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  • January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details
Keywords: General Management; K-12; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Edtech; Education; Information Technology; Management; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; Boston
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  • July–August 2015
  • Article

Engineering Reverse Innovations: Principles for Creating Successful Products for Emerging Markets

By: Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
Multinationals are starting to catch on to the logic of reverse innovation, in which products are designed first for consumers in low-income countries and then adapted into disruptive offerings for developed economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets
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  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

so entails committing to paper a vision of the factors that will affect the success or failure of the enterprise. People take the exercise very seriously and get emotionally invested in what they produce. In that context, the article was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2016
  • Book

Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Ethics; Society; Mission and Purpose; Natural Environment
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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

routinely think about the problem. We conclude by exploring implications of this finding for professional conduct and public policy.   Working PapersImplications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact

ideas.” Roche suggests that in-person interactions may be particularly important if your organization depends on innovative thinking for success. “In that case,” she says, “you are going to need access to information you don’t already... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 21 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

great opportunity for students to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore new topics. These are no-fee, no-credit courses over winter break open to both first-year View Details
  • Article

Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise
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  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

study. “Just seeing this race for the sake of it. And so we wanted to write a paper to help slow it down and just think through the risks and... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • 2012
  • Article

Organization Design for Business Ecosystems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Business Ecosystems; Distributed Innovation; Problem Solving; Property Rights; Organization Design; Networks; Integration; Competition; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management
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  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

to price inflation. You must then quantify these shifts and develop product and pricing strategies that balance the need to maintain both profitability and market share. 3.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (A) (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Zhenning Yang
This case describes the process of acquiring Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company). Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine production and... View Details
Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategy; China; France; Chemicals; China; France
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  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Years of Thinking Big Blavatnik Fellowship: 5 Years of Thinking Big 07 FEB 2020 Harvard Business School Resources & Opportunities Community A network of over 90 business and... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

Summing Up What Are the Antidotes to Too Much Focus? Individuals and organizations suffer from too much focus much of the time. That was the sense of the majority of responses to this month's column. Respondents didn't stop there. They... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

Am I Eligible for the 2+2 Program?

eligible. I took a gap year (or two) between high school and college, am I eligible? Yes, you are still eligible. I served in the military and then pursued my undergraduate degree, am I eligible? You are... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

welcome or supported, and they will leave.” Edward Roberrts cautioned us not to expect too much from these kinds of suggestions: “It is naïve to think that empathy and humility... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 07 Dec 2023
  • Webinars: Career

Considering Retirement

"So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

other prime locations in Chicago Downtown, and high interest rates suggested he should think long and hard before committing the company's resources to this speculative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

personal experience and observation. When asked to imagine receiving a promotion at work, women predicted a higher level of negative outcomes than men did. ©iPhoto “We wondered if women may think about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel