Transformative Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 May 2015
Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

to share ideas and interests where you quickly find people to connect and debate with inside and outside of the classroom. How do you think the section set up impacts the academic environment at HBS?Philipp: The group of 90 is extremely... View Details

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

what matters most.” Respondents suggested that not everything can be achieved by remote leadership. Goldshlager commented that if remote leadership “would like to turn-around or transform their operations, they probably need a strong... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

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MBA Program - Alumni

Giving MBA Program Giving MBA Program Enhance Learning Ensure a transformational educational experience The MBA Program is the cornerstone of HBS’s educational offerings. Ongoing innovation in teaching and learning, as well as the... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of the Electric Power Board of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Q3Q4 3.0 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed under Strategy) David G. Fubini Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Power and Influence for Positive Impact Julie Battilana Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Turnarounds and View Details

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

resource constraints (potentially affecting unfairness concerns) can impact outcomes under the plan. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55144 Summer 2018 Antitrust Chronicle An Introduction to the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

developments in artificial intelligence are creating similar shocks to the economy – from new perspectives on value creation and value capture, to radical transformations of business and operating models. This shift not only View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

process redesign. Over the years, the CIO job has remained a hot seat in business and has, in turn, become a key management position in executing a company's competitive cost structure and strategy. It has become a key senior management position that can enable... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Working Paper

Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry

By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano

An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Diversification; Market Entry and Exit; Transformation

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ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Value-Based Health Care Delivery framework. Transforming Health Care The pioneering book Redefining Health Care , by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisburg, articulates the case for focusing health care on value and its composites of... View Details

07 Jun 2021
Blog Post

The Value of the HBS Case Method – Lessons from an SVMP Participant

admission to a school like Harvard was a pursuit far above my head, something I had seen on television but not so much in my neighborhood. I have always envisioned myself as a leader in the business world, with hopes of not just leading an organization, but using my... View Details

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

at times of low market liquidity. We provide evidence suggesting that mutual funds’ cash holdings are not large enough to fully mitigate price impact externalities created by the liquidity transformation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

fuzzy logic, and you have the makings of Nicholas Carr's article. Carr's examples of railroads and electric power played out over eighty years, (not forty, as he suggests), turning society, business organizations, and lifestyles inside out. The deeper societal View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

26 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 26

combined to offset separate bills' costs while preserving their net benefits. We argue this method can transform unpopular individual pieces of legislation, which would lack the support for implementation, into more popular policies.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

observed. In addition, a number of my colleagues are imagining inviting faculty who are interested in teaching our materials to observe classes virtually. We see opportunities to reach many more leaders than ever before so they too can benefit from our View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award for Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation with Umit Gurun, Scott Kominers, 2015–2021. Lauren H. Cohen : Recipient of a 2021 Top Cited Article Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

constant link to the Web that will place today's 56k modem in the history books next to the UNIVAC—promises to transform the advertising industry. Currently only about 1.4 million U.S. households have a high-speed Internet hookup, but... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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