General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

generics like ibuprofen. A middle-aged man needs heart medication to avoid another attack. He’s more likely to take his pills regularly if his plan doesn’t have a copay for the prescription. Yet, even with a copay, he’s arguably much... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

Toxic workers aren’t just a pain in the rear; they’re also a pain in the bottom line, according to a new Harvard Business School working paper. Dylan Minor, visiting assistant professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55514 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Innovative cultures are View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

leverage their backgrounds to build their businesses and generate funding. “Harley’s business is one that really no one else would have started because it’s his past experience... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

them. John D.Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and former chairman and CEO of the George B. H. Macomber Company, a general contractor. Mega sporting events like the Olympics bring a global... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

opportunities. Startup life is exciting, but full of uncertainty. You need the best information possible to make smart choices. The Startup Lottery is for anyone who wants to maximize their likelihood of success. Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

generated by margin contributions from the School’s competitive business units—HBP, Executive Education, and HBS Online—as well as generous giving to the School by alumni and... View Details

23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow. We characterize certain View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

agreements through manufacturers, wholesale and retail distribution channels, content providers, ISPs, and alliance partners abroad—and ultimately sold his young but thriving business to Microsoft for $425 million. The Logic Of Backward... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

all have to be in alignment." Along with Russell A. Eisenstat, an independent consultant and former HBS faculty member, Beer has developed a process called Organizational Fitness Profiling, which helps a CEO or business unit View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

working to expand a fledgling business operating in a new, as yet largely undefined, market. Heinz and Noble believed that they had no time to lose. To make the most of the opportunity they saw before them, they would have to use their... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

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Research Design - Impact Investments

firms. Focus Area 1 The first focus area for the project is specifying the universe of impact investors and their portfolio companies. We define impact investors to be investors with the explicit dual objective of generating social good... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat has long argued that the best international strategy also includes recognition of differences in local markets. In the December 2005 issue of Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

kitchens can test new restaurant concepts, menu items, and seasonal brands (for example, a salad brand in the summer) more easily without costly investments. It is still an emergent business model with lots of variations. Cloud kitchen... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, authors Richard Nolan and Warren McFarlan explored the role of the board of directors in IT governance—and how most "fall into the default mode of applying a set of tacit or explicit rules... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

Philippines, the U.S., and most recently, China. Aspiring Minds had seen success as a business-to-business (B2B) entity, creating and selling technology products geared towards industry verticals. By 2015 the business-to-consumer (B2C) side of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
Case

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry

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19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details