Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

Index from 2009 to 2021 to efforts by minority entrepreneurs to raise money on Kickstarter, which has raised $7.3 billion for popular projects such as opening restaurants and publishing comic books. “You can compare quarters within the same View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Stockholm (A) by Michael E. Porter, Clifford M. Marks and Zachary C. Landman It was the waiting that drew the attention of the Stockholm County Council. In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 Sep 2023
News

Screen Time

were a lot of fun. Then we had a fireside chat with professor emeritus George Lodge—who is 95 years old—and people shared stories about the ways he impacted their lives and careers. It was an incredibly moving session.” Sometimes the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

country) are consuming, or spending, more than you actually produce. Think about a household. If you earn $100,000 a year and spend $106,000, you're going to have to borrow $6,000 (or draw down your assets) to make View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

course for first year MBA students , which immerses them in global research projects to produce a new product or experience, often in an emerging market country. To prepare students for their global immersion and help them practice market... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

employees to discover their purpose in life but to then find a connection between our personal life purpose with the purpose of the organization where we work. The great resignation under way over the past year has shown us that employees... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jan 2011
News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

times, but also through turmoil," he observes. "It requires deep reservoirs of patience and discipline." Klarman and his family attend a Red Sox game. Seth Klarman was born in New York City and grew up in Baltimore. His father, a health... View Details

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

diverge from the typical nine-to-five. Contrary to some expectations—but consistent with years of research—that flexibility has actually spurred worker productivity to improve. In polls that Neeley has taken at companies in a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

to decrease their control over it by finding alternative providers of that resource.” The ups and downs of diamonds Power is not fixed in stone, the authors say, and the rise and fall of the South African De Beers diamond empire over a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

environments in which payoffs are determined by comparing relative performance. It's not that the pressure of competition causes women to stumble but, rather, that men step up their performance in competitive situations. Consider the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

along with it—in essence, defining the way that applications should interact with its preexisting software components. It extended the model to its application business, sharing increasing amounts of code between products like Word and Excel. Over time, as more and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Eligibility | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Eligibility Criteria Awards How to Apply FAQs Qualified alumni may apply at any time during the first ten years following graduation; preference is given to graduates entering the Program within three years... View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

complexities of capitalizing their projects—from debt to equity funding options—on their own. This is precisely where DLS steps in, leveraging 20 years of industry experience and relationships to connect clients with the right investors.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

my family makes from scratch together on special occasions. When the xiang bing appeared, I started crying uncontrollably. The number of tears was honestly hilarious. I used up every spare tissue and napkin in my bag, my friend’s... View Details

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

stopping there. We have applications out for some other things – like NFTs. (I had NFT FOMO last year when they were trending.)" Did you do anything fun to celebrate the trademark? "In addition to FOMO, I have also successfully protected... View Details

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

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