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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

January 2025
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans

This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details

Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees

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29 Jan 2019
HBS Seminar

Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

30 Jun 2010
News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

research by three HBS professors suggests otherwise. The research project began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grows in powerful committee assignments, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

program for PreK-12 school leaders, is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School. Bridging the fields of business and education, CSML integrates... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Aug 2017
News

Could this be the real reason your boss emails you outside business hours?

Web

Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

impact and building their network of influence. Global Business Power and Influence for Positive Impact Sustainable Business Strategy What You Earn Certificate Boost your... View Details

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

24 Jul 2024
Video

Andy Hoffman: It’s time for business schools to respond to a changing world

11 Jan 2017
News

A Dog Walks into a Bar

Keywords: communication; jokes; humor; competency; faculty research

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation, 1922–1966... View Details

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2022-23 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s ninth cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift to Harvard University from the Blavatnik... View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

is ever going to leap ahead. The main barrier, according to Pisano, is the lack of integration among costs, rules, technologies, and disciplines. In a presentation at the Harvard Business School Alumni Healthcare Conference, held last... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Dec 2002
News

The Campaign for Harvard Business School

Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

June 2020
Teaching Note

Understanding the Brand Equity of Nestlé Crunch Bar

By: Jill Avery and Gerald Zaltman

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 519-061 and 519-062. In early 2018, Nestlé announced the sale of its U.S. candy-making division and a select collection of twenty of its confectionery brands, including the Nestlé Crunch Bar, to Ferrero SpA for $2.8 billion. Under the... View Details