Mirroring - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

tapped a new pool of workers that were often highly motivated. The pledges made to the W2W Partnership fit existing corporate activities and could become part of an existing business function—in the case of W2W, human resources. The national partnership was View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

02 Jan 2024
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

06 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

longing for. After becoming a mom four years ago, I had spent more time focused on family, and I felt that I needed to allocate more time back to myself. My little one is just like a mirror of myself. I can see that my life journey would... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

In striving to be of benefit to American society and the economy, antitrust has succeeded in mirroring the many-faceted self-contradictions with which Americans view business. That having been said, when one looks at history, there are... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

period—some 31,160 new ventures listed in the NCCS-GuideStar National Nonprofit Research Database, produced by the National Center for Charitable Statistics at the Urban Institute. The findings in this second analysis mirrored the first:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

responses across countries shows that these responses mirror popular sentiment about climate change. For countries whose populations had come to see global warming as a pragmatic collective threat, efforts to promote the reduction of CO2... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

collective research process. In particular we show that the process of creating breakthrough innovations of meanings partially mirrors the process of creating breakthrough technological innovations. Studies of design-driven innovation may... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge

Holyfield and Matkins built their pitch on inclusion and won over city officials who believed the proposal mirrored their own inclusive vision for the city. “I wasn’t sure they’d even made a cup of coffee after talking with them, but they... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Case Study: Moment in the Sun

Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in lighting View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2015
News

The Protagonist Goes Prime Time

reflect together on what we can learn from those shared experiences.” In some ways the multimedia case-writing process mirrors the traditional case-writing process. Buell (MBA 2007, DBA 2012), a professor in the Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

he became the CEO of Second Harvest Heartland. Zeaske’s experience mirrors those of alumni fellows who have benefited over the years from access to meaningful roles and close collaboration with senior leadership in the Leadership Fellows... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

05 Nov 2017
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about SVMP

of the experience. Everything we did mirrored the life of an actual Harvard Business School student. Every morning I woke up in an HBS bed, ate HBS breakfast, and attended class with HBS professors. It was all incredible and surreal. The... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

dredged up negative sentiment, fixing only one or two amplified that feeling, and then telling frontline workers what had been done made it even worse." Ironically, the process improvement approach used in the study mirrors that of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

simulation program that enables a classroom full of students to participate in situations that demand the sort of real-time decisions made in real-world markets. Simulations mirror historical (but disguised) examples, such as Apple... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

01 Oct 2001
News

Making a World of Difference

collaborative — mirrors that which he strives to create through his philanthropic activities. "I believe that in today's world, the corporate executive cannot be of major value unless he or she has the capacity to coexist with... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

09 Mar 2021
News

Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

featuring leaders from a diverse cross section of schools and businesses spanning the country. The case studies profile school leaders confronting a variety of challenges in urban, suburban, and rural public schools, as well as private, faith-based, and charter... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

—JAN RIVKIN SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN “When our cases don’t feature the full range of human talent, we fail all of our students.” —JAN RIVKIN, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN With the REP, the School has made a commitment to developing more cases featuring Black and African American... View Details