Filter Results:
(332)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,030)
- People (2)
- News (335)
- Research (332)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (31)
- Faculty Publications (128)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,030)
- People (2)
- News (335)
- Research (332)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (31)
- Faculty Publications (128)
Sort by
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored in the computer View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
substantial breakthroughs in life sciences technologies and continued breakthroughs in information technology. While there is no entirely new technology cluster evident on the horizon, new segments will be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Schlesinger I have just begun Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Nobel Prize-winner Angus Deaton. This book represents a well- crafted effort of social science research applied to the urgent matters of View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Organizational Capabilities Authors:Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
framework also delivers a clear separation between tactics and strategy. This distinction is possible because strategy and business model are different constructs. Managing Know-How Authors:Deishin Lee and Eric Van den Steen Publication:Management View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
entrepreneurship to become bold again and transformational through re-engagement with history. Historical theories of time, context, and change are applied to entrepreneurship theory to demonstrate how they illuminate aspects of the entrepreneurial process that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
on to a PhD in biology that you might go to a place that's attached to a major medical school. In fact, a higher percentage of individuals go on to doctorates in the life sciences from places like Williams,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
forthcoming New York: Dey Street Books Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life By: Gino, F. Abstract—The world’s best chef. An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing. A magician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
provides an opportunity to understand how private equity investors need to adapt to emerging markets. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-019 Building Life View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
correlated with the level of income, the welfare state and (weakly) with life expectancy; they are negatively correlated with the average number of hours worked, environmental degradation (measured by SOx emissions), crime, openness to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
audit firms can be associated with improved audit and reporting quality in client firms. Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank Authors:B. Staats and F. Gino Publication:Management Science... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
between broad foreign experiences and immoral behavior was robust across a variety of cultural populations (anglophone, francophone), life stages (high school students, university students, MBA students, middle-aged adults), and seven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
progressed under the influence of a number of distinguished HBS professors and mentors, including Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Richard Meriam, and Edmund P. Learned. After earning his Doctor of Commercial Science degree and becoming an... View Details
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
of novel consumer goods—ready-made shirts, watches, Japanned fans, celluloid baby rattles, Swiss buttermilk soap, and much more. Heinz could also sense that the pace of urban life was quickening, spurred on by transportation and... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
management consulting services for life science companies. By 2015, the company was expanding beyond the biopharmaceutical industry, offering analytical services to health care systems, like the National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
a dime and move into life sciences or whatever the next trend is, he said. Firms also need to grapple with their mission, added Kania (HBS MBA'82). Venture capital as an investment profession can be... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that... View Details