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  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

core activities of teaching, research, and disseminating ideas. Faculty and students alike embraced the custom technology that enabled teaching and learning both in the classroom and remotely. They were supported by hundreds of frontline... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
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  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

one of 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference by Board Prospects in 2024. Archie L. Jones : Received the 2024 Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award. Olivia S. Kim : Winner of the 2024 Best Paper Award at the Red Rock Finance... View Details
  • January 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Royal DSM: Fighting Hidden Hunger

By: Rebecca Henderson, Noah Fisher and Mary Shelman
In 2007 Royal DSM, a leading life science and materials company, entered a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) to combat hidden hunger around the world by providing micronutrient solutions. The case investigates the unexpectedly large impact the partnership... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Human Needs; Partners and Partnerships; Global Range; Nutrition; Science-Based Business; Non-Governmental Organizations; Service Industry; Health Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2021
  • News

Strengthening Democracy

of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust, by Professor Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta "Reflections on the Tumult in Washington D.C.," Professors Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Mihir Desai, and Rebecca... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Campaign Season

Jonathan Zittrain and included McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson, cochair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, and Harvard Medical School professor Peter Sorger. HBS will launch its campaign in April, followed... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2025
  • Supplement

A Winning Strategy (B): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn
This case describes the aftermath of decisions made by two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who created a new training plan that defied... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Nelson P. Repenning, and Rebecca Henderson Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

By: R. Gibbons and R. Henderson
A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to diffuse more rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Contracts; Competency and Skills; Relationships; Complexity
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  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons Publication:In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. States

By: Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James C. Okun and Emily Oster
We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with comprehensive data on schooling in the 2020-21 school year across 12 states. We find... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; In-person Schooling; Distance Learning; Outcomes Measurement; Health Pandemics; Education; Performance Evaluation
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  • March 2015 (Revised March 2016)
  • Background Note

Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century?

By: Rebecca Henderson, Amram Migdal and Tony He
Industry self-regulation has, in general, a lousy track record. Many studies have shown that it is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as... View Details
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

to prevent the mishandling of public information, the entire industry was being impacted. Saint-Amand is faced with the challenge of deciding how best to handle this crisis. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412004-PDF-ENG Sustainable Tea at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • News

Bringing Teachers to All of America

Jared Henderson (MBA 2007) was executive director of Teach for America in Arkansas until winter 2017, when he announced a run for governor of the state. In this interview, conducted during Spring Reunion in May 2017, View Details
  • 18 Jul 2018
  • News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) A part-time job at a... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Thinking Green

As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and... View Details
Keywords: awards; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Mining; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade