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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Mills is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School and a leading authority on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as the Administrator of... View Details

07 Mar 2023
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Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details

February 2023
Teaching Note

Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

By: Reshmaan Hussam, Sophus A. Reinert and Jaya Y. Wen

In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Should she move to another island or into the city on the... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Geographic Location; Bangladesh

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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Ruback , Royce Yudkoff Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Field X (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Randolph Cohen Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Field Y: Projects in Business Management (also listed under Entrepreneurial... View Details

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

About the Authors Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School. Ann... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

11 Jan 2010
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Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

growing new firm with an open source business model. In response, IBM in 2005 bought a small firm called Gluecode that sold products in the same market segment as JBoss. IBM then opened the Gluecode product... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
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American Well: The DTC Decision

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details

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26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

smart cities will perform better environmentally, financially, and socially than has been the case in most of the world's cities to date. A pretty smart way, we'd say, of protecting our environment. Benjamin G. Edelman, Assistant Professor Of View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

Move over, venture cap. There's a new kid on the block. It's the business incubator, and it has the potential to remake the way businesses are launched in the Internet economy. Incubators are not really new,... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

05 May 2014
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Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

Professor of Business Administration at HBS; Giada Di Stefano, an assistant professor at HEC Paris; and Bradley Staats, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School. Ann Le Cam is senior vice president of... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

25 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Importance of Teaming

explains its importance to today's corporate environment. In today's complex and volatile business environment, corporations and organizations also win or lose by creating wholes that are greater than the sum of their parts. Intense... View Details

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

24 Mar 2022
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Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

Keywords: Rituals

03 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

aspects of the firm: operations, marketing, finance, communications, and product development. Clearly, general management skills win the day, says one of the paper’s coauthors, Paul A. Gompers, who is the Eugene Holman Professor of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2022
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Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

perception is that brands that sacrifice relatively more of their earnings seem more generous,” says Elizabeth Keenan, assistant professor of business administration at HBS. “There's some good will... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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History of Excellence - Doctoral

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree. This change expands the partnership between HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), and more accurately reflects the structure and... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Sector ; Government Administration ; Government Legislation ; Motivation and Incentives ; Semiconductor Industry ; Public Administration Industry ; United States Citation Educators Related Weiss, Mitch, and... View Details

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who has held top executive positions at some eight technology-based start-ups. If failure refers to failing to see the projected return on investment, then the failure rate is 70 to 80... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 2018 (Revised June 2022)
Teaching Note

AirFox (A): Embracing the Blockchain and an ICO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Nathaniel Schwalb

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-097. In summer 2017, Victor Santos, CEO of AirFox, considered whether to pivot his startup towards a new product built with blockchain—a quickly growing technology at the time. AirFox was an early stage startup that sold... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Initial Coin Offering; ICO; Business Startups; Finance; Currency; Strategy; Decision Making; United States

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Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio

This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil

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