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    Frank Nagle

    Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

    • 04 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

    that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • March 2021
    • Case

    Yale Investments Office: November 2020

    By: Josh Lerner, Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate, natural resources—given the impact of the COVID-19... View Details
    Keywords: University Endowment; Asset Allocation; Real Estate; Equities; Fixed Income; COVID-19; Asset Management; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Natural Resources; Resource Allocation; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Health Pandemics; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Connecticut
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    • June 2024
    • Article

    Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

    By: Tina Highfill and Matthew Weinzierl
    Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Economic Growth; Price; Production; Aerospace Industry
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    • 04 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 4

    initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us to analyze two competing changes to the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      John D. Macomber

      John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

      Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry
      • March 2011
      • Article

      Restaurant Organizational Forms and Community in the U.S. in 2005

      By: Glenn R. Carroll and Magnus Thor Torfason
      Recent sociological theory and research highlights food, drink, and restaurants as culturally meaningful and related to social identity. An implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological character of... View Details
      Keywords: Demographics; Age; Supply Chain Management; Culture; Balance and Stability; Income Characteristics; Research; Civil Society or Community; Identity; Theory; Society; Service Industry; United States
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      • 03 Dec 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

      flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued,... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne

        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • 03 Jan 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

        Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness
        • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
        • Case

        OpenInvest

        By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
        Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details
        Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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          Michael W. Toffel

          Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details

          • August 2002
          • Case

          MassEnvelopePlus

          By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Brooke Bartletta and Michelle Heskett
          Describes the challenges Steve Grossman, a fourth-generation owner of a small commercial printing company, must face amid industry consolidation, technological changes, and his own run for public office. View Details
          Keywords: Family Business; Family Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Change Management; Information Technology; Personal Development and Career; Service Delivery; Service Industry; Massachusetts
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          • January 2003 (Revised September 2004)
          • Case

          Consulting by Auditors (B): The Compromise and its Fallout

          By: Ashish Nanda
          This case tracks the evolution from October 2000 to July 2001 of public debate, regulatory decisions, and firm perspectives on the subject of consulting by accounting firms. View Details
          Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Service Delivery; Accounting Industry; Consulting Industry
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          • 04 Aug 2009
          • First Look

          First Look: August 4

          "going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 30 Jan 2017
          • Research & Ideas

          Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

          need to get shareholders more engaged? What shape should the separation of management and ownership take in the twenty-first century?” “We are now in a situation where index investors are the major shareholders in most of the large- and medium-sized View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
          • 24 Sep 2014
          • Op-Ed

          Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

          You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
          Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities
          • 2016
          • Working Paper

          Refugee Resettlement

          By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
          Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees... View Details
          Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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          • September 2014 (Revised June 2016)
          • Case

          edX: Strategies for Higher Education

          By: David Collis, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
          In May 2012, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made... View Details
          Keywords: MOOCS; edX; Online Platforms; Online Education; Harvard University; MIT; Execution; Monetization; Brand Management; Higher Education; Information Technology; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Education Industry
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          • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
          • Case

          Sarvajal: Water for All

          By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha
          Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public... View Details
          Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Communication Technology; Private Sector; Social Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Rural Scope; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; India
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