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  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

financed them—declared such brick-and-mortar businesses were dinosaurs on their way to extinction. The success of Bluemercury proved the critics wrong. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders” Despite... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

to keep working from home part of the time after COVID-19 abates, researchers are probing how virtual interaction might reshape organizations. In the first large-scale analysis of digital communication early in the crisis, the team—Sadun;... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality

By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Under the prevailing ideology of "shareholder primacy" most boards of directors believe that they are prevented from considering stakeholders other than shareholders in determining material issues and materiality for strategy and reporting. New research is showing that... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    Wenxin Du

    Wenxin Du is a Professor of Finance and the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School. She studies global currency and fixed income markets, central banking, financial... View Details

    • January 2000
    • Article

    Maxmin Expected Utility through Statewise Combinations

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
    This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. The key axioms are stated using statewise combinations as in Gul (1992). View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods
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    • 03 Jun 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Inducement Prizes and Innovation

    Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas

      Caroline M. Elkins

      Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

      • 24 May 2018
      • Blog Post

      Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

      For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous ones, perhaps by serving on a... View Details
      • 22 Mar 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

      Free and Open Source Software, a joint project by the Linux Foundation and LISH released in 2022, and BuiltWith, a service that scans almost 9 million company websites to understand how they’re built, including what open source code they... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

        Rajiv Lal

        Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

        • 17 Oct 2018
        • Video

        Unlocking the Potential of Precision Medicine

        • 20 Jun 2012
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        Teaching Leadership: What We Know

        together what we've learned. This edited volume collects international scholars to not only put forward a foundational reference for leadership training but also to offer a community of practice where ideas can be developed and shared.... View Details
        Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education
        • 22 Jul 2020
        • Blog Post

        Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

        Diversity and inclusion in organizations enhances various kinds of performance, from creativity to profitability. A growing body of research tells us this. So they are not just the right things to do; there is both an economic and social... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • 11 Jun 2018
        • Blog Post

        Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

        entrepreneurs giving them the foundation needed to achieve their goals. Among those resources is the Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship. Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows This innovative fellowship program provides a... View Details
        • Research Summary

        The Exercise and Development of Leadership

        My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details

          Frank V. Cespedes

          Frank Cespedes is Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He received his B.A. from the City College of New York, M.S. from M.I.T. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

          At Harvard, he has developed and taught a variety of MBA and executive... View Details

          • 2024
          • Working Paper

          Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy—Living Drugs: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

          By: Amar Bhidé and Srikant M. Datar
          In 2017, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an immunotherapeutic treatment, called CAR-T therapy, for two kinds of blood cancers—acute leukemia (ALL) and a lymphoma. We describe 1) how CAR-T works, 2) the foundational advances and discoveries, 3) the... View Details
          Keywords: Immunotherapy; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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          • 16 Jul 2020
          • Research & Ideas

          Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

          However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field View Details
          Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

            William A. Sahlman

            William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

            Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

            Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games
            • Research Summary

            Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel

            By: Janice H. Hammond
            Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details