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  • 04 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

benefit considerably by outsourcing, for example, analytical functions to qualified suppliers if those skills are lacking in-house. But some aspects of marketing are less amenable to outsourcing—those that directly drive marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency

By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Learning By Doing; Environment; Energy; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Price; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 01 Dec 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

success included, “organization leadership (along with frontline managers that) model the desired culture,” a reason behind the change (that) “is well articulated and understood by the stakeholders and not... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process; all these other elements have an impact as well. Q: What role do customers play? Bower: In the ordinary course of events, when managers of business units make proposals for investments, they are almost always driven View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 06 Nov 2017
  • Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their growth can be View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2010
  • Case

Applied Research Technologies, Inc.: Global Innovation's Challenges

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Heather Beckham
Applied Research Technologies, Inc. (ART) is a diversified technology company which has used its entrepreneurial culture and encouragement of innovation as an ongoing competitive advantage. The case concentrates on the challenges faced by Peter Vyas, the Filtration... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Reputation; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Technology Industry
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  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

managers in whom they can have some degree of confidence? Judging from the large proportion of those accused of wrongdoing as part of the "Enron syndrome" who possess MBAs from leading business schools, this is a valid question.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

characterize profits to tax authorities and capital markets separately). There is also much anecdotal evidence on the profusion of tax shelters and compensation incentives for managing effective tax rates. View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany a career transition from... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
  • 23 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

came after several countries began requiring that companies report their metrics on environmental footprint, worker safety, and similar issues in a systematic, uniform way. But does this reporting actually lead to more responsible View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability

institution is living up to its commitments in each area. Still in its infancy, integrated reporting has been adopted by a few dozen companies including AEP, BASF, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Philips, Southwest Airlines, and United... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

he respects have said that in Russia it is almost impossible not to pay bribes to get things done. Why? Because local and federal laws conflict as if by design, which leads to gaps that some officials believe they can exploit. But, across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage