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  • 13 May 2014
  • News

Harnessing the Power of Peer Pressure

Keywords: social data; peer pressure; product launch; consumer behavior
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity

marketplace while its people enjoy a high and rising standard of living. Vietor, with HBS collaborator Matthew Weinzierl, associate professor of Business Administration, and Marvin Bower Fellow, has found that US fiscal policy is eroding... View Details
  • Web

Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society

society. Our ultimate goal is to create networks of dedicated leaders who collaboratively identify and implement innovative strategies and business practices. Additionally, these discussions provide valuable insights for our Harvard... View Details
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

With Us or Against Us? Networks, Identity and Order in a Virtual World

By: Magnus Thor Torfason
Social networks and social groups have both been seen as important to discouraging malfeasance and supporting the global pro-social norms that underlie social order, but have typically been treated either as pure substitutes or as having completely independent effects.... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Social Networks; Triadic Closure; Social Groups; Group Identity; Groups and Teams; Boundaries; Organizations; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Societal Protocols
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  • 2012
  • Book

Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
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  • August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
  • Background Note

Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network

By: William R. Kerr and Daniel J. Isenberg
Diaspora networks (DNs) are an important resource for global entrepreneurs. Discusses several features of DNs, combining both academic and practitioner perspectives. Describes the history and prevalence of DNs in many ethnicities, documents the broad resources DNs can... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Markets and Industries; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

rigorous analysis tests them." Rivkin and collaborators A. G. Lafley, Roger Martin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow, recommend combining creativity with the scientific method in an approach where a team representing diverse specialties,... View Details
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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

perspective, is designed for students at Harvard as well as a platform for educational institutions and locally trained professors to teach the course around the world. The MOC Affiliate Network is an international group of educational institutions that teach the MOC... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

security, and access to health care. Crespin calls these concerns “problems in the commons,” that is, issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes View Details
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

inventive activity in the economy. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Collaborating Across Cultures: Cultural Metacognition and Affect-Based Trust in Creative Collaboration Authors:Roy Y.J. Chua,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

and trash bins. People who use these bins also feel happier compared to those who don't, and they feel closer to the people they imagine being recipients of their unwanted items. The collaborative process Grant: When coming to HBS, I... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

operations into biogas (renewable natural gas). Key Takeaways: Crisis Times, Regulation and Collaboration One of our biggest takeaways from this visit was the extent to which the current European energy crisis altered the payback periods... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

Harvard University President Drew Faust as part of the announcement of Bloomberg’s $32 million gift to the Harvard Kennedy School to form a City Leadership Initiative in collaboration with HBS. As many as 300 mayors and 400 top mayoral... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers

Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the... View Details
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Why Pursue a PHD at Harvard Business School

Pursuing a PhD at Harvard Business School (HBS) provides you with unique opportunities and resources, including guaranteed funding, top tier support for teaching and writing, collaboration opportunities with faculty at HBS and departments... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2021
  • News

A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic

wave in April. —Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169) chairman, 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Using an app called Pune Platform for Covid Resonse (PPCR), businesses and community organizations including Lighthouse are able to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
  • January 2022 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Steem Versus Hive: Testing Blockchain Governance

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This case examines a pivotal governance conflict that occurred in 2020 when Justin Sun, founder of the TRON blockchain, acquired Steemit Inc., the company behind a popular social media platform operating on the Steem blockchain. Steem, launched in 2016 by Daniel... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Mergers and Acquisitions; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Governance; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Industry
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Systems of distributed innovation—so-called business ecosystems—have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Innovation and Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Intellectual Property; Rights; Governance Controls
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