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Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
By: Gautam Mukunda
Will your next leader be insignificant—or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam... View Details
Mukunda, Gautam. Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
wind up just as happy in adulthood as the children of moms who stayed home. Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn hopes the findings bring a big sigh of relief for guilt-ridden mothers who either have to hold down a job to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- April 2011 (Revised February 2015)
- Course Overview Note
The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship — Course Architecture Note
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship." It covers the framework for the course, key principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Plan; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship — Course Architecture Note." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 911-069, April 2011. (Revised February 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
To Change Your Company's Culture, Don't Start by Trying to Change the Culture
systems. Not much happens from pure culture conversations because they don’t result in a clear idea of what needs to change and how it will be changed to reinforce key strategic priorities.” Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
panelists explored the benefits and potential pitfalls of "venture philanthropy," the term for applying the techniques of venture capitalists in funding nonprofits and other socially focused organizations. The model differs from... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
initiatives more closely to specific objectives: preventing misconduct, detecting it, or aligning policies with laws and regulations. Then, using careful model design and some creativity, firms can develop better metrics to measure what’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
More than ever, newspapers need these organizational capabilities. It's still far too early, of course, to tell what the Washington Post will look like five years from now. But Bezos's experience on these three fronts may give it as good a shot as any at getting there.... View Details
- June 2025
- Case
TagHive: Edtech Pricing and Distributor Decisions
By: Isamar Troncoso, Frank V. Cespedes and Stacy Straaberg
Education technology (edtech) company TagHive, founded in 2017, used a direct sales team and third-party distributors to sell its Class Saathi hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Social Marketing; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Education; Teaching; Price; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Education Industry; Technology Industry; India; South Korea
- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
says Harvard Business School assistant professor Maria Roche, one of the paper’s authors. And here's a surprising part: The knowledge spillovers happen most within a radius of 20 meters, or 65 feet. Neighborly influence falls off... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be barking up the wrong tree. "I've... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
collaborate with on this effort? Can this model be replicated at scale across the country? Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218110-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-079 Membership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
revenue. HBS Professor Frances X. Frei and her colleagues Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker, both of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have studied the use of call centers in this industry. In their working paper... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Case 315-109 Pearson Affordable Learning Fund An in-house venture capital fund for affordable private schools at the base of the pyramid established by Pearson, the world's largest education company, PALF sought to invest in business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
the road.” “That’s what I remember from growing up, this constant conflict and fight over hours,” recounts Stavros, a partner at private equity firm KKR, in a new series of Harvard Business School case studies that detail his radical... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 2010
- Working Paper
Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'
By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details
Erhard, Werner H., Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-038, October 2010.
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When aligned with strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne