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  • December 2010
  • Case

Oral Rehydration Therapy

By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
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  • Blog

In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

After a long hiatus, HBS programs have started to return to campus. Vicki Good and Lisa Hughes, portfolio directors for the Advanced Management Program (AMP) and the Program for Leadership Development (PLD) respectively, weigh in on the... View Details

    Robin J. Ely

    Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.... View Details

    • May 2013
    • Case

    Wendy Peterson

    By: Linda A. Hill and Alisa Zalosh
    Wendy Peterson was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales at the Plano, Texas, office of AccountBack, an accounting software and services company. To penetrate a perceived market niche, Peterson hires Fred (Xing) Wu, whose familiarity with and access to Chinese... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Conflict Management; Salesforce Management; Rank and Position; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Accounting Industry; Texas
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    • 01 Jul 2010
    • News

    A Message from the Dean

    • 15 Apr 2022
    • News

    Cash House Honors a Prolific Teacher, Author, and Scholar

      Leslie K. John

      Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details

      Keywords: diet services; health care; internet; marketing industry
      • 03 Oct 2012
      • What Do You Think?

      Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

      Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
      • 15 Feb 2000
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

      with a member of the Executive Education staff. EE: How has "Delivering Information Services" evolved in the nearly thirty years it has been taught? Nolan: The course has kept pace with all three... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • March 2024
      • Article

      Human Capital Affects Religious Identity: Causal Evidence from Kenya

      By: Livia Alfonsi, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová and Edward Miguel
      We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over 20 years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that... View Details
      Keywords: Religion; Human Capital; Developing Countries and Economies; Welfare; Kenya
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      • 25 Jul 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

      Editor's note: It has been more than a decade since the publication of The Innovator's Dilemma, in which Clayton M. Christensen introduced the idea of disruptive technologies—those unexpected products and services that shake up the market... View Details
      Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
        • May 2002 (Revised September 2002)
        • Teaching Note

        Creating New Services, Module Overview Note TN

        By: Frances X. Frei
        Taught in Managing Service Operations, an elective course in the Harvard Business School MBA program. Appropriate for any service course or service module within an operations or new product development course that targets MBA or executive education students.... View Details
        Keywords: Service Operations; Product Development; Business Education; Product Positioning
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        • 02 Nov 2021
        • News

        Harvard Business School Professor Alvin J. Silk, Dies at 85

        • December 1999
        • Case

        E-Business at Honeywell International (A): AlliedSignal 1999

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
        AlliedSignal develops its e-business and merges with Honeywell, Inc. Throughout 1999 CEO Larry Bossidy leads activities to educate managers about e-business and the Internet, then requires strategic plans. This case looks at the planning process, barriers, and ideas in... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Executive Education; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Business Model; Change Management; Internet; Industrial Products Industry
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        • Web

        The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

        HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize... View Details

          Robert S. Huckman

          Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Senior Associate Dean for External... View Details

          Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
          • 01 Mar 2012
          • News

          Harvard Business School Opens New Classroom At Taj Lands End, Mumbai

            John Beshears

            John Beshears is the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit, teaching the second-year MBA course "Negotiation." He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... View Details

            • 08 Nov 2019
            • HBS Seminar

            Galit Eizman (Research Associate, Harvard Kennedy School) (paper joint with Alice Ruichen Wang, Renmin Univ, China), Harvard Kennedy School