Publications

Find at Harvard

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

other hand, Joshua Kurlantzick, writing from Shanghai in The New Republic three weeks ago, paints another picture. His is of a China with a failed banking system with 50 percent of non-performing loans made to state-owned enterprises to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things

By: Frank Nagle

In 2019, a decade after co-founding Nexleaf Analytics, CEO Nithya Ramanathan faced an important decision that would impact the ability of the small, but growing, not-for-profit organization to thrive for another decade. Their sensor technologies and big data analytics... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy; Patents; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Information Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Ventures Quantified Ventures supports the progress of the social enterprise community through impact investing. They work with nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and governments who demonstrate capacity... View Details

02 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

across the United States. Host Controls The job performances of casino hosts are subject to various degrees of monitoring, even within the same MGM-Mirage organization. The enterprise comprises a number of individual properties that were... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation

January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Pittsburgh

By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer

The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

customers and for investors. We need leaders who understand the larger purpose of the enterprise and the principles and standards that drive its success. We need leaders whose behavior matches and reinforces those values. In a word, we... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

Transfers usefully move resources from lowest- to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

January 2023 (Revised September 2024)
Supplement

The END Fund (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han

Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Investment Funds; Global Range; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Mission and Purpose

Career Coach

Warren Radtke

Warren (Kellogg '60) is a HBS Career and Professional Development Consultant and a Confidential Advisor to C-Suite Executives and Entrepreneurs. He has held executive positions in public and privately held companies as well as in the nonprofit sector. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise; Social Enterprise

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Adoption; Health Industry; District of Columbia

Web

Alumni Forums - Alumni

LGBTQ New York N. California Singapore S. California Social Enterprise Initiative South Florida Toronto Washington DC Why choose Forums? “We believe that most people–and certainly many leaders–can benefit... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

slotting into a job in an established business had little allure. He wanted to start something new, ideally a for-profit enterprise that would have a visible social impact. But when he thought about health... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

development of the industry, as well as the emergence of new corporate structures for social enterprises and the creation of innovative financial instruments such as the Social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Online AI Course | HBS Online

Baker, CEO and Chairwoman, Mozilla Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited India Show Hide Details Concepts Strategy: Network Effects and Learning Effects Ethics of Digital Scale, Scope, and... View Details

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

wind turbines, had evolved from a small family-run business into a global enterprise spanning four continents in just over a decade. But would the costs associated with the aggressive growth policy be too much for a young company to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Washington Hospital Center (C): Progress and Prospects, 1995-2001

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

Dr. Craig Feied and Dr. Mark Smith have already transformed a "worst-in-area" emergency medicine department into the best in the area. Industry-wide and hospital system-specific challenges remain, including their newest project of national importance--creating an... View Details

Keywords: History; Higher Education; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; District of Columbia