Filter Results:
(4,929)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,929)
- People (19)
- News (1,955)
- Research (1,788)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (248)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,929)
- People (19)
- News (1,955)
- Research (1,788)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (13)
- Faculty Publications (248)
- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
tracking near-Earth asteroids. I always thought that I wanted to be remembered for discovering a habitable planet outside our solar system or furthering the understanding of dark energy. But as years passed, I’ve come down to earth. I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Industry By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to the competition. These effects... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
voiced about the term competitiveness more broadly already more than 15 years ago (Krugman, 1994). As an alternative, the note outlines a growth approach in which exports are a diagnostic instrument and the associated policies focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
with the "Decade Award' which is an award for the paper with the most citations 10 years after publication. Mike's 2013 paper, “Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present, and Future” is the winner of the 2023 AMA Decade Award. 2022... View Details
- Web
MBA Program - Alumni
to set up their own fund. These funds require a minimum gift: $250,000 for current-use and $500,000 for endowment. To learn more, please call 617.495.6881 (toll-free: 877.448.3864) or email us . You can also support the MBA Program... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
inside of the courtroom more than once), hip-hop is as much a lifestyle as a musical genre. Yet the company’s spare, functional Times Square offices don’t suggest any of these bad boy qualities — and neither does the genial, relaxed Ferguson. A Bronx native, Ferguson... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
which physicians convene to discuss significant mistakes or unexpected deaths) as a forum for identifying, discussing, and learning from failures. This analysis can only be effective if people speak up openly about what they know and if... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
WHY DID YOU START RESEARCHING BLACK EXECUTIVES? I am not an expert in diversity and inclusion, but I had thought about marginalization, both as a child growing up in India, where I saw the marginalization of some minority groups, and as a... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
in competitive organizations to being one of the only ones in your team or organization with your identity.” That said, choosing to be a team’s token—a member who’s held up superficially as a symbol of diversity—can be isolating and hurt... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
capturing an audience of 56 million viewers. A 60 second spot cost $85,000. Advertisers were hooked from the start. Fast forward to 2019 and the Super Bowl is still one of the most watched events at major network television, but now, women make View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest... View Details
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
basketball, culling a US Department of Education database for individual schools’ reported revenue by sport, which provided, through econometric modeling, a causal link between athletic success and revenue. A Multimillion-Dollar Industry In the 2013-2014 academic View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a... View Details
- Web
CORe Undergraduate Credit | HBS Online
accreditation as all other schools at Harvard. Harvard transfer credit is accepted by institutions around the world, but it is always up to the accepting university to determine transferability. Successful undergraduate credit option... View Details
- Web
Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online
review our additional privacy disclosures that may apply to you. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT AND FROM WHOM We collect information, including personal data, when you sign up for a user account, download an application, participate in our... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details