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  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

reader interest in an interview with Merck CEO Ken Frazier, who talked candidly about prospects for COVID-19 vaccines and racism in the workplace. Here are our most popular articles, research papers, and social media posts of 2020. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick - Or Keep You Well

    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day Reflections

    it is critical to find effective ways to support far-reaching change in both products and processes across our entire economy. My current research focuses on large organizations that are attempting to take advantage of View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • Web

    Business & Environment

    Research Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna SEPTEMBER 2025 | Journal of... View Details
    • 15 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 15, 2016

    neglect the unit managers’ knowledge about which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized hiring to centralized hiring at our research... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2022
    • Book

    Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

    By: George Serafeim
    The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

    We not only... View Details
    Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • 08 Jan 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

    world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ performance to such an extent that it is a rational decision to take... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 22 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Juliet Schor, Boston College

    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

    Rams would also seem to suggest wisdom in the strategy. While taking the league by storm in his first two seasons, McVay has shown some of the qualities we outlined in our previous piece, What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant, that indicate a... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • 15 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 15, 2016

    Path and having been awarded a major World Bank grant, several challenges nonetheless remain including regional war and turmoil, sustainable funding, tensions over the Path's activities in Israel, and possible next steps for the... View Details
    • October 2020
    • Article

    Collusion in Markets with Syndication

    By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
    Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details
    Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

    • 09 Feb 2012
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

    viewer. New experimental research by Thales S. Teixeira looks at how advertisers can effectively capture and keep viewers' attention by evoking certain emotional responses.Key concepts include: In a recent experiment, participants watched... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
    • 09 Apr 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

    Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Research Summary

    Corporate transparency and information disclosure strategies

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    This research focuses on transparency and information disclosure strategies, a topic of growing importance in environmental sustainability, corporate strategy, stakeholder relations, and public policy.  My prior research in this area explored why... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Disclosure Strategy; Disclosure; Environment; Environmental Performance; Regulation; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; United States
    • March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
    • Case

    Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

    By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders
    Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Design; Entrepreneurs; Creative Industries; CONSULTING Firms; Energy; Design; Governance; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Labor; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Strategy; Value; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 26 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

    did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
    • 21 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 21

    patients. Claritas wanted to increase the speed at which genomic research discoveries occurred and translate this research into better diagnostic tests. To achieve this, it planned to collaborate with other... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

    2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices.  (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel