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26 Feb 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Energy; Utilities

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Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty Member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, has long studied the performance of teams in the workplace. Her latest book is The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

where its unique capabilities will be uniquely valued. Forced to keep its fixed costs low, the new business can serve small customers who would not meet the needs of a high fixed cost structure. Managers in... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

don't be afraid to scrap your 2019 strategies in 2020. Rembrand M. Koning (@orgRem) is an assistant professor of business administration. Karen Mills: Lift small businesses, support the economy For many Main... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

their work.” “Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.” The spy manual struck a chord with Stefan H. Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Jul 2023
News

Home Economics

In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2023
News

Engaging Students More Deeply

impact on a student’s educational experience—even a decision as small as the design of a rug. In the classrooms for younger children at Success Academy, a portion of the floor is covered with a rug divided evenly into squares, with a big... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2015
Blog Post

Building a Startup at HBS

researchers, or product managers – we could use our time at HBS as an opportunity to both launch a product and build a business from scratch. After discussing a number of pain points we had seen in hospitals over the years, we arrived at... View Details

2015
Working Paper

The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee

CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain

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April 2017
Case

Imprimis (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel

This case examines the strategic choices and evolving business model of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals from the perspective of CEO Mark Baum. The (A) case provides a brief history of the company and of the compounding business, outlining the challenges faced by Imprimis in... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Healthcare; Drug Compounding; Pharmaceuticals; Compounding; Drug Development; Decision-making; Mark Baum; Imprimis; Small Business; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Business Strategy; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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Purchase

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

living for a very meaningfully sized community.” The Bodka Creek project embodies everything Beckford envisioned for DLS. As a small boutique firm with limited resources, the company evaluates potential clients and partners based not only... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

considered if the company hadn’t hyped their gender, according to a study by Harvard Business School. Why do these gender appeals alienate the very audience they aim to attract? People resist being categorized—or made to feel like they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

and Dodd Scroll Award from the Financial Analysts Journal for “Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?” (2022) with Aaron Yoon. George Serafeim : Winner of the 2022 Journal of International Business Studies ( JIBS ) Decade... View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

women traverse their stores. In addition, Best Buy acquired Geek Squad to broaden its footprint into installation of equipment. The company applied the same concerted effort toward serving other valuable customer segments it had discovered, including View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly arrived with the rise of big... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Adriann Dolphin

Why did you choose this path at this point in time?business overview that I lacked in my IT work. Sitting in on an HBS case class in 2019 showed me HBS... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and ask the alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

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