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  • September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma
In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Information Technology; Ownership; Social Psychology; Trust; Society; Biotechnology Industry; South America; Amazon Basin
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  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

free-market capitalist who realizes capitalism has no place in healthcare provision." But Tery Tennant asks what is perhaps the ultimate philosophical question: " when did an individual's medical needs become an inalienable right that the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

data needed for improving the quality in all industries. I am specifically interested in the area of biological sensors and the power they have to convert a biological response into an electrical signal. Through this conversion, analysis... View Details
  • Web

Latin America - Global

economic inequality in Mexico and beyond. Participants engaged in thought-provoking discussions on navigating the evolving expectations of business in society. The conversation focused on actionable measures for Latin American firms to address inequality, highlighting... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

quantify the innovation risks and opportunities that recalls pose in one of the most R&D-intensive industries, medical technology. Product failures in medtech, where the cost to bring a device to the market can top $90 million, can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

regions and emerging industries, allow for longer time horizons, and take more risk than traditional investors. Impact funds tend to prioritize consumer staples, energy, financials, industrials, materials, real estate, and utilities.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

That was evident in the flood of responses the Bulletin received when we asked readers to share their stories. From these submissions, it’s also apparent that age, experience, and success are not determining factors, as the phenomenon can... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • July 2020
  • Case

King's College Hospital in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom
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  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable By: George Serafeim Article Transition to Clean Technology By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy

By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Business Strategy
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  • November 2017
  • Case

The 'Wonder Drug' That Killed Babies

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Tom Nicholas and Matthew Preble
In the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History; Health; Government Legislation; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; Europe
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  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business School Case 907-414 McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2018
  • Article

Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience

By: Bradley R. Staats, Diwas S. KC and F. Gino
Many models in operations management involve dynamic decision making that assumes optimal updating in response to information revelation. However, behavioral theory suggests that rather than updating their beliefs, individuals may persevere in their prior beliefs. In... View Details
Keywords: Information; Announcements; Service Operations; Decision Making; Medical Specialties; Experience and Expertise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • Web

General Management - Faculty & Research

self-regulation proved an inadequate response to climate change, and resulted in confusing metrics, lack of transparency, and blatant greenwashing. Yet it is a not apparent that government regulation was practical or would have produced... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

agencies with cumulative budgets of $2 billion and 3,000 employees. At the beginning of COVID, she focused on the state’s emergency response, sourcing, vetting, and purchasing PPE and medical supplies. She... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

employer. That’s the general message that comes through in responses to this month’s column. Some respondents suggested that it is only natural to find different strategies depending on the nature of the business. As Himanshu Pant pointed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

activity. We examine the responses of U.S.-based MNEs and domestic industrial production to a set of IPR reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. Following reform, MNEs expand the scale of their activities. MNEs that make extensive use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Faculty & Research - Global

inadequate response to climate change, and resulted in confusing metrics, lack of transparency, and blatant greenwashing. Yet it is a not apparent that government regulation was practical or would have produced better results. The... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

team developed a pilot to create a new AI medical note summarization tool that proved highly useful to pediatricians. As DaSilva looked forward, she considered whether to integrate AI more deeply at Summer Health, even at the expense of... View Details