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  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

  Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In successful View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • News

The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    Meeting the Challenge of Corporate Entrepreneurship

    To be competitive, companies must grow innovative new businesses. Corporate entrepreneurship, however, isn't easy. New ventures face innumerable barriers and seldom mesh smoothly with well-established systems, processes, and cultures. Nonetheless, success requires a... View Details

    • 22 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 22

    Harvard Business School Case 313-091 The JOBS Act of 2012 This Note summarizes the potential of the Jobs Act of 2012 to change the way in which emerging growth companies, or EMGs, access capital markets. Described as among the most... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

      The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

      • November 2017
      • Teaching Note

      Tencent

      By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
      Keywords: Tencent; Tencent Holdings; WeChat; Social Networking; Social Networks; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Video Games; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Portals; Payments; Mobile Payments; O2O; Online-to-offline; E-commerce; Messaging; Subscription Model; Freemium; Mobile App Industry; Smartphone; PC; Monetization Strategy; Antitrust; Streaming; Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Alibaba; Facebook; JD.com; Tesla; Bundling; Synergies; Digital Strategy; Imitation; Licensing; Agility; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Communication Technology; Blogs; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Price; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Media; Distribution Channels; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Opportunities; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Segmentation; Business Units; Communication; Profit; Communications Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Music Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; Asia; China; Canton (province, China)
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      • 2014
      • Chapter

      Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities

      By: Matthew Lee, Julie Battilana and Ting Wang
      Purpose: Despite the increase in empirical studies of social enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research... View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship
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      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

      By: Alvin J. Silk
      What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
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      • Web

      Alumni

      interactive HBS alumni networking workshop. We will discuss the benefits of applying the scientific method to networking. This framework when applied to gathering market information and navigating professional decision points - removes the typical View Details
      • January – February 2011
      • Article

      Stop Holding Yourself Back

      By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
      After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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      • 08 Jun 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      The Return of the Salesman

      products with new inventions. But a strong sales force could also create a barrier to entry as in the case of IBM. Tom Watson himself noted that even though IBM did not always have the most innovative products, the company succeeded... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
      • Web

      HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

      Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers How can formerly incarcerated people reintegrate into society... View Details
      • April 2022
      • Case

      Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

      By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
      "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The case identifies six distinct phases in the... View Details
      Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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      • March–April 2021
      • Article

      Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.

      By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu
      Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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      • 17 Jul 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: July 17, 2007

      to platform leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's market, combining... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 10 Jun 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

      Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
      • April 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?

      By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-066, "Gender Equality in Business: 100 Years of Progress?" The case traces the history of women in management from the early 20th to early 21st century through analysis of Harvard Business Review's coverage of women and gender. The... View Details
      Keywords: History; Business History; Gender; Management; Employees; Leadership; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Work-Life Balance; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Diversity; Equity; United States
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      • 29 May 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: May 29, 2007

      change in the organization? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807149 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt Harvard Business School Case 307-001 Habitat for Humanity—Egypt (HFHE), has grown in just... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace