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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
engagement. Alumni focus groups and interviews have been conducted around the world to better understand the motivators and barriers to alumni engagement and to further evaluate current and proposed communication channels. There were... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
one-stop destination for women worldwide. To get there, we are focused on scaling user growth by bolstering our technological tools and community engagement. Ultimately, by having users submit, interact with, and voice their opinion on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
China, can I believe the financial information in a company’s annual report? “Not really, I say. The annual report does not serve the purpose it does in market economies, that is, to communicate reliable... View Details
- July 13, 2023
- Article
Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Liang Wu
Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already popular social media platform Instagram, also owned by Meta—a feature... View Details
Keywords: Decentralization; Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Network; Industrial Organization; Competition; Open Innovation; Open Platforms; Open Source Innovation; Social Networks; Social Media; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Liang Wu. "Threads Foreshadows a Big—and Surprising—Shift in Social Media." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (July 13, 2023).
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
delighted to be taking an active part in the HBS community. "It's very refreshing to come back to the campus and see the progress the School is making in developing leading-edge research," she says. "I look forward to my part in building bridges between the academic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details
- February 2014
- Technical Note
Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kerry Herman and Christine Snively
Mobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data... View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Kerry Herman, and Christine Snively. "Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011." Harvard Business School Technical Note 814-009, February 2014.
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
game-changers such as e-mail accounts, intranets, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. "You might expect that advances in information technology would increase the number of people you could manage because it makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- November 1990 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit
By: Marco Iansiti
Describes the development of a new word processing software package, Word for Windows. The major focus is how the development process should be improved to reduce schedule slips and cost overruns. Some of the issues raised are: the use of schedules in managing... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Product Development; Programs; Projects; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco. "Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit." Harvard Business School Case 691-033, November 1990. (Revised May 1994.)
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
greater impact. The alumni came courtesy of the Community Action Partners (CAP) program organized by the HBS Association of Boston. Through CAP, alumni work in teams of four to six over several months to provide Boston-area nonprofits... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
criteria did you use in selecting the New York Times articles for the book? The book is organized around three broad themes: The rise and role of the corporation; the impact of technological change, as exemplified in the communication and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
HOME PAGE: Find the latest news, events, and alumni updates. As we plan each issue of the Alumni Bulletin, we scour our files and contacts for information about alumni who match that issue's special "focus" feature or other timely topics.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
In 1994, after a career spent mostly in corporate America, Jeff Seder (MBA '74, JD '76) began to feel that his life lacked purpose. "I was a burned-out, sold-out '60s leftover," he told the Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 2001). "I was restless and bored." Seder... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Review Press) We're moving beyond the information age into the quantitative information age. To be successful these days, managers need to be better informed consumers of data,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
students will be our future leaders. I would like to increase the number of cases on Japanese companies so that they really understand Japan,” explains Sato. Drawing on his experience as a partner in an executive search firm, Sato cultivates strong relationships within... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Class Day & Commencement
terrorist attacks of 9/11 took place just days after classes began in 2001,” noted Dean Clark. “The weeks and months that followed were a time of heroism and courage, compassion and inspiration. Everyone in the community — students,... View Details
- December 2002
- Article
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Commentators
By: Lucian Arye Bebchuk, John C. Coates and Guhan Subramanian
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye, John C. Coates, and Guhan Subramanian. "The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Commentators." Stanford Law Review 55, no. 3 (December 2002): 885–917. (Selected by academics as one of the "top ten" articles in corporate/securities law for 2003, out of 450 articles published in that year.)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie