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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and popular traveling medicine shows that hired both Native and non-Native performers to peddle their products. They even had plans to build a store, which never materialized, where a performer would stir a large kettle of “Sagwa” on display. These marketing strategies...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
informal Twitter pollI recently conducted, 56 percent of entrepreneurs who responded said their most common ask of their investors is for hiring help. Second to that (31 percent) are asks for introductions to potential partners or...
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by Julia Austin
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
height, so we can redistribute income without hurting incentives by using tags. My research with [Harvard economist] Greg Mankiw, which has also been profiled in a Working Knowledge Q&A, develops this point in detail. Q: Your new...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
ordinary managers. In The Innovator's DNA, the authors identify five capabilities demonstrated by the best innovators: (1) Associating: drawing connections between questions, problems, or ideas from unrelated fields; (2) Questioning: posing queries that challenge View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
many cases drifting from their original intent of making management a profession, with a commitment to using a body of knowledge for the good of society. “The university-based business school of today is a troubled institution, one that...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
called on. Now, talking in class without any knowledge was an HBS art form, and I was prepared to go on at length about a subject—pricing cars at GM—of which I had no knowledge. But suddenly I felt enraged and my inner voice said, "What...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar...
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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
game-theoretical agent-based models to explore group genesis in homogeneous populations and find robust group formation with just two basic principles: reciprocity and transitivity. These emergent groups demonstrate in-group cooperation and out-group defection, even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
creative leadership. I think overall it was incredibly important for the students. One topic in class was the quartet's whole apprenticeship under Sir Clifford Curzon. In a lot of business contexts, because there's so much tacit knowledge...
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- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research By: Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on hybrids by bringing together work from these multiple perspectives;...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the past fifteen years of the contest, it's extraordinary." The Art Of The Pivot A few common experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brûlée or online video...
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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. He also offers HBS Working...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
the Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff–MBA Class of 1955 chair. “In reality, there’s often an inverse correlation between those two things. Having said that, if you look at the quality of ideas that have converted into real businesses over the past fifteen years of the contest,...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
like, in your automobile, you have airbags and seat belts. So if you hit a tree today, you walk away from it. If you’d hit a tree 30 years ago, you wouldn’t. Networks had never been built with resilience in mind. They were just built very quickly [over] the last 30...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
colleges. So 90 percent of the top 500 universities in the country, they now use Handshake. And so what that enables is, by aggregating all these fragmented institutions onto a common platform, you reduce the barrier to entry to connect...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
show that the combination of preference for variety and consumption complementarities gives rise to (i) a commons problem (to better satisfy their individual preference for variety, users have an incentive to consume more applications...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
evolution of the industry through the introduction of key service elements like flight attendants, in-flight meals, and loyalty programs. Each of these service elements, which are common today, was introduced as a key differentiator by a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
principally on Fiverr and contingent work for their incomes, as opposed to having the so-called “side hustle,” which seems to be very, very common among 20- and 30-year-olds?Kaufman: We absolutely track this data. So we see a combination...
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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from...
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Dina Gerdeman