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  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

academic economics department. Amazon is far from alone in this trend. Some 50 tech companies “have been snapping up economists at a remarkable scale,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media

      Joshua D. Margolis

      Joshua Margolis is James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Professor of Business Administration and the Unit Head for the Organizational Behavior unit. He is also Faculty Chair of the Program for Leadership Development. His research and teaching revolve around leadership... View Details

      Keywords: furniture; health care; insurance industry; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals
      • 02 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

      Editor's note: In their new book, The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development, HBS professor Josh Lerner and London School of Economics professor Mark Schankerman... View Details
      Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

        Jorge Colmenares

        Jorge Colmenares graduated from Yale College in 2020, where he studied Economics and Mathematics. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a research assistant for Profs. Lawrence Schmidt and Taha Choukhmane at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research... View Details

        • December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
        • Case

        USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth

        For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Soviet Union
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          Ananth Raman

          Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

          Keywords: apparel; retailing; software
          • October 2012
          • Case

          Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)

          By: Sandra J. Sucher and Elena Corsi
          Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In May 2009, Peter Voser, CFO and soon-to-be CEO, wants to adjust the company's business, headcount, and cost levels to... View Details
          Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Managerial Roles; Restructuring; Resignation and Termination; Diversity; Financial Crisis; Energy Industry; Netherlands
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            Susanna Gallani

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            Keywords: health care

              Aiyesha Dey

              Aiyesha Dey has been part of the Accounting and Management unit at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since July 2017. She started her career as an accounting faulty at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, after which she joined the accounting group at... View Details

                Rebecca A. Karp

                Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Karp is a field researcher and ethnographer. Her research examines how companies formulate and... View Details

                • 18 Jul 2017
                • First Look

                First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

                preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By:... View Details
                Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
                • November 2023 (Revised February 2025)
                • Background Note

                Corporate Climate Targets

                By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
                Companies that are addressing climate change by mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions often set reduction targets. This note describes several types of widely used carbon reduction targets, including carbon neutral, science based, net zero, real zero, and carbon... View Details
                Keywords: Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Strategy; Climate Risk; Target-setting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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                  Jeffrey J. Bussgang

                  General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

                  Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

                  Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

                  • Spring 2012
                  • Article

                  The Roadmap for Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge Funds in Mexico: Alternative Assets as an Accelerator of Credit to Firms in Emerging Markets

                  By: Roberto Charvel
                  This article shows how alternative assets could be a good way for banks to start providing more loans to firms in emerging markets and finance growth, while giving local institutional investors access to new asset types. View Details
                  Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Latin America; Mexico; Financial Intermediaries; Entrepreneurial Finance; Hedge Fund; Alternative Assets; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Private Sector; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Credit; Equity; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North America
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                  • September 2007 (Revised May 2011)
                  • Case

                  Commercializing an MRI Breakthrough

                  The challenges and best strategies for the commercialization of university technologies are illustrated in this case which documents an MRI breakthrough that arose from the Charles Marcus laboratory at Harvard. Students discuss the interdependencies of intellectual... View Details
                  Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Patents; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
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                  • 01 Dec 2021
                  • What Do You Think?

                  How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

                  (iStockphoto/tolgart) In 1992, the very funny cyberpunk novelist Neal Stephenson brought “the pizza Deliverator,” also known as Hiro Protagonist, to life along with the notion of the Metaverse in his book Snow Crash. Hiro, a “member View Details
                  Keywords: by James Heskett
                  • January 2003 (Revised May 2005)
                  • Case

                  Zipcar: Refining the Business Model

                  By: Myra M. Hart, Michael J. Roberts and Julia Stevens
                  Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar business model and financial plan. These iterations include a very early version and a version developed just prior... View Details
                  Keywords: Service Operations; Renting or Rental; Business Model; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Management Skills; Transportation; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Transportation Industry; Service Industry
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                    D. Quinn Mills

                    Daniel Quinn Mills provides thought leadership in several fields including leadership, strategy, venture capital, finance, economics and geopolitics.  He has been a director of publicly-listed firms and is currently a director of several closely-held private... View Details

                    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; brokerage; computer; construction; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; information technology industry; investment banking industry; management consulting; professional services; publishing industry; venture capital industry

                      Rohit Deshpande

                      Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

                      Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games