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- 6 PM – 8 PM CDT, 04 Jun 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Nashville: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM MDT, 01 May 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Salt Lake City: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- July 2018
- Article
Global Collaborative Patents
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Ethnic Networks;
Migration;
Technology Transfer;
Mobility;
Information Technology;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Diasporas;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
Entrepreneurship;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Globalization;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Global Collaborative Patents." Economic Journal 128, no. 612 (July 2018): F235–F272.
- 6 PM – 8 PM PDT, 09 Jul 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in San Francisco: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM CDT, 11 Jun 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Minneapolis: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM PDT, 23 May 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Los Angeles: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM PDT, 29 Apr 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Seattle: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 09 May 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Cincinnati: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 6 PM – 8 PM EDT, 08 May 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Columbus: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life.
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- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Dec 2019
- Webinars: Career
From Private Equity to Private Debt: Key Trends in Alternative Investments
Private equity industry has expanded substantially to include new strategies, new players, and new funding models. Professor Victoria Ivashina will explore new trends, limits to disintermediation, growth potential, and what to keep in mind if you are exploring these...
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- August 28, 2018
- Article
How Intermittent Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence
By: Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such social influence introduces both benefits (higher average solution quality due to exploitation of existing answers through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a...
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Keywords:
Transparency;
Social Influence;
Collective Intelligence;
Interaction;
Problem Solving;
Collaboration;
Intermittant;
Breaks;
Always On;
Communication Technologies;
Communication;
Design;
Information;
Management;
Leadership;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Performance;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Information Technology
Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer. "How Intermittent Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 35 (August 28, 2018).
- March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Philips Lighting: Light-as-a-Service
By: Mark R. Kramer, Thijs Geradts and Bhanuteja Nadella
As LEDs with a 25-year lifespan replace incandescent lightbulbs, Philips Lighting faced major disruption and began to explore a new shared value business model of selling light as a service. Although it offers better profit margins and a reduced environmental...
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Keywords:
Disruptive Innovation;
Business Model;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy
Kramer, Mark R., Thijs Geradts, and Bhanuteja Nadella. "Philips Lighting: Light-as-a-Service." Harvard Business School Case 719-446, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
Trung Nguyen
Trung Nguyen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting & Management Unit. She teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Nguyen’s research interests include financial... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,...
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- 2015
- Working Paper
Toxic Workers
By: Michael Housman and Dylan Minor
While there has been a strong focus in past research on discovering and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been paid to the question of how to manage those workers on the opposite side of the spectrum: those who are harmful to organizational...
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Keywords:
Strategic Human Resource Management;
Misconduct;
Worker Productivity;
Superstar;
Ethics;
Performance Productivity;
Personal Characteristics;
Employees
Housman, Michael, and Dylan Minor. "Toxic Workers." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-057, October 2015. (Revised November 2015.)
- February 2011
- Case
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
This case allows instructors to explore shareholder value creation and transfer opportunities in merger and acquisition transactions. It also invites an examination of corporate governance issues surrounding CEO compensation. This case is quite brief (a total of 4...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Corporate Governance;
Executive Compensation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Value Creation
Fruhan, William E. "Stanley Black & Decker, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 211-067, February 2011.
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system...
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by Martha Lagace
- January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data
By: Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
This case introduces a new Amazon program that has consumers upload their receipts from transactions outside of Amazon, in exchange for money. Through the discussion, the case aims to explore issues in customers’ privacy in the digital age, the value of customers’ own...
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Keywords:
Data Analytics;
Data Privacy;
Data Management;
"Marketing Analytics";
Marketing Communication;
Marketing Research;
Data-driven Management;
E-Commerce Strategy;
Ethical Decision Making;
CRM;
Consumer Protection;
Targeted Advertising;
Targeted Policies;
Data Ownership;
Marketing;
Research;
Marketing Communications;
Analytics and Data Science;
Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Ethics;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States
Ascarza, Eva, and Ayelet Israeli. "Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data." Harvard Business School Case 521-058, January 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
Erin Shirtz
Erin Shirtz is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research broadly examines... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Blog Post
Five Ways to Build Community at HBS
When I was admitted to HBS on December 9, 2021, I was so excited that I flew to Boston the next day to spend the weekend exploring the city, and visualizing what this next chapter in my life could mean for...
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