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- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
stores to 2,227. This surprising resurgence piqued the interest of Ryan Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who studies how mature organizations...
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Accounting & Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Programs Faculty from the Accounting and Management unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found...
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Meet The HBS African American Student Union - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States 05 Jan 2024 Meet The HBS African American Student Union Kristen Shipley, Nahum Seifeselassie, Jada Haynes & AASU Author MBA Students tag Clubs Diverse Perspectives Student Life Founded in...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808011 Tascot Ties Harvard Business School Case 808-082 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due...
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- December 2005 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Canyon Johnson Urban Fund
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Alexa Arena
Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson and K. Robert Turner, managing partner of Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (CJUF), raised $271.7 million for investments in urban real estate. The fund considered two projects, both located in Hollywood, CA. The first was located on...
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Investment;
Projects;
Business and Government Relations;
Public Opinion;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
Los Angeles
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Alexa Arena. "Canyon Johnson Urban Fund." Harvard Business School Case 706-442, December 2005. (Revised September 2007.)
- June 2010
- Article
Leadership Competencies for Implementing Planned Organizational Change
By: Julie Battilana, Mattia Gilmartin, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Jeffrey A. Alexander
This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change literatures by exploring the relationship between managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the...
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Leadership;
Competency and Skills;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Planning;
Relationships;
Business Processes;
Projects;
Theory;
Change;
Behavior;
Health Industry;
United Kingdom
Battilana, Julie, Mattia Gilmartin, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul, and Jeffrey A. Alexander. "Leadership Competencies for Implementing Planned Organizational Change." Leadership Quarterly 21, no. 3 (June 2010).
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Reunions 2023 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when...
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Soltan Bryce
The evolution of Soltan Bryce’s early career path – health care and agriculture – have their roots in his experiences as a Palestinian refugee in rural North Carolina. “The first health care we received in the United States was from the...
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- June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build...
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Values;
Agile;
Vision;
Corporate Culture;
Leadership;
Values and Beliefs;
Organizational Culture;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Digital Transformation;
Technology Industry;
United States;
California
Neeley, Tsedal, Paul Leonardi, and Michael Norris. "Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)." Harvard Business School Case 419-066, June 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Prices in the United States rose at the fastest pace in four decades in January,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 14 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity
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by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
October 2023, news broke that filming of the book would begin in fall 2024, backed by Anonymous Content, the US production company behind Spotlight and The Revenant, and Korea’s Anthology Studios. Deeply personal and highly autobiographical, Offerings tells the story...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore Citation Educators Related Gompers,...
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PRIMO Alumni Profiles - Doctoral
Mathematics. They worked with Professor Matt Weinzierl in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit during PRIMO Summer 2019. Jo started their PhD Program in Fall 2022 in the Business...
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- February 2005 (Revised November 2012)
- Supplement
UAL 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy (CW)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Kenneth A. Froot and Darren Robert Smart
UAL is a large air transportation company with roots that go back to the 1920s. As a legacy carrier, going back to before the 1978 deregulation of air transportation markets, United Airlines is burdened with cost structures that make it difficult to compete with newer...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization
Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the largest private economic forecasting agency in the period and published a great range of economic statistics in his weekly newsletters. As...
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- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
way? A group of researchers recently considered that idea in a new study, concluding that variety is a crucial ingredient. “We wanted to examine what would be the optimal mix of people to talk to over any time period,” says Harvard View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife...
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