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  • June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

corporations, which are under increasing pressure to demonstrate corporate social responsibility in addition to generating profits. She acknowledges that the idea could be a tough sell. “If I went to a corporation and said, ‘Well,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

individuals, as in a team) and gave them collective responsibility for a whole task. We conceptualized the mesolevel structures as team scaffolds and found that they embodied the logic of both role and team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2009 (Revised January 2015)
  • Case

Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Charles J. Ogletree Jr, Howard Koh, Abbye Atkinson, Carmel Salhi and Aldo Sesia
"Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum" charts the many different career paths of Hooks, a civil rights activist and pioneer. Hooks' positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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  • 04 Mar 2009
  • Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

In this recession, we seek the bogey. If we can identify a villain, the recourse is simple: slay (or neutralize, or bail out) it. The search harks back to a management primer: identify the problem; find the solution. The search has centered on the credit industry: the... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

mutations. As a general rule, the university alters itself only in thoughtful response to significant needs and opportunities. Entrepreneurism occurs within fixed bounds; there is rarely revolution of the... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • 28 Apr 2008
  • HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart, showing how Frey Farms could share the responsibility View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

behavioral self-control. Finally, Experiment 5 showed that the absence of a self-control conflict eliminated the effect of rituals on behavior, demonstrating that rituals affect behavioral self-control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Beatriz Fernández

    Keywords: Food Service
    • 07 Nov 2007
    • Op-Ed

    How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

    damage to Apple brand equity among its core customers. After heavy blogging complaints about Apple exploiting its loyal followers, Steve Jobs had to apologize publicly (after a curt "That's technology" response fueled the fire)... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
    • 03 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 2)

    despite having these same qualities, aren’t in school due to circumstances out of their control. I am grateful to represent my family and friends at HBS. I view it as my responsibility to imbibe learnings in... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Embracing Activism for Social Change

    In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

    social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 11

    environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Connecting With Nonprofits

    or goods made in response to requests from nonprofits. The level of engagement and resources is relatively low, infrequent, simple, and nonstrategic. It is basically a check-writing relationship. The giver... View Details
    Keywords: by James Austin
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

    comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 12, 2006

    for-profit science diffuses through the academy. Using adjusted proportional hazards models to analyze case-cohort data, the authors find evidence that the orientation toward commercial science of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne