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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
  • Research Summary

Business Leadership Coalitions

By: James E. Austin
This multiyear research project has been studying the creation and functioning of the organizations business leaders have created in order to mobilize their collective capabilities to address significant issues and problems facing them and their communities. These... View Details
  • September 2022
  • Article

Find and Replace: R&D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products

By: Joshua L. Krieger, Xuelin Li and Richard T. Thakor
How do innovative firms react when existing products experience negative shocks? We explore this question with detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as idiosyncratic negative shocks to approved drugs, we first... View Details
Keywords: R＆D Investments; Drug Development; Product Shocks; M＆A; Biopharmaceutical Industry; FDA; System Shocks; Research and Development; Investment; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 2006
  • Other Unpublished Work

Rural Clusters of Innovation: Berkshires Strategy Project: Driving A Long-Term Economic Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter
The Berkshires Strategy Project, a six-month strategy development effort involving dozens of private and public sector organizations in the Berkshires, has led to broad consensus behind an economic strategy for the County, and galvanized a leadership group in the form... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Industry Clusters; Growth and Development; United States
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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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  • December 2008 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

By: David E. Bell and Brian Matthew Milder
In 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation joined together to form a new organization, AGRA, to tackle the historic challenge of increasing agricultural production in Africa. Launched with much fanfare and led by former U.N.... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Funds; Food; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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  • May 2007
  • Article

The Governance of Open Source Initiatives: What Does it Mean to be Community Managed?

The concept of 'open source' software initially referred to software projects managed by grassroots communities in public forums. Since 1998, the concept has been adapted and diffused to new settings that extend beyond software. While the open source community has... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Open Source Distribution
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  • 2018
  • Race and Leadership Development

Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?

    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
    • June 2009
    • Case

    Plaza, the Logistics Park of Zaragoza

    In the year 2000, the Government of the Autonomous Community of Aragón, Spain, made public a project for the development of a large-scale logistics park in the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza. With an area of nearly 13 square kilometers, PLAZA (an acronym for... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Geographic Location; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Logistics; Supply Chain; Transportation; Distribution Industry; Zaragoza
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    • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
    • Teaching Note

    The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-002. "Miccosukee" explores the challenges of coordinating actions to solve a complex systems problem—from individuals, small organizations, and coalitions of multiple organizations. The case discusses the impact of climate change and... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Leading Change; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park
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    The new property: computational property, intellectual property, and cyberspace

    The objective of this project is to design ownership regimes for property located in cyberspace, such as websites, links for e-travel, applets that run on distant processors, and other related computational species. The driving assumption of the project is that the... View Details
    • 19 Apr 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicholas Short, Harvard University

    • 01 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

    from the nonprofit and public sector to attend HBS, these fellowships enable the School to award $10,000 to a select number of incoming MBA students. Beginning with the Class of 1990, 257 incoming students have received the fellowship.... View Details
    • 14 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

    put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.” Handling hard conversations The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of these skills, the authors say. As... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • April 2012
    • Case

    Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), a government agency, invests in public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Commercialization; Management Practices and Processes; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; Denmark
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      Archie L. Jones

      Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

        John D. Dionne

        John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

        • 24 Feb 2015
        • First Look

        First Look: February 24

          Publications February 2015 University of Chicago Press Political Standards By: Ramanna, Karthik Abstract—There are certain institutions underlying our modern market-capitalist system that are largely outside the interest and... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Dante Roscini

          Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details