Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2024
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What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

That’s not a bad yardstick for decision-making in the happiness business. Most of us would probably agree that “what’s enough” should be a bit of a stretch but achievable. For... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2013
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view, the fact remains that an effective conversation about sustainability requires the participation of both sides of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2012
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What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

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Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

medium-to-strong community structures. Convention networks, which feature high network connectedness and weak community structures, were not evident among the empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

One year after the implementation of the new system, TDABC analysis demonstrated cost savings of 19% and a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

After graduating at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, Chloe Ho (MBA 2019) began her post-undergrad career in New York working for Morgan Stanley. While there, she served in a strategy and analytics... View Details

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High Potentials Leadership Program

eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Focused on developing high potential leaders, this program prepares you to embrace the risks and... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

29 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Celebrates Pride Month

parties and parades. It's a time of year when I'm extra likely to see rainbow merchandise, LGBTQ+ themed events, and messages of love for my View Details

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Admissions & Financial Aid - MBA

be hosted in the HBS application system. 1 Written Application Create an HBS account and start an application . This HBS account will be the single source of View Details

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Joint Degree Programs - MBA

Dental Medicine We partner with HSDM to offer the DMD/MBA. Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences We partner with SEAS to offer the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

Elizabeth Murray A panel of distinguished historians offered interesting perspectives on the evolution of entrepreneurial women in the U.S. View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums... View Details

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and View Details

08 Mar 2018
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10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Abstract—Executive development programs have entered a period of disruption catalyzed by the digitalization of content, connectivity, and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

September 2015
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GovDelivery

By: Mitchell Weiss

Is government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off... View Details

Keywords: GovDelivery; Public Entrepreneurship; B2G; Business-to-Government; Scott Burns; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Venture Capital; Information Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Web Services Industry; Minnesota; United States

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Design Driven Innovation

By: Roberto Verganti

Firms, managers and scholars have often balanced between two approaches to innovation: user centered (where incremental innovation is pulled by the market) and technology push (where innovation comes from breakthrough development in technologies). However there is a... View Details

26 Jun 2020
Blog Post

(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals

dwindled, PPEople First became a way for all of us contribute to the community in a meaningful way. Each order we placed and each delivery we dropped off we saw immediately put... View Details

W. Earl Sasser

Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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