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March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
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Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences

Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

300 Academic Publications $ 140 m. Investment in Research Student Research Reputation Burning: Analyzing the Impact of Brand Sponsorship on Social Influencers By: Mengjie Cheng and Shunyuan Zhang 01 JUL 2025 | Management Science... View Details

21 Jun 2011
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http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research Associates View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Now Starring: Single Dad

son, Robby. Wand’s experience as a student and single dad was the subject of a made-for-TV movie, “Freshman Father,” that aired on the Hallmark Channel in June. “If you think about coming from Idaho, the social stigma around a teenage... View Details

Keywords: single parents; fatherhood; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

2000
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The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Business Succeed through Strategic Alliances

By: J. E. Austin

Keywords: Alliances; Business Ventures; Nonprofit Organizations

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March 2017
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Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal

This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details

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14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

author of Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers. These are cross-group relationships that are strategically mapped to include stakeholders with direct relationships to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

June 2021
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Acelero Learning

By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen

In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States

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04 Oct 2022
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Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

without suggesting what that might mean for tariff policy. David Wittenberg, saying that he is “loath to offer any advice save to treat the situation gingerly,” saw the US-China relationship as one in which, “The US administration has to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Aug 2017
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Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

Engaged workers are more productive. (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP: How Can We Prepare Leaders to Engage Their Associates? This month’s column elicited a number of reasons on why organizations around the world do such a poor job of engaging their employees. The dominant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

May–June 2019
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Cross-Silo Leadership

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Tiziana Casciaro and Sujin Jang

Today the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies must break down silos and get people working together across boundaries. But that’s a challenge for many... View Details

Keywords: Cross-functional Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Employees; Attitudes

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17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Employees are feeling alienated Abdelal and DeLong see all of these phenomena as stemming from a common cause: the rise of contractual relationships with employees in place of emotional investment. “We’ve moved more and more from the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

March 2023
Case

Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth about $4.4 million at the time) in... View Details

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November 2022
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Goonj: Growing in the Face of a Pandemic

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Priyank Narayan

Founded by the husband and wife team of Anshu and Meenakshi Gupta in 1999, Goonj had quickly emerged as one of the leading disaster relief and rural development organizations in India. Their main mode of development was through providing a clothing kit to the village... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Management; Family Business; Natural Disasters; Social Issues; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business and Community Relations; Strategy; India

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02 Oct 2006
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Negotiating in Three Dimensions

For its representative in these critical talks, the board should have hired an outside specialist, with properly aligned interests and incentives. More generally, you should look hard at a potential agent's other interests and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

people across the supply chain to coordinate large scale climate adaptation strategies.” Leni continued, “Moreover, water is a critical resource that companies share with neighboring communities and ecosystems. If companies wish to maintain positive, long lasting View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

deeper relationship with your colleagues. And I have research that shows that if you are among a minority and you’re going through an experience where you are feeling excluded, authenticity actually can buffer against that experience.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

October 2022
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Weapons of Self Destruction: Zak Pym Williams and the Cultivation of Mental Wellness

By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger

Zak Pym Williams, mental health advocate, grappled with the question of how to create a proactive mental health family environment for his children. Having witnessed how mental health challenges such as addiction and depression had impacted the past four generations of... View Details