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      Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks

      By: John D. Macomber

      This course is about building sustainable and resilient cities, future proofing real estate and infrastructure assets, and examining how businesses and investors find opportunities in climate adaptation.

      The world faces substantial challenges in the face of... View Details

      Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Climate Finance; Migration; Climate Change; Adaptation; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Insurance Industry; Banking Industry
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      Climate Adaptation

      By: John D. Macomber
      It's clear that challenges like wildfires, river flooding, extreme heat, and storm surge are increasing. How will homeowners, businesses, instituations, goverments, and all of society decide what and whom to protect and what and whom to not protect? What is the timing?... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Climate Risk; Hurricanes; Fire Protection; Water Management; Insurance And Reinsurance
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      Compensation Committees

      By: Suraj Srinivasan
      Executive compensation has become a flashpoint issue for board members, institutional investors, regulators, and the media. Compensation committees are challenged to design compensation programs that not only tie business or corporate strategies to company performance,... View Details
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      Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How Entrepreneurs Narrow the Presentation-Performance Gap

      By: Rebecca Karp and Siobhan O'Mahony
      Entrepreneurs often skillfully leverage symbolic actions to manage impressions and gain acceptance for their innovations. Impression management can generate interest, but also heighten expectations beyond an innovation’s capabilities, creating a gap between... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Innovation; Integration Strategy; Impression Management; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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      Karp, Rebecca, and Siobhan O'Mahony. "Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How Entrepreneurs Narrow the Presentation-Performance Gap." Organization Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online April 15, 2025.)
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      Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

      By: Robert S. Huckman
      This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details
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      Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems

      By: Tarun Khanna

      What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of the state or other actors? Intractable problems – such as lack of access to education and healthcare, forced reliance on contaminated... View Details

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      Creating Corporate Value Added

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      In response to dramatic changes in the business environment--hypercompetition in many traditional industries, short product life cycles, and new competitors based in emerging nations--successful companies have responded by repositioning themselves in the global markets... View Details
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      Crisis Management

      By: Dutch Leonard
      This project examines the special challenges of leadership in crisis situations and the associated challenges of leadership in preparing in advance for the possibility of crises to come. It includes both physical life safety crises (natural disasters, industrial... View Details
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      Cultural Entrepreneurship and the Business of the Arts

      By: Rohit Deshpande
      A more recent research program focuses on creating and managing ventures connected with the arts and culture. This research extends the concept of Customer-Centricity into the context of Audience Engagement. This primarily case-based work explores how successful... View Details
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      Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      This body of work examines the mechanics of how firms grow profitably in commoditizing markets. Underlying the "customer-centricity" that many firms embrace today is a factor that will determine their success with this effort: enabling collaboration across... View Details
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      Deals

      By: Kevin P. Mohan

      This advanced negotiation course includes both negotiation simulations and analysis of actual corporate deals. In the first part of the course, students will participate in complex negotiation simulations and debrief their results in class. In the second part of the... View Details

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      Demystifying the Family Enterprise

      By: Christina R. Wing

      This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm,... View Details

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      DESIGN THEORY AND PRACTICE ES285

      By: Roberto Verganti

      Any organization, business or venture grounds its value on how “meaningful” are its products (functionally, symbolically and emotionally). Design Theory and Practice (DTP) empowers students to create products that are meaningful, to people who use them and to... View Details

      Keywords: Integrated Design; Leadership; User Experience Design; Design; Strategy; Technology; Product Design
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      Designing and Executing Corporate Revitalization

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      Given today's turbulent environment, business leaders are seeking a new path to success for their companies. But while many firms talk about transforming themselves around current trends such as digitization and remote work, most struggle when it comes to... View Details
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      Digital Marketing Strategy

      By: John A. Deighton

      When the tools of marketing change, strategies change too. The focus of this course is on firms trying to navigate the transition from offline to online market-making and strategy development. Our concern is primarily with corporations that have products and... View Details

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      Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

      By: Sandra J. Sucher

      In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details

      Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Social Issues
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      Driving Digital Strategy

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee

      Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to harness its... View Details

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      Empirical Technology and Operations Management Course

      By: Himabindu Lakkaraju
      I taught a set of lectures on "Introduction to Machine Learning for Social Scientists" as part of this required course for first year PhD students. This module familiarizes students with all the basic concepts in machine learning, their implementations, as well as the... View Details
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      Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

      By: Rebecca M. Henderson

      Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

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      Families in Business

      By: Christina R. Wing

      Like every company, family businesses must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family businesses also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In this Executive Education program, participants... View Details

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