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- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)
pivot, layoff, and career choice has underscored for me the importance of planning, learning from mistakes, and leveraging personal experiences to find meaning and purpose. If I had any advice for HBS students today, it would be to look... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
From FIELD to Field, Putting What I’ve Learned at HBS into Practice
“Umm ” The FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) curriculum provided me an incredible opportunity to learn leadership skills not only in the classroom, but also through practical View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases Selection of 'Should' Choices
By: Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests of a deliberative "should" self and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Cognition and Thinking
Rogers, Todd, and Max H. Bazerman. "Future Lock-In: Future Implementation Increases Selection of 'Should' Choices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-038, December 2006. (Revised May 2007, August 2007.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital
By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Investment
Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-070, February 2015. (Revised March 2017, Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics.)
- Web
Entrepreneurship
& Resources For Students For Alumni All Programs & Resources Faculty & Research Our world-class Entrepreneurship faculty are the thought leaders with deep understanding of the startup experience necessary to test, launch, and scale new... View Details
- December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide. During World War II, Levitt was eager to build basic housing for the working class—otherwise, Levitt & Sons would have... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Construction; Business History; Housing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia." Harvard Business School Case 406-062, December 2005. (Revised March 2010.)
- 08 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
A New Way to Recruit
When I was a student at HBS, I spent a lot of time discussing my career with classmates who were interested in learning about my experiences working in venture capital, or as a summer intern at a start-up. HBS coffee chats are a great way... View Details
James K. Sebenius
JAMES K. (“Jim”) SEBENIUS, is the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he founded the Negotiation unit and teaches advanced... View Details
- Program
Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management
you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Demand Estimation in Models of Imperfect Competition
Keywords: by Alexander MacKay and Nathan H. Miller
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details
- April 2024
- Case
Cyrus: Turning a Traditional Business Model on Its Head (A)
By: James Heskett
The loss of the lease at their Michelin-starred Cyrus 1.0 in Sonoma County, California gives the partners an opportunity to shut down and rework a “broken” business model, one with labor intensive experiences six or seven nights a week, high burnout, high... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Retention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leasing; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Loss; Profit; Working Conditions; California
Heskett, James. "Cyrus: Turning a Traditional Business Model on Its Head (A)." Harvard Business School Case 924-303, April 2024.
- August 2020
- Article
Workplace Knowledge Flows
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation and Incentives
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Workplace Knowledge Flows." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020): 1635–1680.
A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties
The strength of weak ties is an influential social-scientific theory that stresses the importance of weak associations (e.g., acquaintance versus close friendship) in influencing the transmission of information through social networks. However, causal tests of... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
- April 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Ping An: Pioneering the New Model of ‘Technology-driven Finance’
By: Feng Zhu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
In mid-December 2018, Peter Ma, Chairman and CEO of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. was considering whether the company should grow a fifth ecosystem of Smart City Services. Established in 1988, Ping An was one of the top 10 global financial... View Details
Keywords: Business Ecosystems; Fintech; Finance; Information Technology; Business Model; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
Zhu, Feng, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ping An: Pioneering the New Model of ‘Technology-driven Finance’." Harvard Business School Case 620-068, April 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- 10 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS FIELD 2 - A good sneak-peek into consulting
One of Harvard’s most interesting experiences during the first year of the MBA is FIELD 2. FIELD 2 is a program where students work in small teams to complete projects for companies operating in emerging economies around the globe. In my... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 05 Jan 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
Keywords: Food & Beverage