Boundary Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

organizations they will work for and the communities they will live in stand to benefit enormously from that kind of background.” “When I talk to current HBS students and recent graduates, they often cite their global immersion trip as... View Details

08 Apr 2015
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Why and how managers should help workers set boundaries

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

Edited by Julia Hanna and Dan Morrell Above: Josh Escher, hard at work as father Peter supervises. (photo by Michael Hanson) The phrase “work-life balance”—that mythical equilibrium between career and family responsibilities—has been... View Details

23 Dec 2019
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The rise of the smartphone and streaming services

15 Oct 2021
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Three Rules for Better Work-Life Balance

06 Mar 2012
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Enhance Your Overseas Experience

25 Mar 2020
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Data-centric business: Inside the artificial intelligence factory

09 Nov 2020
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Best Business Books 2020: Talent and Leadership

30 Aug 2021
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Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

industry boundaries have mostly dissolved, and we have the rise of super competitors like Apple or Microsoft or Amazon. And in that world, the kind of thinking behind the five forces model doesn’t work very... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2017
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A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective

David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

me that listening to patients and families is critical to driving innovation and ultimately, to breaking the boundaries of current therapy,” she says. “For example, their input can help determine which endpoints to measure or how to plan... View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

lending process driven solely by data. Working for Amazon in Seattle at the time, he went to some data-scientist friends armed with 1.2 million Small Business Association (SBA) loan records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food system that respects the... View Details

24 Jun 2016
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Reinventing Pharma

2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of science and business. Following graduation, she joined Novartis,... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

28 Jul 2021
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Squarely in Their Corner

Fox’s entertainment and sports networks and digital properties. “She just demonstrated to me that perfect combination of badass businesswoman and mother,” said Ahuja, the mother of two young sons. “She rarely thinks about boundaries or... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; entrepreneurship; fintech; career; work-life balance; Finance

01 Mar 2018
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Supporting Collaborations Across Harvard

world becomes more interconnected, Harvard needs to work across school lines.” Kew Lee HBS’s collaborations—including with Harvard’s schools of medicine, education, law, government, and engineering—are transcending traditional View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

perfect laboratory to test initiatives designed to improve both. Eager to showcase the country’s strengthened commitment to democracy, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) partnered with Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Dec 2020
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Embrace the Corona-Blur

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong In the “before times,” work stress was something that could be compartmentalized. You left your office at the end of the day and put miles between you and your... View Details

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