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

21 Jun 2024
Blog Post

What Does PRIDE Mean to You?

to give thanks to those who came before us for the hard battles they fought, and to remember that our work isn’t done. This year, I’m especially thankful for all the queer friends I’ve made in and out of HBS. Never in my View Details

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For Alumni - Health Care

like to get involved healthcare_initiative@hbs.edu Apply to be a Blavatnik Fellow The Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship provides a select group of Harvard Business School MBA alumni with the opportunity to View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations... View Details

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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

conduits for giving, then they not only fall far short of their potential but also fail to meet an important societal obligation. Drawing on Porter's work on competition and strategy, the authors then present a framework for thinking... View Details

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

in their current circumstances; for people who are working hard and maybe even finding success in their life and work, but who struggle to find meaning or fulfillment in what they are doing; for those who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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