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05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

their direct control, and that is something that few managers fully realize at this point,” says Nagle. “Many are starting to realize it, but I think it’ll be one of the bigger shifts that traditional management goes through as the digital revolution marches on.”... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

Author Kristen Senz is a social media editor and writer for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition How Companies Benefit When Employees Work... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

lives, it is difficult to escape coverage of climate change in the media today. With many countries as well as companies declaring their net-zero ambitions, it is tempting to think that business leaders have accepted the inevitable and... View Details

13 Apr 2016
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Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

only player, but it should try to become the first player that comes to mind when customers, analysts, or the media think about the new market category. McDonald points to recent examples such as SpaceX in commercial space flight and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

23 Nov 2020
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COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

consumer, bankruptcies dropped 28 percent year-over-year. Chapter 11 business bankruptcies climbed 35 percent year-over-year and by 194 percent for corporations with more than $50 million in assets. However, when small businesses are included, total business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Weiss : Winner of the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching. 2014 Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named a 2014 "Venture Capitalist" Power Player in Digital Media by AlwaysOn. Jeffrey J. Bussgang : Named one of Boston Magazine's Most Powerful... View Details

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Annora Wang

was filled with second year students who had made career switches, like I wanted to make, and could speak about their experiences as interns in media entertainment companies. It was very easy to get helpful advice. Why do you think your... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto] Related Reading For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style What’s Really... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Graduate Student Council of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2000. 1991 Kathleen L. McGinn : Recipient of a 1991 Dissertation Grant from the Media Management... View Details

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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

the future without learning from the past.” About the Name A member of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, after graduating from HBS, transformed Telemedia Communications, Inc., into a major media... View Details

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

countries that similar development made sense. So it's a tricky public policy issue. Q: How does growth in private hospitals affect public health care in India? A: There is an assumption in the view often expressed in the media in India... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

30 Mar 2018
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What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

billion in seven trading days. One business columnist had proposed the creation of a federal Digital Protection Agency, whose job would be to “clean up toxic data spills, educate the public, and calibrate and levy fines.” Social media had... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

mainstream media attention on their research on wealth inequality, including this YouTube video, which has received more than 19 million views. But, Norton says, it took nearly 10 years for the media to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

social media and instantaneous communication Generational change as millennial and Gen Z workers with a more egalitarian, self-expressive style move into the workforce (and, at this point, into leadership roles: the oldest millennials are... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

their value. At the same time, our go-go workplaces are emphasizing and rewarding 24x7 productivity. To study this idea, the researchers set up six experiments to gauge our attitudes about luxury and busyness. As a preliminary test, the researchers combed through... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

more than it charged light users. The original basis for pricing telephone service, including both a fixed monthly charge and a usage charge, represents the same kind of thinking. The person who chose to price advertising services as 15 percent of the View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

the right to name the baby! Ultimately we auctioned the right to be the first to hold Reggie and post his first social media photo. I was surprised we were able to raise good money with that "prize" and really touched that... View Details

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