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  • September 2013
  • Article

Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health

By: Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton
Objective: This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment in a large corporation in which we introduced walkstations (treadmills... View Details
Keywords: Information; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health; Health Industry
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  • June 2010
  • Article

The Circulation of Ideas across Academic Communities: When Locals Re-import Exported Ideas

By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Metin Sengul
The circulation of ideas across academic communities is central to academic pursuits and has attracted much past scholarly attention. As North American-based scholars with European ties, we decided to examine the impact of Organization Studies in North American... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Dissemination; Organizational Structure; Learning; Archives; Civil Society or Community; North and Central America; Europe
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  • 17 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari
  • March 27, 2017
  • Article

How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amir Peleg
Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But a bigger and more impactful trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Utilities Industry
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  • April 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Music Industry and the Internet, The

By: Bharat N. Anand and Estelle S. Cantillon
Discusses the impact of the Internet on the music industry from 1990 through 2003. Discusses the technology, new business models, and record companies' moves. Provides the necessary background to discuss such matters as well as to assess the strategies of the five... View Details
Keywords: Internet; Music Industry
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  • 29 Sep 2014
  • News

Inflation Data in the U.S. Is Built Around a Survey that People Increasingly Won’t Take

  • 08 Jun 2022
  • News

Embracing a Digital Approach

  • 21 Oct 2020
  • News

Trump ban on visas cost the US economy $100 billion: Study

  • 08 Jun 2020
  • News

Tenants and Investors Will Be Looking for Healthy Buildings

  • 25 Oct 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Professor Richard Rosenbloom Dies at 78

  • 25 Jan 2020
  • News

HBS Online Will Keep Changing the Game. Here’s How

  • 24 Jan 2020
  • News

Lawmakers Weighing Options on Handgun Waiting Period

  • 30 May 2019
  • News

How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

The influence of a nation's history, infrastructure, and culture permeates all aspects of life within the country, including the norms, values, and behaviors of managers in its national companies. Nationally influenced behavioral characteristics become an ingrained... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 2010
  • Casebook

Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship

Based on a popular education entrepreneurship course at Harvard Business School, Transforming Public Education organizes 18 case studies into modules that reflect the predominant opportunities pursued by social entrepreneurs focused on public education in the United... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Transformation
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  • March 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

KiOR: Catalyzing Clean Energy

By: Ramana Nanda and Toby E. Stuart
Biofuels start-up KiOR was developing a proprietary technology that had the potential to dramatically impact the emerging renewable energy landscape: a process that converted cellulosic biomass into "bio-crude," a hydrocarbon mixture with properties to those of crude... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location
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  • 10 Feb 2020
  • News

The Gneralist, Not the Specialist, is the Likely Innovator

  • September 2016 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital

By: Shawn Cole, Mark Kramer, Tony L. He, Anshul Maudar and T. Robert Zochowski
This case explores the origins and current practices of DBL, a San Francisco–based venture capital fund and one of the first impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Tanzania
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  • 12 PM – 6:45 PM EDT, 20 Apr 2023
  • Virtual Programming

5 Technologies That Will Change the World. How Will They Affect Your Journey as a Leader?

E.O. Wilson observed that the "real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." We will examine 5 recently developed "godlike technologies" that have passed commercial viability and are on track to change... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

gesture won‘t have inconvenienced or offended anyone. Alternatively, identify an investment that costs little but impacts everyone positively. For example, you could replace the worn out, old-fashioned carpeting in all the public spaces... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch