Publications

01 Sep 2013
News

Leading the Way

unveiled The Harvard Campaign, which aims to strengthen the University's financial foundations and enable new investments and initiatives. As part of this endeavor, The Harvard Business School Campaign—set to launch in April 2014—aims to find new View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Research Summary

Gun Violence in the United States

By: Deepak Malhotra

My colleagues and I are studying gun violence from two perspectives. First, how do events like mass shootings impact gun policy? Do they have any effect? We find that they do, but not in the way most people would expect. Second, we are studying which types of gun... View Details

January 2014 (Revised May 2014)
Background Note

Rail Transportation in the United States

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Guilford

In the 20th century, automobiles and airlines pushed rail into the background as an often-troubled and neglected mode. After a review of the long history of rail in the U.S., this paper examines the situation in the 21st century, including the rail market structure,... View Details

Keywords: Railroad History; History; Rail Transportation; Rail Industry

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Kresge Way | About

Kresge Way Stanley S. Kresge Kresge Way is named in honor of Sebastian S. Kresge in recognition of support from the Kresge Foundation. Kresge Way runs along the base of the... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

Jan 2014
Case

Rail Transportation in the United States

structured way of thinking through the issues facing rail transportation and discusses three recent freight rail infrastructure projects that hold promise for the future: the National Gateway, the Keystone Corridor, and the CREATE... View Details

November 2022
Case

GE: A New Way Forward?

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert

One of the most iconic American companies, General Electric (GE) was founded in 1892 in New York state. Named among the original dozen companies on the Dow Jones index in 1896, it was the list’s most tenacious holdout, maintaining its “blue chip” stock status for over... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; GE; Conglomerate; Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy; Management; History; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Transformation; Strategic Planning; Value Creation; New York (state, US)

August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
Case

Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States

By: Laura Alfaro, Mauricio Larrain, Carlos Vilches and Sarah Jeong

On May 26, 2020, Latam Airlines became the largest airline in the world to be driven to bankruptcy by COVID-19. With a complex debt structure and international investor composition, the company decided to file for bankruptcy protection in the United States, which... View Details

Keywords: Airlines; Pandemic; Coronavirus Pandemic; Health Pandemics; Air Transportation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Capital Markets; Strategy; Latin America; Chile; United States

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

stems from the Catholic Worker movement's personalist tradition, which means that Haley House staff and volunteers work intensely with small numbers of people as a way of trying to create deeper change in them. Haley House launched the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Giving Ways to Give Today Giving Ways to Give Today Show Your Support There are many ways to make your gift to Harvard Business School Your Gift Matters $250 $500 $1,000 $5,000... View Details

07 Nov 2013
News

Manufacturing may be on its way back

24 Apr 2014
News

The way to measure success

Partners HealthCare, Boston Children’s Hospital, United Way of Massachusetts, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and dozens of educational institutions, including Harvard Business... View Details

01 Nov 2016
News

Paving the Way to College

low-income kids the same advantages that my son had. “College Match is a nonprofit organization that helps low-income kids get into the best colleges of the country the same way upper-class kids have been doing for decades. “We pick these... View Details

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

associate professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit at Harvard Business School, asks in a new working paper, Who Runs the International System? Power and Staffing at the United... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

impact fund connected to Oxfam in the United Kingdom, says she recently helped another WomenExecs member professionalize her profile. “She had recovered from breast cancer, was in a full-time role, and was also doing elder care for an... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

have much money to begin with can make savings more feasible or more fun, or both. Given the diversity of financial conditions, social settings, and personal circumstances of families, and against the backdrop of consumerism in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

other academic institution in the world. For three-quarters of a century, the Bulletin has tracked the extraordinary record of achievement of HBS alumni. And so it seems fitting that at the dawn of a new millennium, we should draw upon the vast experience and knowledge... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

May 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way

By: Christina R. Wing, Robert F. White and Michael Norris

In 2019, Bill Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation and billionaire signer of the Giving Pledge, is winding down his roles at his company and foundation. How should the management move the company forward? View Details

Keywords: Real Estate Development; Philanthropy; Family Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Management Succession; Real Estate Industry; United States; Boston