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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

In the classic game of Chicken, two drivers on a crash course speed toward each other. The rules are simple: Whoever swerves first and avoids collision loses, and whoever is... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

spending some of it supporting open curriculum projects that democratize higher learning." Several embraced solutions aimed at what they see as the real heart of the problem. As Bruce Hiller put it, "Redistributing wealth from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 6: Evaluating Strategic Profit Performance

By: Robert Simons
This module reading demonstrates how to calculate and analyze the profit generated by different business strategies. Formulas and examples are provided to calculate profit generated by changes in market share, revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and support costs.... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Evaluating Business Performance; Profitability Analysis; Variance Analysis; Measuring Effectiveness; Measuring Efficiency; Activity-Based Costing; Flexible Budget; Accounting; Strategy
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  • 2014
  • Article

Children Develop a Veil of Fairness

By: Alex Shaw, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan, Kristina Olson, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct components: a desire to be fair and a desire to signal to others... View Details
Keywords: Inequity Aversion; Social Signaling; Social Cognitive Development; Communication Intention and Meaning; Fairness; Age; Reputation; Growth and Development; Cognition and Thinking
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  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

over the course of a year. After just three years, GE is generating more than $1.5 billion in incremental income with digitally enabled, outcomes-based business models. The company expects that number to double in 2014 View Details
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

they become your case advisor and mentor. It also affords you a unique “inside look” into the workings of HBS and the process by which our learning curriculum is built. Being... View Details
  • Web

Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

closely with HBS faculty members, supporting the development of cases and other course materials including case supplements, abridgements, background notes, teaching notes, and... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Christian Terwiesch, Wharton

  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

doubt that it was where I wanted to be. Thankfully, I was accepted—and I can say with certainty, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. Life at HBS Now as a second-year, Elective Curriculum (EC) student at HBS, I can honestly say... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari L. Granger
The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By "natural self-expression" we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Science; Attitudes; Perspective
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  • 04 May 2023
  • News

Class of 2024 Embarks on Global Immersion

and ends with the immersion, is designed to enhance students’ ability to manage differences and operate effectively across cultures and business contexts. Drawing upon the... View Details
  • May 2022
  • Case

Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith and Nicole Tempest Keller
As COVID-19 swept across the globe in 2020, the education sector faced unprecedented disruption. Schools and colleges worldwide shut down, forcing over a billion students and teachers to move to online learning. Investor interest in the EdTech space exploded as... View Details
Keywords: Edtech; Technology; Online Learning; COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Information Technology; Venture Capital; Change Management; Strategy; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; California
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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

    How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

    Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

    • Web

    Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact New Venture Competition Announces 2025 Social Enterprise Track Semifinalists 28 Feb 2025 In... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Redefining How Businesses Operate

    In her LinkedIn profile, Rebecca Hu (MBA 2023) describes herself as a “biologist-turned-technologist obsessed with building great software products.” A product manager at the language learning app Duolingo, Hu immersed herself in electives and activities centered... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • 27 May 2022
    • Blog Post

    Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

    curriculum and the amazingly diverse group of students. My classmates have taught me so much. Orry McDonald (MBA 2023) Hometown: Somerville, TN Undergraduate university and... View Details
    • 09 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

    their own companies. Singer and Hackett wanted to see how those plans were put into play right after HBS and over the course of a career. All of these stories needed to start... View Details
    • Web

    Business History - Faculty & Research

    History Initiative seeks to facilitate learning from the past through innovative research and course development, employing global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Business... View Details
    • 09 Jan 2020
    • Book

    Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

    updating these models across all interactions. This predictive power would of course be hugely valuable to Google’s advertisers as well. An AI-first approach meant that Google’s ads would become increasingly personalized View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Research Summary

    The American Chief Executive from 1850 to 2000

    By: Richard S. Tedlow
    Richard S. Tedlow's research explores changes in the leadership strategies, styles, and backgrounds of corporate chief executive officers in the United States over the past century and a half. This project has both a qualitative and a quantitative component. The... View Details