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07 Jun 2023
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3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

at Harvard Business School. “It was better designed and nicer to use.” However, when Amazon released its Kindle e-reader three years later, it included an important feature: a connection to wifi that allowed readers to download books more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

result, there are meaningful externalities in the mutual fund industry due to cash management. A fund family may coordinate the liquidity management efforts of its funds in order to minimize volatility spillovers from fire sales. Related... View Details

18 Jul 2023
News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

eye-opening glimpse under the hood of an industry I love. Coupled with my time on movie sets and in production offices, I saw the industry’s huge potential for innovation. During business school, I also noted that some entertainment had a... View Details

Keywords: Robert Bochnak

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

business leaders recognize that just because an individual makes a mistake does not mean they cannot be valuable within an organization.” Yet as soon as he opened up about his incarceration, the previously jovial meeting with the senior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

William. "Case Study: Do We Reskill or Replace Our Workforce?" Harvard Business Review 103, no. 4 (July–August 2025): 141–145. (Family) Size Matters: Nico Oprée and the Decreasing Power of Family Unity over... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

September 2015
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GovDelivery

By: Mitchell Weiss

Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off... View Details

Keywords: GovDelivery; Public Entrepreneurship; B2G; Business-to-Government; Scott Burns; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Venture Capital; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Web Services Industry; Minnesota; United States

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Fatima Albassam

In 2017, when Fatima Albassam was working in her home country of Saudi Arabia as a business development analyst for Saudi Aramco, she began making volunteer service trips to Jordan to support Syrian refugees. “While there,” Fatima says,... View Details

William Engels

Keywords: Agribusiness

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Latin America - Global

greatly increased the volume of in-depth research and course materials that focus on business management issues specific to Latin American companies. This has also enabled HBS to strengthen its relationships with important companies and... View Details

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and fellow researchers compared the outcomes of flexible work arrangements at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The team found that employees with liberal “work from... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

How can financial planners expand their businesses as their core population ages and young investors flirt with novel financial products like cryptocurrency? The most profitable path forward is to follow the very advice they often give... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

; Impact Investing ; ESG ; Family Business ; Forecasting and Prediction ; Private Sector ; Renewable Energy ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Climate Change ; Environmental Sustainability ; Green Technology ;... View Details

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Monica Dodi

As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer markets for women and View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Entertainment / Media

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How can business history influence current... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

Fellowship supports the School’s need-blind admissions policy and reduces student debt, allowing Burden Fellows to pursue careers based on their passions, as their benefactors did. “For 50 years, the Burden family has supported Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

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Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration Mattias E. Fibiger Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration Jeremy S. Friedman Marvin Bower Associate Professor Natalia... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

the Puritan merchants of New England, they used their familial and religious connections to form a tight network of trustworthy relationships stretching over long distances. This kind of system for making credible View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Law and Business Ashley V. Whillans Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration Julian J. Zlatev Julie Damgard Frist and Thomas Frist III... View Details

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