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16 Nov 2010
News

The HBS Tunnels

startled by coming across homeless people sleeping in the Weeks footbridge tunnel. If you remember some facet of tunnel life not mentioned here, by all means tell us about it. Many thanks from an innocuous tunnel interloper. View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

not just that one person is both talking and listening, it means that there is a real sort of back and forth where the act of listening actually changes what you think and say," Slind explains. "As your company gets larger, that gets more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

I am becoming. The power of that memoir title never really hit me until I sat to write this blog post. I don’t mean to quote Michelle Obama in making that statement (I mean there are definitely worse people... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter and University of British Columbia professor Lorne A. Whitehead teach how to... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

own." Unfortunately, lean's prevalence has led to some misconceptions. "Some people think lean means 'not fat,' as in laying people off," Upton says, noting that in their paper they propose that the difference in a lean... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

who want to push performance very strongly shouldn’t expect employees to engage in extra-role behavior as much,” Gallani says. “There is a little bit of a tradeoff between pay for performance and extra-role behaviors, such as innovation.” You Might Also Like: What If... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

develop a wide range of entrepreneurial skills to build a successful business. Go To Article How are Innovation and Entrepreneurship Connected? Innovation is a unique and valuable product, service, business model, or strategy. It can be disruptive or sustaining , View Details

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

first helps leaders take ideas from anywhere if those ideas are useful. Including getting ideas from well outside the usual building. Silverthorne: You use the term “advanced leadership” often in the book. What does it mean and how does... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
Blog Post

How to Fit in at HBS

shared the fact that my parent’s story taught me the value of perseverance, humility, and hard work and I confessed that my graduation from Georgetown had crystalized the meaning of hope and joy, the pinnacle of which I later experienced... View Details

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

than, press coverage. Selfies with Ford carried the incidental meaning that he was one of the people, a fun-loving regular guy. He began to make himself selfie-friendly. “The challenge that brands encounter is that their involvement could... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

installation/repair is $3K/home [16,17]. Electrical paneling: Electrification of the home requires 100-200A of electrical service, meaning most homes will need some type of electrical infrastructure upgrade. According to a study conducted... View Details

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

insensitivity to others.” Power fallacies According to the authors, “three pernicious fallacies” surround the topic of power. People often assume that power is something a person possesses, such as monetary fortunes and personality traits; or that it’s “positional”... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Web

Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

automatically when you advance the film for the next picture. . . . You can have your pictures when they mean the most. You can share and enjoy the pictures together with others in the pictures." 76 Users also had the benefit of... View Details

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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Unidentified Industries Ratios Over Time Show Hide Details Concepts Examining the Balance Sheet Utilizing Ratios Finding Meaning Case: Unidentified Industries Comparisons Featured Exercises Categorize financial ratios DuPont Analysis... View Details

09 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

Winning in a negotiation doesn't necessarily mean that the other party needs to lose. On the contrary, most successful negotiations entail the possibility of mutual value creation, compatible if not aligned interests, and cooperation. In... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

capitalism there is a place for government, and economists, in the capitalistic system, but in this case less is more." Gerald Nanninga suggested that we "limit government's role to defining capitalistic criminal activity and the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

manager in the video game industry. For me, it's the perfect combination of an empathetic understanding of the gaming customer, a medium to enable the strength of others, and a way to foster my love for computer science. My second year has focused on the View Details

29 Aug 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Patent Trolls

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Scott Duke Kominers

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Course Development

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

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