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  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Case Study: Up in the Air

in central and eastern Europe, each employing five to 500 software engineers, are often locked out of larger enterprise deals. What’s more, their target clients and projects are relatively small, which means... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 26 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

commercial hindrance. A recent study of more than 500 biomedical startups suggests that ventures rooted in the core research of their founders have a more challenging time reaching key measures of success, such as raising capital or... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)

balance sheet. The most important thing is the people. If you love a job but hate the people, you will not survive. If you love the people but hate the job, you’ll be OK. Sometimes in life you have to hitch... View Details
Keywords: April White; real estate; leadership; diversity; African American; career paths; women in business; Real Estate
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real estate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

the boss. They're in charge. That's what we teach here at Harvard Business School. But in this case, the board is an advisor because if Mark doesn't want to do it there's nothing the board can do. They can... View Details
  • Spring 2016
  • Article

Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael E. Menietti
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy
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    Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

    Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
    • November 9, 2019
    • Article

    Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

    By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
    Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
    Design: Randomised controlled trial.

    Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
    Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

    innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies by... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 2018
    • Article

    Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818

    By: Sudev J Sheth
    The meaning of land revenue farming in Indian history has eluded consensus. Some view it as an administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iqṭāʻ... View Details
    Keywords: Iqṭāʻ; Ijārah; Revenue Farming; Financial Agents; Mughal Empire; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Property; Finance; South Asia
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    • May 2021
    • Article

    Choice Architecture in Physician–patient Communication: A Mixed-methods Assessment of Physicians' Competency

    By: J. Hart, K. Yadav, S. Szymanski, A. Summer, A. Tannenbaum, J. Zlatev, D. Daniels and S.D. Halpern
    Background: Clinicians’ use of choice architecture, or how they present options, systematically influences the choices made by patients and their surrogate decision makers. However, clinicians may incompletely understand this influence.... View Details
    Keywords: Choice Architecture; Health Care and Treatment; Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competency and Skills
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    • 17 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

    argued, the company was "involved in every aspect of the operation"-from how many rides drivers had to accept in an hour to how they had to interact with customers. Two separate class-action lawsuits against... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

    Leadership Development (ALD) discussion group for some of the most stimulating, vulnerable, and raw conversations I had while in business school. In a world in which your... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2019
    • Blog Post

    Black Excellence: AASU’s 2019 Fall Retreat in Review

    The 2019-2020 African American Student's Union (AASU) family is officially the largest it has ever been in the history of Harvard Business School. The strength of this community has always been of paramount importance to AASU student... View Details
    • 15 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    Instagram Takeover - Arts Society Trek in NYC

    With over 70 HBS clubs and 200 leadership positions, HBS takes what you do outside of the classroom very seriously. Although many of the clubs at HBS are industry focused, many are centered on sports, food, art, music, and other extracurricular activities. View Details
    • 24 May 2021
    • News

    The Role Experiments Play in Addressing Discrimination

    • 20 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

    more optimistic than in prior years about the future of human space exploration via non-government firms. Mission Statement: VIRGIN GALACTIC “Our mission, to be the Spaceline for Earth, means we focus on... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
    • 09 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

    If you choose to pursue a career in business, I can guarantee that you will experience moments that will test you as never before. At times like those, what quality will you need more than any other? I believe that quality is courage.... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2018
    • News

    Governor Baker Swears In New Commission on Digital Innovation and Lifelong Learning

    • Web

    Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

    Middle East & North Africa Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan Pictured: Mikheil Lomtadze (MBA 2002) returned to the HBS classroom as a case protagonist. In mid-2018, Mikheil Lomtadze... View Details