natural resources - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

down leads and making personal visits with potential clients. They also spend considerable resources in traditional marketing, especially the large firms. Those setup costs must be recovered over time through fees. Wealthfront keeps those... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

given their immense differences; an economics group at Amherst College is using our dataset to find links between COVID responses and rugged individualism; and Emory University epidemiologists are using the dataset to perform natural... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

knowledge, is now being embedded into the tools and building blocks used to make products? Willy Shih: Knowledge is one of the core resources in a company, and translating that knowledge into processes that produce products and services... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

we discern four central criticisms of corporate social responsibility. When companies engage in socially responsible practices, the first concern is that managers will misappropriate corporate resources by diverting them from their... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

the design process and to approve the school's design. In the natural resources literature, commons theory predicts that, if a robust governance structure is created, this complex form of organizing gives... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

extending beyond both self-reliance and partnership - that he termed "organized chaos." "The partnership business model is to leverage your skills and resources by taking advantage of those that a few identified partners possess," Zschau... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

billion in the IRA to advance decarbonization in these sectors is a critical step to mobilize our national resources to accelerate the development and commercialization of both new and existing technologies that can get us to net zero by... View Details

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between controlling the startup and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Resource Management Review Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

peer-reviewed and practitioner journals. Dr. Guinan is one of our co-directors at LISH and she is a professor in radiation oncology at HMS and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Part of the lab’s mission is to address problems with real-world applications. This project... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

to use its limited resources focusing on Home Depot or find a new target to forward their cause. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407097 Apollo Hospitals—First-World Health Care at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

importance of these effects depends on the nature of the innovation problem being solved. The analysis uses data from TopCoder's software contest platform, on which elite software developers were assigned different problems to solve... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

and I had collaborated "telepathically" for years. I'd always liked John's perspective on leadership, and I think he more or less appreciated what I was doing, so our working together to develop this course was a natural... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

the organizational structures and routines for accountability, collaboration, and initiative. External confidence: This is confidence that external stakeholders, based on their positive expectations produced by the previous three levels of confidence, will invest to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

rather than the opposite. So to the extent that we can inform women about situations in which they should be hypersensitive to opportunities for claiming resources and claiming authority, then they might be more likely to do so and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

Pro-self? Furthermore, Santana borrowed a concept from strategic games and socially interdependent decision-making that divides people based on their "social value orientation" (SVO). When faced with a decision on how to allocate View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

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