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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
seemed to me that it didn't do me any good to take pity on myself or to say, woe is me. I just kept saying, what's next. And how am I going to get through this? So I developed a survivor mentality. And the moral compass really in those days, between the nuns and the...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Straus Professor of Business Administration MIT Press Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of...
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- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
(especially chess). Favorite movies are Moana and Frozen. What has been the best part of being a mom at HBS? Always having the sweetest cuddles as soon as you get home! But also, the ability to prioritize time at home without as much...
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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
Starting a job can feel like stepping onto a movie set without a script. Everyone knows the plot; the challenge is figuring out the role. Managers often know what they want from top performers but rarely explain it. That perspective...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
represents what actually gets done. Strategic integrity is when emergent and directed strategies are one and the same thing: when the strategy executes with the full, aligned backing of the organization for maximum impact. When a strategy lacks integrity it's like...
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- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
from the most extreme want to the most extreme should movie increasing the odds of a preference reversal by 10%. Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held significantly longer than want DVDs. Our study ties together...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
movie actor. You can still deliver a great performance but in a different way. DL: I just think that there are preferences that people have that would drive them, one way or the other, whether online or in the classroom. SS: You said that...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Reinvention of Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and the “Kodak Moment”) and supplying...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
the 1930s, for example, per-person movie ticket sales were seven times higher than at the end of the 1990s. Fox Photos/Getty Images In the sweep of U.S. history, consumption had been a force for great change. Much of this change played...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
be able to help,” Walsh said. It’s not quite what is portrayed in movies such as Iron Man, where ordinary people are given superhuman strength. “From an engineering point of view, this is extremely hard Soft wearable robots don’t give...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
a massage, a dinner with a friend, whatever. And she's watching both kids while I go out for something similar. Honestly, I'm an awesome dad the day before I have my NNO and the day after because I'm like energized by just even going to a View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape, a team of IDEO designers has been hired by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
success? A: To answer that, I shall use the words of a founder I interviewed: "Clients want to work with New York agencies, just like you would want to make a movie in Hollywood, not in Toledo." Thus, some locations have...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and equipment to major View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-100 Raj Kapoor: The Socialist Showman This case examines the career of Raj Kapoor, the legendary Bollywood filmmaker of the postwar decades. It explores how Kapoor built RK studios...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local Motors launched on March 25,...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
outbreak, most public figures in South Korea, including its politicians, business and religious leaders, and even movie stars, have, for the most part, worn face masks in public. Imposing a fine for noncompliance will likely change...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a "tent-pole" movie the best way to capitalize on Gaga's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
college campuses and other venues concerned with shootings? Should SST adapt the hardware and the software for indoor applications, like shopping malls and movie theaters? Was the next step in the company’s growth a move towards citywide...
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Sean Silverthorne