Publications

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

moment of candor, he confided to me, "I hope the new investors will let me slow down. We need to make sure we are building for scale and to do that, I need to be more deliberate in our growth." Like the... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

01 Mar 2012
News

Learning to Speak the Language of Business

Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; e-commerce; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

2019
Report

A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019

By: Michael E. Porter, Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, William R. Kerr and Manjari Raman

In this report, the authors synthesize their views on U.S. competitiveness and unveil the findings of the 2019 HBS surveys on U.S. competitiveness. Specifically, this report—built on the survey findings and eight years of prior research on the competitiveness of the... View Details

Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Competitive Strategy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; United States

02 May 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

Hindu/Muslim conflict. Designed for each computer to be shared by two to three students, the children work with each other with minimal direction from a facilitator. “The stories that have come back are incredible,” Mendhro says. “One of... View Details

02 Jun 2017
News

Britain was once a nation of shopkeepers – it must listen to them again to get Brexit right

Web

Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the Ipswich Library, purchasing the land, donating the first 3,000 volumes, and creating an endowment. 60 “The [library] building is like himself, strong, sturdy, substantial,” John Heard wrote View Details

25 Oct 2018
Podcast

How advanced technology is lifting the business of cranes

Panu Routila, the CEO of Konecranes, which makes port cranes and industrial lifting equipment, discusses how technology is transforming the business of moving many of the things we buy every day. Technologies such as data analytics and virtual reality are not only... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

challenge when building a team. I think that having an MS/MBA would help you reprioritize, balance resources between sales and engineering, and manage both of them simultaneously. I think a huge gap will be... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

penalty to the LGBTQ community, to becoming a non-English speaking 1 -year-old construction worker in the suburbs of Seattle. From being in the 2% female population in my master’s program to being one... View Details

August 2021
Article

A Mixed Methods Study of Change Processes Enabling Effective Transition to Team-based Care

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Emma-Louise Aveling and Sara J. Singer

Team-based care is considered central to achieving value in primary care, yet results of large-scale primary care transformation initiatives have been mixed. We explore how underlying change processes influence the effectiveness of transition to team-based care. We... View Details

Keywords: Team-based Care; Primary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Groups and Teams; Change Management

Web

The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog

Discussing topics that are high stakes, controversial, and emotionally charged Improving storytelling skills Giving and receiving feedback Resolving conflict Communicating under high stress/crisis communication Course Outline The class focuses on View Details

19 Jan 2013
News

Coming Home—A Growing Number of American Companies are Moving their Manufacturing Back to the United States

November 2009
Article

Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

By: Erin Marie Reid and Michael W. Toffel

The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Social Issues; Corporate Disclosure; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics

21 Nov 2017
News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

business world. Yet any entrepreneur can attest to the creative power required to build an organization where none existed before. "Look, I made a hat /Where there never was a hat," sings Georges Seurat in the musical Sunday in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

March 2018
Article

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Rebecca Henderson and Nelson P. Repenning

Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details

Keywords: Capability; Short-termism; System Dynamics; Tipping Point; Business or Company Management; Earnings Management; Resource Allocation