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Business History - Faculty & Research

Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present... View Details

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

US and unique collaborations with impact investing peers and graduate schools, their mission remains central to their work. Over the past three years, three interns from HBS have joined teams within Bridges Fund Management, working in new business development,... View Details

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

what we have learned so far about the potential and limits of microfinance and how insights from research and practice can help inform the industry's current products, policies and future developments. Initiatives & Projects The Arthur... View Details

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation but has not examined how this affects which View Details

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood of bankruptcy and employee count as well as patent count, publication... View Details

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Faculty & Researchers Faculty & Researchers Project Co-Chairs Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, the co-director of the school’s long-term... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

China, Egypt, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, where much of its future growth would come. They were denied several times but kept the idea alive through other projects until conditions presented themselves. But now that they had secured... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

that workers—even those who lack traditional hiring credentials—should be selective about where they work. And companies looking to attract, retain, and grow talent should make sure they’re giving their workers opportunities to advance,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

2021
Working Paper

Multi-location Workers in Multinational Firms? Tradeoffs in Contextual Specialization of Employees and Organizational Outcomes

By: Hise O. Gibson, Ryan W. Buell and Prithwiraj Choudhury

We study how “contextual specialization,” the act of focusing workers’ organizational tasks within a particular locational context, and “contextual non-specialization,” the practice of diversifying workers’ organizational tasks among multiple locational contexts,... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Performance; Experience and Expertise; Selection and Staffing; Strength and Weakness; Personal Development and Career

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09 May 2016
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What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

hectic. The fall semester is generously sprinkled with job search days (which mean no class on that day). Also, people select their schedules or do Independent Projects so that there’s a chance they don’t... View Details

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Leadership Leadership 2015 Chapter Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Linda A. Hill More than ever, leaders of nearly every kind of organization view their human resources teams... View Details

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Design (14) Product Development (14) Product Launch (5) Product Marketing (33) Product Positioning (5) Production (8) Product (30) Profit (8) Programs (1) Project Finance (3) Projects (2) Property (1) Public... View Details

Robert C. Merton

Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Projects The Business & Environment Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative deepen business leaders’ understanding of today’s environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective solutions. Business & Environment... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

systems to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world's fourth largest dairy cooperative. Finance I Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun Key concepts: Return on Investment, Financial... View Details

05 Dec 2018

Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

their projects to potential investors. (The idea was to determine the effects of envy in a field setting, not whether those feelings affected the chances of winning funding.) Some entrepreneurs listened to what they thought was an audio... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Dec 2017

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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2007

Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

analyzed a year of individual-level data from a North American online grocer to determine how the delay between when a person's order was completed and when it was delivered affected the content of the order. In general, as the delay between order completion and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation

23 Sep 2022

Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

question over 8 weeks. (deadlines in Fall and Spring) Spring/Summer Planning for Second Year Select and register for MBA electives focused on social impact and entrepreneurship. See more on social enterprise courses See more on... View Details

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