Collaboration - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

18 Apr 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Emerging Markets

Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, I collaborated with both private and public sector clients across various industries in Africa, focusing on speeding up private sector growth and thereby contributing to the wider... View Details

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

machine learning tools, says Amano, and employ people who can communicate effectively about data-based approaches. Ultimately, managers who have the foresight to collaborate with data analysts to design data collection efforts and stagger... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

entrepreneurs. “It’s never a one stakeholder story.” Taking this longer view, she says, makes it easier to see beyond clusters as self-contained and localized to their more nuanced role as interactive spaces that foster communication and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

workspaces, airports, health care, education, auditoriums, and conferences. During the pandemic, the company decided to leverage its network of clients to collectively understand how to face the crisis. In collaboration with the HR... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

28 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)

equity and inclusion in business and society. Here, current HBS students share their personal stories about what being first-generation, low-income (FGLI) means to them through a storyboard series organized by Student Association in View Details

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

prospective online learners* Yes No Reimagined the case study method through a proprietary platform featuring courses created by renowned faculty Yes No Collaboration with fellow online learners through unique simulations and interactive... View Details

10 Feb 2016
HBS Seminar

Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

February 2014 (Revised August 2016)
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Strava

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Sid Misra

Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs who have been co-founders in a prior venture, and who have co-founded Strava 3 years ago. The protagonists must... View Details

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What Black Executives Really Want

psychological safety in the workplace. Feeling safe means being able to express yourself, discuss difficult issues, take risks, collaborate freely with others—and even make mistakes—without repercussions. One Black executive found himself... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

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 who successfully complete an HBS... View Details

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

considerably more on strategy and less on operations management. A greater focus on innovation, collaboration and strategy will help guide your company on how and when to pivot. Generate insights about where to pivot In addition to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

in 2019 that nearly 90 percent of 401 organizations it surveyed employed a chief experience officer, a chief customer officer, or an equivalent. To achieve their goals, CXOs often have to bring together elements of an organization that haven’t View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

imperative that real estate practitioners engage in interdisciplinary dialogues to unlock innovative solutions for this housing shortage,” says Dlodlo. “The Cooper Union studio, a rare example of intentional collaboration with a minority... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

December 2019
Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman

This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details

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By: Leslie A. Perlow

There has been tremendous change in the workplace — ubiquitous technology, 24/7 globalization, hyper-efficiency and now significant changes in work location. Professor Perlow’s research explores the implications for the ways we work and live, and what we can do to... View Details

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

each other that the thought of collaboration is never going to cross your minds. Women will come in willing and able and ready, and you're going to lose,' " she remembers. Brandt, one of 38 women in the Class of 1972, says she was... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

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