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  • February 2018
  • Case

Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Healthcare Costs; Health Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States
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  • September–October 2020
  • Article

Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value

By: George Serafeim
Until the mid-2010s few investors paid attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data—information about companies’ carbon footprints, labor policies, board makeup, and so forth. Today the data is widely used by investors. How can organizations create... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Social Impact; Impact Measurement; Social Innovation; Purpose; Corporate Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Society; Accounting; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; Chemical Industry; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; North America; Europe; Japan; Australia
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    Benjamin (Ben) Creo

    Benjamin Creo co-teaches the Innovating in Health Care course alongside its founder, Prof. Regina E. Herzlinger. While many courses in healthcare innovation focus on where to innovate, this course focuses on how to innovate. Its four modules discuss how to evaluate... View Details

    • Summer, 2021
    • Article

    The Economics of Energy Efficiency in Developing Countries

    By: Meredith Fowlie and Robyn C. Meeks
    Almost all of the world’s energy demand growth is projected to occur in low- and medium-income countries (LMICs). Targeted energy efficiency investments have the potential to mitigate tensions between economic growth objectives and sustainable development commitments.... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy; Energy Policy
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    • May 2016 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

    By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
    Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride as opposed to the 20-30%... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston
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    • 24 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

    manufacturers initially aren't well connected to the user community, but they have capital and the capabilities to run high-volume production and distribution systems. However, they must earn a return on their investment over time, hence... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 02 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

    sudden dramatic failure and more a story of ongoing competition at the platform level. The presence of competing platforms like Linux requires that Microsoft continue to invest in its IP base and integrate new View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 31, 2009

    Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • February 2012 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    What's the Deal with LivingSocial?

    By: Michael I. Norton, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman and Marco Bertini
    Tim O'Shaughnessy, the 29-year-old CEO of LivingSocial, is growing a revolutionary worldwide business of "daily deals"—in which retailers offer a heavily-discounted product or service available for purchase for brief (often 24-hour) windows. The case explores the... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Advertising; Brands and Branding; Management; Web Services Industry
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    • January 2008
    • Article

    Learning the Fine Art of Collaboration

    By: Alan MacCormack and Theodore Forbath
    Innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities and operating in a coordinated manner. This collaborative model demands that firms develop different skills, yet despite this need, there is little guidance... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms
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    • 14 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 14, 2010

    http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Apr 2015
    • News

    How to Identify a Bad Investor

    • 07 May 2025
    • Video

    Climate Rising: Advancing the Circular Economy with Lauren Rodriguez of Closed Loop Partners

      Michael S. Kaufman

      A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.” 

      A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details

        William R. Kerr

        William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry

          Srikant M. Datar

          Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

          Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry

            Christina R. Wing

            Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

              The Challenge of Digital Transformation

              The ubiquity of digital technology and internet connectivity is driving both new and old players across all industries to invest in new capabilities, define new business models, and compete in new ways. From software to automobiles, from healthcare to financial... View Details
              • June 1998 (Revised August 2001)
              • Case

              Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (A)

              By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest
              Wells Fargo, the industry leader in electronic banking, has implemented a Balanced Scorecard in its online financial services group (OFS) to track and measure performance. The OFS group develops and supports services that allow existing and future banking customers to... View Details
              Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Finance; Change; Situation or Environment; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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              • August 2007 (Revised June 2020)
              • Case

              Trouble with a Bubble

              By: Tom Nicholas
              Examines technology, firm performance, and the stock market during the 1929 Great Crash and the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 1920s was an extraordinary period of technological progress marked by a strong run-up in stock market prices. Firms invested heavily in... View Details
              Keywords: Bubble; Stock Market; Great Depression; Irving Fisher; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; History; Financial Markets; Performance; Labor and Management Relations; Equity; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; United States
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