Economic Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

areas of focus to help move the needle on climate action. The initiative is especially active on the curriculum front through facilitating the development of innovative cases, teaching notes, and other materials, both for use in the HBS... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Teaching Teachers

Casado says, students of fellow CPCL alum Michael T. Bendixen visited the FEA from the Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet with faculty and graduate students and learn more about the university's approach to teaching and research as well as the... View Details

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

07 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?

confident in my business-related quantitative skills coming into HBS. I had never taken a single economics class in my life and had no exposure – and I truly mean zero – to accounting or finance. In fact, View Details

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

quickly and efficiently for COVID-19 in the US, he says. The training modules cover four areas including epidemic surveillance; maternal and child health care; identifying Malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV; and referrals and chronic disease care. Adjusting the model The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and adding enticements such as soft... View Details

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708491 Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Harvard Business School Case 508-072 In April 2007, Bill Gates announced Microsoft Unlimited Potential. Its mission was to enable social and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2000
News

No Place Like Home

increasingly scarce. How serious is the problem? It's a tale of two Americas, the best of times and worst of times if you're a consumer in the current U.S. housing market. On the plus side, thanks to the 1990s' economic boom, some... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

June 2011
Case

Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market

By: Luis Viceira, Elena Corsi and Ruth Dittrich

An advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with... View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment Funds; Marketing Strategy; Financial Crisis; Sales; Leadership Development; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Business Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Globalized Economies and Regions; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Europe

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Policy - Business & Environment

address climate change as we seek to use our campus as a testbed to collaboratively achieve what the science tells us we must— zero emissions by 2050.” Heather Henriksen Managing Director, Harvard Office for Sustainability Robert Stavins A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

capital processes to create value for its peripheral technologies. If there were promising technologies within Xerox that were not being utilized in Xerox's businesses, XTV provided a new path for them to enter the market. If that technology subsequently created... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound.... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2003
News

Patrick Moreton

will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational models of business strategy,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

a company to develop new productivity software was a complete non-starter. No sane VC would or should fund a venture to compete with the Microsoft monopoly." Even though his project is in the early stages, over 33,000 people... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

leaders in society, and the ed-ucational priorities that are behind the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by HBS. Looking back on the past year, the School — like other institutions around the world — faced a number of challenges, including the View Details

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General Management Candace Bertotti Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Thomas J. DeLong , Monique Burns Thompson Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Authentic Leader Development... View Details

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