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  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2016
  • News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

Photography by Susan Young Even though government spending and philanthropic capital are powerful tools for helping people improve their lives and rise out of poverty, there are still problems with them. Regular infusions of outside... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Managing the Map

precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

In early April, nearly ninety HBS faculty members came together for a half-day symposium on “Strategy, Values, and Governance in the Rise and Fall of Enron.” Organized by the School's Division of Research... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • June 2013 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Estonia: Transition, EU Membership, and the Euro

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian Ketels and Örjan Sölvell
The case discusses the economic development of Estonia, covering specifically the period from regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 until 2015. It tracks the process from the initial transition towards a market economy to becoming an EU member country,... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Estonia
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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio) Conard... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

impact on the organizations they lead. Hunting the High-Impact Leader From Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter By Gautam Mukunda In the middle of May 1860, delegates to the Republican National Convention met in Chicago to choose the... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • News

Finding Common Ground

only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

It was excerpted from the authors' article "Pricing to Create Shared Value" in the June 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • November 2010
  • Technical Note

Technical Note: An Abridged History of the American Corporation

By: Rakesh Khurana, Andrew David Klaber and Eric Baldwin
This note examines the development of the corporate form in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on legal issues. It identifies several major trends in the history of the American corporation: the transition of corporations... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Accountability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; History; Code Law; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Ownership; United States
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  • 17 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

What to Expect from your First Week at HBS

each other.  The Surprises in Store  The social experience really stands out to me. I’m consistently surprised at the how many events are taking place both formally and informally. Beyond the HBS sponsored events, students are taking the initiative to View Details
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Competitive Advantage
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  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations),... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 06 May 2015
  • News

The importance of being a mentor

Throughout her career in the public and private sectors, Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967) has seen both sides of the power of mentorship. (Published May 2015) View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

stakeholders at an HBS workshop last week. Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance measures into a report that can be presented and used both online and on paper, giving... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems from his extensive research on... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

recognized the opportunity—and necessity—to use their research to help leaders, companies, organizations, and governments navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic. This meant not only extending and reframing their research, but also... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2008
  • What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

may not lead us to the greatest common good ... without government action(s).... These might take the form of incentives." Richard Eckel expanded on this idea, saying that "To suggest that for-profits embody any form of moral... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett