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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"―delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Competitive Advantage
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  • April 2004
  • Case

D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca Henderson
D-Wave Systems is a start-up seeking to commercialize a quantum computer. Its business model is unique: as of 2003, it had very few technical resources within the firm. Instead, it financed a series of projects undertaken at universities and government labs. In return... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Engineering; Investment; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Computer Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The HBS Fund

Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders

make it work in Brazil, but they only had a middle-school level education and ultimately decided to start over and immigrate to Boston where my uncle had lived,” said Westphal. “I stayed behind in Brazil with my older sisters for some time, but I was View Details
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school, and college at Smith College in... View Details
  • Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. Rebecca View Details
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • News

Maximum Cities

neighborhoods in Bombay go without it for six hours at a stretch, Nohria remarked. Cities, he continued, "are the perfect laboratory to study these issues." Sponsored by HBS's Business and Environment Initiative and cochaired View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 09 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

concerns can save lives, which directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team members unite under a common goal. By extension,... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)

When Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019) arrived at Harvard Business School in 2017, his goals were clear. He wanted to build the skills necessary to be a leader who makes a difference in the world. Now as CEO of Farmasiet.no, Norway’s largest online pharmacy, Furuseth... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

everything. In school and in her career, she enjoyed starting as a generalist before specializing and was energized by exploring industries and functions. The consulting world, specifically McKinsey, offered that exact opportunity. “I... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

How to Come Out at Work

company and introducing me to the Pride Employee Resource Group at my company,” Davis shared. “This immediately made me feel welcomed and that there were other folks like me at the company.” Zwart added “In my first company, they were so affirming and actively helped... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

by their B2B supply-chain focus,” Sani shared. “The importance of reducing food waste also hit me like a sack of potatoes. About a third of food created is wasted. Not only does that make it more difficult to feed the earth’s growing... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2022
  • News

Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?

  • 02 Oct 2020
  • News

Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy in a Post-COVID World

  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

business school was the right next step for her to build a career in the fashion industry. “Around the time I left Parson’s, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004) and Alexis Maybank (MBA 2004), co-founders of Gilt Groupe, had released their book View Details
  • December 2019 (Revised December 2020)
  • Technical Note

A Short Note on Fiduciary Duties

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Rebecca Henderson and Amy W. Schulman
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  • 19 May 2016
  • News

Faculty Offer Words of Wisdom for Graduates

  • 07 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

consumer research around the world to understand what people hoped their skincare products could do,” Twist explained. “I was also fortunate to learn from and be developed by several HBS alums (every leader on the Clinique Global... View Details
  • Article

Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

By: Jeffrey Furman, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson
Keywords: Geographic Location; Knowledge; Health; Research
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  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

managing performance, but also translates it into ESG metrics relevant to their industry. “The metrics we use are based on the latest academic research (including research from HBS professors Rebecca View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology