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  • Career Coach

Ryan Kennedy

Fellowship. Ryan also worked at a social enterprise that offers mortgages and retail banking for low-income populations in the U.S.  Ryan started his career at Bain & Company, which included an externship at the Bridgespan Group. He... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 04 Sep 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: September 4, 2019 - September 25, 2019 View Details
  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 17 Apr 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: April 17, 2019 - May 8, 2019 View Details

    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You

    goals, is the backbone of Brooks’ new book with Oprah Winfrey, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. They weave together the best happiness how-tos from social psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • March 2018
    • Case

    GoFundMe: The Giving Layer of the Internet

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Allison M. Ciechanover
    By 2017, GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising platform. Gross donation volume is growing rapidly, yet the number of monthly campaign starts is relatively flat. The CEO contemplates a variety of growth initiatives. View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Technology Industry
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    • 29 Aug 2017
    • Blog Post

    3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

    It’s hard to believe how quickly a year can fly by. When I first started my RC year at Harvard Business School, I grossly underestimated the advice, "business school is a constant struggle to balance your social life, academics, and... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

    By: Annamaria Conti, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman and Maria P. Roche
    Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Technology Industry
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    • 02 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Role of Government When All Else Fails

    now—at the dawn of the twenty-first century—it is hard to conceive of any more important or pervasive governmental function. The federal government now devotes a larger part of its budget to social insurance (such as unemployment and... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard
    • February 2024
    • Module Note

    Collaborate on the Core, Compete on the Edges

    By: Frank Nagle
    In the rapidly evolving environment of modern business, the digitization of economic activity and the ubiquitous integration of technology across industries are fundamentally altering how companies develop and implement strategy. The rise of digital technologies has... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Competition; Cooperation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      Value Shift

      Today, corporate accountability is as vital to the bottom line as an effective business model.  Value Shift makes a strong case for the merits of corporate responsibility and shows how a value-positive orientation contributes to superior performance through... View Details

      • April 2013
      • Article

      Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World

      By: Nava Ashraf
      Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Zambia
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Inequality in Knowledge Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations

      By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
      To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge sharing networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository (KR)... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Repository; Scaling Service Operations; Fluid Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Performance
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      • Program

      The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

      acquiring and developing creative talent and teams Make optimal business arrangements with talent and talent representatives Respond to advances in digital technology Capitalize on the explosive growth of online distribution channels and... View Details
      Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment
      • Article

      The What and Why of Self-deception

      By: Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton
      Scholars from many disciplines have investigated self-deception, but defining self-deception and establishing its possible benefits have been a matter of heated debate—a debate impoverished by a relative lack of empirical research. Drawing on recent research, we first... View Details
      Keywords: Cognition and Thinking
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      • 26 Apr 2023
      • Cold Call Podcast

      How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter

      Keywords: Re: Debora L. Spar; Pharmaceutical; Medical Devices & Supplies; Health
      • Research Summary

      Research Summary

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      My research has focused on interorganizational relationships, with an emphasis on interfirm strategic alliances, which include voluntary exchange or co-development of products, technologies, or services between firms.  I examine the factors that influence the... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Research Thrust

      By: Rakesh Khurana
      I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
      • 03 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 3

      looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application company launched by former... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne