Publications

11 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

economies. Based on the overwhelming success of our event, which was a great example of collaboration with Alumni Relations and the Club of London, and BEI and SEI, it is clear that the topics of climate and impact will be a central,... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

impacts of such initiatives. As a platform for knowledge exchange, networking, and collaboration among experts, policymakers, and stakeholders, Lootah says the Crossroads Forum—now in its fourth year— holds significant potential to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

June 2022 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Strategic Innovation at the United Nations: A Network of Ecosystems

By: Frank Nagle, Elizabeth J. Altman and Amy Klopfenstein

In 2021, Gina Lucarelli, leader of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Accelerator Labs, prepared for a meeting with UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner. The two planned to discuss the future of the Accelerator Labs, a network of social innovation labs located... View Details

Keywords: Change; Disruption; Transformation; Change Management; Education; Learning; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Local Range; Geopolitical Units; Country; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Information Technology; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Psychology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Society; Social Issues; Welfare; Strategy; Cooperation; Adaptation; Public Administration Industry; North and Central America

Web

Global Business Course | HBS Online

animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by 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... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

solutions. Most importantly, the humility to learn from others To be effective in my role, I relied significantly on the wisdom, knowledge, and experience of others. Among others, this included technicians, peers, and suppliers. I am always amazed at how much I can... View Details

March 2017
Case

Intellectual Ambition at Harvard Business School: Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Amram Migdal

This case, set in the 1920s and 1930s, discusses the contributions of Harvard Business School (HBS) Professors Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger to management research and to the Human Relations Movement in management scholarship. The case focuses on their research... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Innovation Outside the Boundaries

Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) “one of the most interesting examples of innovations that encourage students to take advantage of the breadth of Harvard’s offerings. Whether it’s in collaboration with SEAS, the Kennedy School, or... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

‘sustainability’ or ‘climate’ does not need to be in your job title for it to be incorporated into your work. They stressed that achieving the pace of transformation needed to decarbonize our economy will require collaboration across all... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

insurance conglomerate. He left a legacy of openness to new technologies, a commitment to employee training, and a collaborative style of leadership that had transformed the company. His success at USAA followed an equally impressive and... View Details

March 2018 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Edward Lewis: Essence Magazine

By: Steven Rogers and Jacqueline Adams

Essence, the first magazine aimed at African-American women, was created by four, young, Black entrepreneurs in the aftermath of massive racial and political upheaval in the United States in 1968. The venture was a financial, branding and cultural success. By 2005, the... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

“The course is a laboratory for us to innovate,” Perlow observes. “It is constantly evolving, like life itself.” She adds that even its design was novel compared to the traditional, multistep process of developing new courses at HBS. In addition to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

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

version. Further along, Musk wants to land people on Mars. Long-term NASA partner Boeing continues work on its CST-100 Starliner commercial orbiter, and the rocket manufacturer is collaborating with NASA on human commercial flights to the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

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Judges - Alumni

start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups across a range of areas... View Details

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

synchronous sessions with a combination of HBS faculty, social impact practitioners, and alumni to discuss cross-sector topics. Each session will be interactive with opportunities to collaborate with other HBS alumni on problem solving,... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

concerns—who might be interested in collaborating to make change. Then together, explore how existing work practices may compromise both equity and effectiveness; design small, local experiments to change these practices; monitor the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

August 2014
Case

Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Wesley M. Cohen, Kynon Ingram, Tushar Kothalkar, Maxim Kuzemchenko, Santosh Malik, Cynthia Meyn, Greta Friar and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa

In 2006, Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, was looking for a way to solve Netflix's customer churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Prizes; Digitization; Algorithms; Recommendation Software; Disruption; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; United States