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  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Financial Services 24/7

Wingspanbank was created completely outside the Bank One structure. From a consumer's point of view, there is no visible relationship between the two banks. While there is some pooling of technology and personnel, economies of scale are... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 May 2015
  • News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

more complex world, and to increase our scale and reach to bring our mission to even more people, requires a relentless dedication to innovation." John Hess, CEO of the Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good and the 2009 Harvard Business Review article "Mergers That Stick." Investment bankers and lawyers still hold sway, and the regulators still must approve the merger of American... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat... View Details
  • May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
  • Case

MassChallenge

By: Rembrand Koning, Andy Wu, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Tarun Khanna
The case explores the strategic decision of global non-profit startup accelerator MassChallenge on whether to pursue a for-profit spinoff, discussing: (1) the costs and benefits of this decision, (2) how best to manage the risks of the decision, and (3) alternative... View Details
Keywords: Accelerators; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Startups; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Decision Making; Strategy
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  • July 2009
  • Teaching Note

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis (TN)

By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Ben Creo
Teaching Note for [408003]. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Research; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Financing and Loans; Leadership; Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Health Testing and Trials; Miami
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  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green building represents. The contributors consider the changes associated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shifts in professional expertise created... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

multinational enterprises who want to help reduce poverty, what would be some practical first steps you would suggest they take? A: Many big companies are now spending substantial amounts of time and money on being "socially... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • Web

America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge

demographic features to each ZIP code, including average income and education data. "The data allowed us to measure with unprecedented precision and scale the actual usage of technology in households," Sadun says. In measuring digital... View Details
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

attracted criticism for its purely empirical approach, its failure to make consistently accurate predictions, and its pursuit of commercial objectives in a university setting. Harvard's efforts to build a forecasting service are an early chapter in the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

management. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400618 October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic Approach to Global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the geometric mean (or some other function) of its two highest valuations. The utilities are scaled so that the market clears with the participants' purchases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2018
  • Case

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Communications; Performance; Programs; Projects; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

to firms that are finding themselves outside the action as the clout of a handful of cities grows. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54944 forthcoming Marketing Science U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

generating a brand book for Israel that suggested a guiding brand position of “creative energy”; inviting social media influencers to partake in trips focused on lifestyle interests; generating appealing, non-conflict related content... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

of Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna, the Henry B. Arthur Fellow of business ethics at Harvard Business School. In a nutshell, the case goes like this: "Jim" accepts a summer internship as a loan officer from a US-based social... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

separate track for social enterprise ventures, and in 2009 the contest opened to first-year students with the understanding that it shouldn't detract from coursework preparations. “If you look at the quality... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education