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  • 2000
  • Book

Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Management; Social Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

Frank V. Cespedes, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 709-441 In 2008, concert producer and promoter Live Nation faces a decision about its strategy in light of the tumultuous changes in the music... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2023 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Nelson Mandela: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the rise of Nelson Mandela from his tribal home in South Africa to president of the country. Rejecting expectations that he would be a tribal leader, Mandela instead dedicates his life to fighting Apartheid. After peaceful approaches fail, he joins... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; South Africa
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  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 2023
  • Article

Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models

By: Satyapriya Krishna, Jiaqi Ma, Dylan Slack, Asma Ghandeharioun, Sameer Singh and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in performing complex tasks. Moreover, recent research has shown that incorporating human-annotated rationales (e.g., Chain-of-Thought prompting) during in-context learning can significantly enhance... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Performance Effectiveness
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  • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
  • Background Note

Making UK Energy Smarter

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

the idea of completing a set, even if it means working harder or spending more money—with no additional reward other than the satisfaction of completion and the relief of avoiding an incomplete set. Imagine arriving at your boss’s summer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2021
  • Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

narrative and turn stressful moments into meaningful ones. Expect to do well How we think about an outcome influences our actual results. This insight has been demonstrated for years through the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

on boards and committees in support of the arts. He died in 1989. The brothers’ commitment to the visual arts influenced the Burden family’s philanthropic support of Harvard. In addition to Burden Hall with... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 10 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

how effective these online interventions are at shaping public health outcomes. The research team found that the average campaign shifted self-reported outcomes close to 1 percent of baseline estimates, and it cost about $3.41 to View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology
  • October 2019
  • Case

Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
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    Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

    One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

    Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Video Blog: Why I Decided to Pursue an MBA at HBS

    of helping to influence others, to create impact, but also to some extent hopefully to be taken seriously in the workplace and things like that. So those are the three primary drivers for wanting to pursue... View Details
    • 19 Dec 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Political Economy of Capitalism

    Keywords: by Bruce R. Scott
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
    Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
    • 14 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Morality Rebooted: Exploring Simple Fixes to Our Moral Bugs

    Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Max H. Bazerman
    • 01 Jun 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

    the company, not the person. A bus might come by and knock the (top) person over." There are several assumptions implicit in these two items. First, there are limits within which pay can elicit performance. Above a certain amount of... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Web

    HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

    Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details
    • 27 Nov 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand

    media marketing that attempts to engage consumers with a playful approach can end up not funny at all. Research Papers Assessing the Impact of CEO ActivismEvidence on how CEO activism can influence public opinions about government... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • Portrait Project

    Samrath Oberoi

    As a Dhol (drum) player, I was introduced to powerful beats at an early age. Mere training of the beats, though, wasn’t enough. My maturity as an artist came from understanding the artistic meaning behind the white spaces – the moments of... View Details