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  • July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

By: Malcolm S. Salter
This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe
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  • 01 Oct 2014
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship: Sparking Curiosity

Classes started the other week and I am settling into the busy hum of case studies, student club events and catching up with classmates. Each conversation is a new opportunity to reflect upon my summer experience. Looking back, my time at... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Technology
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

Willard Marriott. He was a young guy from a farming town who created the Marriott hotel chain. Everybody talked about how wonderful his success was. Also, entrepreneurship is greater in communities that see change as positive and in which successful members reinvest... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

    LabCDMX: Experiment 50

    There were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the... View Details
    • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
    • Case

    CrossBoundary Energy

    By: John Macomber
    Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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    • Article

    Reflections: Toward a Normative and Actionable Theory of Planned Organizational Change and Development

    By: Michael Beer
    A normative and actionable theory of planned organizational change and development is proposed based on fifty years of engagement by the author as a scholar-consultant. Five principles are central features of the theory and practice proposed: 1) Organizations are... View Details
    Keywords: Consultant; Process; Systems; Silence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Learning; Management Teams
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    • 05 Dec 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

    Harvard Business School’s exploration of the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, and Latin America has reached an important milestone. This month the Creating Emerging Markets project will publish interviews 100 and 101... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Climate Finance SIP

    In late January 2021, over seventy HBS MBA students gathered in a virtual classroom for four exciting days of a short intensive program (“SIP”) on Climate Finance, taught by professors George Serafeim and Vikram Gandhi. Through a series of View Details
    • 23 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

    apply in any given situation. By learning how these decision-making Minds differ, and the factors and environments that precipitate each one, marketers can better anticipate and serve their intended customers. Download working paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 06 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

    time or date. They make what may seem like a logical suggestion but which, if accepted, will make the project miss its window of opportunity. Death-by-delay tactics can force so many meetings or so many straw polls that momentum is lost,... View Details
    Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
    • 2011
    • Chapter

    Developing an Effective Organization: Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory

    By: Michael Beer
    The field of organization development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a platform... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Research; Alignment; Theory; Value
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    • 19 Apr 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas Short, Harvard University

    • Research Summary

    The Political Power of Weak Interests

    By: Gunnar Trumbull

    One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details

    • 2018
    • Race and Leadership Development

    Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?

    • Article

    Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select the Best Science Proposals?

    By: Danielle Li and Leila Agha
    This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Research; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 29 Oct 2019
    • Blog Post

    Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

    from HBS I worked at Goldman Sachs for a couple of years, where I was exposed to a couple of clean energy companies. At that point, I thought, “Hmmm. Maybe there’s a way to work on projects with a purpose you’re personally passionate... View Details

      William C. Vrattos

      Bill Vrattos is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Investment Strategies, a course on public market investing in the elective curriculum. He also co-teaches Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems, where he mentors student groups on... View Details

        Andy Zelleke

        Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

        Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

        Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services
        • Research Summary

        Financing New Business Formation

        By: Paul A. Gompers
        New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details