Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field. “Most of the disagreements were on projects that the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study by the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities The VBHCD team is also examining how to estimate and distribute the costs of ancillary, indirect, and support departments, including Radiology and Billing. VBHCD Project... View Details

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Campus Vehicular Access | About

generally one-way, entering campus at Kresge Way Gate and exiting through Harvard Way Gate. DELIVERIES Service vendors may access campus to drop off tools and materials that cannot be reasonably carried from the parking lot and are necessary to complete work on campus.... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

shift fr... Beyond Business as Usual: My MBA Summer Internship in Global Health Kaleigh Killoran 30 Jul 2019 Before HBS, I moved to Kenya so that I could work on critical infrastructure projects and help bu... Life After Rikers: HBS... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Reawakening rural America

Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based company has completed View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias

over time. Her findings indicate that expert evaluators were indeed biased in favor of projects in their own area, which increased the application’s funding chances by 3.2 percent. But there was an unexpected benefit to their bias.... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details

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What We Do | Research Associates

five-person start-up, or a nonprofit organization. A few RA positions focus exclusively on a book manuscript. Some projects require intensive statistical analysis, while others involve weeks of field interviews (and a few, of course,... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation

Term project designed to help the automaker advance its delivery of consumer-friendly electronics. “We call the project Cars 2.0,” says Fields. “We’ve had to change the culture here at Ford from ‘not... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Jan 2014
Case

Rail Transportation in the United States

structured way of thinking through the issues facing rail transportation and discusses three recent freight rail infrastructure projects that hold promise for the future: the National Gateway, the Keystone Corridor, and the CREATE... View Details

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Using Oral History in Research - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Using Oral History in Research DEC 15th (9am - 12pm) EST The Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) project has been conducting in-depth interviews with top business leaders in emerging markets since 2008. These are hosted on our... View Details

Fast Answer

Cost of doing business

How can I compare the costs of doing business in various countries or regions? The World Bank reports on the "cost of business start-up procedures (as % of GNI per capita). This variable is part of their B-Ready project... View Details

11 Oct 2022
News

Righting the Ship

Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While projects were receiving full... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

29 Apr 2019
News

A Global Mission

countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

HBS students worked on their project with representatives of the bakery chain Benjamin in São Paulo. (photo by Cintia Farago) In the United States, brand loyalty is often a powerful motivator—consumers will drive miles in search of a... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

Business Development; Dr. Joseph Laux, CTO; Dr. Bhawna Nagar, Research Projects - Grensol closes the materials loop for car recycling to valorize industrial waste, recover valuable resources, and produce energy. TOP FINALISTS Earthbond -... View Details

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Kenny (MBA 2019), the director of strategy and projects at Carbon Capture Inc. She's describing the technology at the heart of the young company's ambitious decarbonization efforts. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck... View Details

2012
Chapter

Structuring Consulting Firms

By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand

This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

Citation

May 1990 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill

Covers the same material concerning the specific transfer of technology as described in the longer version but summarizes the environmental and organizational context of the transfer. Most appropriate when the instructor wishes to focus on the action questions. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Conflict Management; Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Employees; Competitive Strategy; Projects