Creating Connections - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Sep 2018
News

Moving Pictures

about where he keeps his Oscar (in the living room, over the TV). He was probably thinking about something else. Awards are great, but they aren’t the point. For Singer, the stakes are higher: to create socially relevant movies that sell... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

generate cash very quickly. So Jobs' first great attribute was extreme focus. There is a window right now for a desktop alternative to Microsoft in many markets around the world.— David Yoffie Number two; he went back to creating sizzle... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler... View Details

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Online AI Course | HBS Online

roles to build an AI-powered organization Learn how generative AI connects to your organization and its impact on business and operating models Who Will Benefit Business Professionals Current and Aspiring Leaders Functional Specialists... View Details

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

the campaign to make India open-defecation-free connects with a growing trend in green finance. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Naina, when you were leading HSBC, you had the opportunity to represent the bank at conferences, touching on issues... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor Howard Stevenson and then Lecturer William J. Poorvu were busy View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

illuminating the strong spiritual, cultural, and economic connections that once existed between corn and indigenous people. At the same time, Keen and his students were brainstorming potential directions for what would become Sacred Seed.... View Details

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

you’re interested in and find ways to connect with them. When you meet, articulate how you can contribute; engage your interviewers about their work; and offer expertise, advice, or contacts with no expectation of reciprocity. Suddenly... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

at times of low market liquidity. We provide evidence suggesting that mutual funds’ cash holdings are not large enough to fully mitigate price impact externalities created by the liquidity transformation they engage in. Download working... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

Strategy Personal Case Project Featured Exercises Evaluate a company’s culture through a culture exercise Reflect on the values, norms, and behaviors that constitute culture Diagnose your company’s culture by connecting the LEASH model to... View Details

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

by: Adopting new routines and rituals. The foundation of CEOs’ self-care was to replace the “lost structure” of the workday. One shared that “a daily routine for myself and supporting the family took longer to create and to put in place... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

documenting the destruction of documents,” Elkins says. “For every file that was destroyed, they created a special document destruction certificate, in duplicate, one to be left in Kenya, one to go back to London.” The British government... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

Q: What sorts of questions should managers at Vectus or other PRT businesses ask themselves going forward? A: I'm convinced that PRT creates huge value—reducing automobile congestion, and getting passengers to their desired destinations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

things conclusively, however. There's a great quote from the novelist E.M. Forster: "Only connect." A lot of history is like that. Only connect the facts and circumstances that have not yet occurred to other scholars in the same... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

in connection with various conferences . I've done video for a CD and things like that, but an online course, no. SS: The HBS teaching environment, the case method, is very high energy with lots of interaction. But the online environment... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

partnering with corporations and entrepreneurs to unveil parking apps, bike-sharing programs, and Wi-Fi networks in greener, more vibrant, more connected cities. And we learn about much-needed efforts to reduce our dependence on the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Technology Ventures . In past years, he served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the 2nd year of the MBA Program—and as course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 1st-year MBAs. With colleagues, Eisenmann has View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

investors), creating philanthropic endeavors and single-mindedly pursuing her dream of building an empire, taking it public, and cashing out all the investors. Corporate and Family Governance: The Two Disciplines That Carry Family... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

colonialism, European integration, and violent territorial expansion within Europe itself. Using the debate as a lens to understand the connections between a wide range of policy responses, this article argues that efforts to... View Details