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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a global community of peers before, during, and after your course. Learners who successfully complete an HBS Online program will be added to the... View Details

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Philippe Rival

the sharing of different opinions are core to collaborative learning. The result is that no day is ever dull, and every day teaches you something you’d never thought you’d learn! Being part of the HBS community is like Discovering whole... View Details

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

On Facebook and a myriad of other social media platforms, you can find out who your friends are dating, see pictures of their last vacation, and even know what they had for lunch yesterday. It is now becoming more unusual when someone chooses not to divulge their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

the firm, though they do take bold business initiatives. Some firms like Southwest have no long term debt. Southwest self-financed because to grow too quickly would have undermined their ability to hire employees who fit Southwest's View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
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PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients

By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis

PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. The company was founded by Jamie and Ben Heywood when their 29-year-old brother was diagnosed with ALS... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Health Disorders; Knowledge Sharing; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry

June 2008
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Threadless: The Business of Community

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Zahra Kanji

Threadless.com, the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs for t-shirts and... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Apparel and Accessories Industry

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

addition, we encourage you to collaborate with your peers to find answers to any questions you may have. We appreciate your understanding that HBS Online faculty and guest experts featured in our courses are not available to communicate... View Details

January 2021 (Revised October 2021)
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eToro: Building the World's Largest Social Trading Network

By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan

Social trading platform eToro was preparing for the launch of its expanded offering in the U.S. The company faced critical decisions regarding product-market fit, go-to-market strategy, positioning and monetization. Moreover, it faced the challenge of how best to make... View Details

Keywords: Social Trading Platform; Investment; Social and Collaborative Networks; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Digital Platforms

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Service by the Teachers College at Columbia University. Kris Johnson Ferreira : "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

and the Quest for Perfection. Drew Keller Director Drew Keller is the Director of BiGS. He is in charge of setting the direction of the Institute, in collaboration with the Senior Associate Dean, and leads the implementation of BiGS’... View Details

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Phillip Jones

‘professional family.’ It’s a much more collaborative environment than I expected; everyone will make time for you, whether you’re talking about cases or looking for a job.” The strength of the Armed Forces Alumni Association “stood out... View Details

07 Jun 2021
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The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

able to determine the right answer by myself, and I experienced the importance of collaboration when it comes to solving complex and critical business decisions. There is a saying, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

Help Frequently Asked Questions 3ms Accessing Our Services and Training Can I provide a research collaborator access to the HBSGrid? Non-HBS Collaborators of HBS faculty can gain access to the research... View Details

12 Sep 2023
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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

all industries and all countries, but in very different ways. It makes sense that the solutions come from people with such varied lived-experiences, each with a different perspective on potential solutions. How did the Harvard Climate Circle come about? From the... View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

the pandemic. Before they can do either of those things, leaders must leave the past in the past. After they let go of what was, they can use a tool that’s very powerful for corporate introspection. It’s called the CARE framework. Here’s how it works: View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

August 2022 (Revised February 2023)
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NewLab: Scaling an Innovation Engine

By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez

Silicon Valley-veteran Shaun Stewart is the CEO of NewLab, a dynamic technology hub headquartered in the storied Brooklyn Navy Yard. Founded in 2016, NewLab fostered a community of entrepreneurs, corporate and government partners, and investors, all seeking to apply... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Networks; Growth and Development Strategy; Opportunities; Brooklyn

23 Mar 2023
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Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

2025 and carbon net zero by 2050. These goals have been set and communicated by Arla’s central corporate sustainability team in collaboration with sustainability experts embedded throughout other corporate functions. At every step of goal... View Details

August 2022
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Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action

By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen

Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia