Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

working on? A: I'm working on several cases right now, most of which deal with the pharmaceutical industry and the ways in which pharmaceutical firms manage through the political dilemmas that often confront them. I'm also beginning to explore a new View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

are disproportionately affected by climate change. Her project in Nepal brings together technology, government, and electric utilities to determine how rural, isolated communities—and their citizens and businesses—can increase the... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

step back and ask, What are the big projects that we want to work on, and who will be dedicated to these projects? When we had 282 projects, nobody was dedicated 100 percent to anything. Now we have dedicated teams.” Gaining control over... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

activities. We disagree and argue that risk management should function as a Revealing Hand to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in a cost-efficient manner. Done well, the Revealing Hand of risk management adds value to firms by allowing them to take on riskier View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Sep 2011
News

The Spangler Effect

All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student study sessions in View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

other leisure boats, and set amongst dramatic coastline, the project would transform the region. Coordinating the many stakeholders in a new country, Jack has to decide the best way to navigate the development risks and whether the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

editors at Harvard Business Press, suggested the Times project to me; and as a historian I thought it would be a terrific opportunity to gain deep exposure to the primary source reporting that newspapers afford. When I was doing research... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

allowing some big projects to get the lion's share of funding, while more experimental entrepreneurs lose out. "It would be a winner take all kind of market," says Lerner with a shrug. "VC has always been an unfair game,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

debt limits. Suffice it to say that cutting a little over $2 trillion from the projected ten-year deficit is akin to losing seven pounds off a starting weight of 350. We will still have accumulated deficits over that time frame of $7... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

mainly on questions of social identities and morality. Moral Gray Zones was an attempt to explore this interplay in the context of a community with strong norms—craftsmen in a low-turnover factory setting. This led me to want to explore similar issues in the absence of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2021
News

Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

almost implies a consumer Internet bubble, with a number of me-too projects that will continue to get funded. We simply do not ever want to be chasing hot sectors. As we think about Internet opportunities, Web 2.0 would no longer... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the Economy Group. She received her PhD in Business Economics from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and she was a Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Professor Delgado works on joint research View Details

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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

project was having that would be showcasing the market-ready PhD project students. These are PhD students who are underrepresented minorities. Just a little suggestion that they might come and we had by far... View Details

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

learns that the most profitable 1% of the division's customers generate 100% of profits, and that two of the division's largest customers lose 50% of profits. The division has just finished a project to install a time-driven... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this... View Details