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  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

projects known for their cutting-edge designs and investment potential. Despite the tremendous success of the firm, Zhang Xin still looks at the future with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Decoding Inside Information

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy & Lukasz Pomorski; Financial Services
  • Article

(Mis)perceptions of Inequality

By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

egalitarian in 2002 and remained stagnant in the following decade (Israel, the United States, Great Britain, Spain, Australia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2012
  • Book

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Being a great leader today is much harder than you think—meet Jim Barton. He's a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Complexity; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Volatility
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  • 23 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Informed and Interconnected: A Manifesto for Smarter Cities

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Stanley S. Litow; Technology
  • June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P＆G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Fit to Compete

    Is Silence Killing Your Strategy? In his thirty years of working in corporations, Harvard Business School professor Michael Beer has witnessed firsthand how organizational silence derails strategic objectives. When employees can't speak truth to power, senior... View Details
    • Web

    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

    Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students March 2025 Case Bidding for the Bunker: Crown Wine Cellars’ Complex Negotiations By: Alex Chan and Rachel Lau March... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

    great deal to charity but a relatively low percentage of their profits, yet firms can learn from the findings, Keenan says. First, if companies want to impress consumers, they may need to consider ways to... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 2023
    • Article

    Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam—A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset

    By: Junling Liu, Peilin Zhou, Yining Hua, Dading Chong, Zhongyu Tian, Andrew Liu, Helin Wang, Chenyu You, Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhu and Michael Lingzhi Li
    Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of question answering (QA). However, evaluating LLMs in the medical field is challenging due to the lack of standardized and comprehensive datasets. To address this gap, we introduce CMExam,... View Details
    Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Health Industry
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    • January 2012 (Revised September 2015)
    • Case

    Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer

    By: George Serafeim
    In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health,... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry
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    • August 2015 (Revised October 2023)
    • Case

    Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

    By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott
    In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Finance; Strategy; Investment; United States
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    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

    Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
    Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
    • 10 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

    beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered and were conquered. The present volume, assembling some of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Mar 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 21 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

    As we bid farewell to another incredible year, it's time to reflect on the moments that resonated most with our readers. Let's revisit this year's highlights of the MBA Voices Blog! FROM HARVARD BUSINESS... View Details
    • February 18, 2022
    • Article

    Transparency as a Solution for COVID-19 Related Hospital Capacity Issues

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
    In the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. hospitals could not provide an adequate supply of beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of hospital bed capacity is of great importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but... View Details
    Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Health Care; Health Care Demand; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Industry; Health Care Operations; Health Care Policy; Transparency; Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Performance Capacity; Policy; Health Industry
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    • Web

    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    More Information HBS Working Knowledge Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? By: Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik More Information HBS Working Paper Series Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'?... View Details
    • Web

    Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    and new business formation. Building & Upgrading Clusters Tourism Cluster in Cairns, Australia In Cairn, this cluster (a group of interrelated businesses and institutions) was built around the Great Barrier... View Details