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- 2013
- Report
Partial Credit: How America's School Superintendents See Business as a Partner
By: Jan Rivkin
This report presents the findings of the first-ever national survey of school superintendents on U.S. competitiveness and the role of business in improving education outcomes in the U.S., including specific actions that business leaders can take to support... View Details
Keywords: PK - 12 Education; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Cooperation; United States
Rivkin, Jan. "Partial Credit: How America's School Superintendents See Business as a Partner." Report, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, November 2013.
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
interactions with faculty and alumni, competitions, and programming provide a launch pad for these students. Further, all MBA students take a required course that introduces them to thinking like an entrepreneurial manager. This section offers an exploration of HBS’s... View Details
- 27 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
Singapore, offering an in-depth exploration of the country's ecosystem with particular focus on the government’s efforts to facilitate an innovation hub that is durable and relevant. The course is specifically designed to expose and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
to make a concrete recommendation about where to draw the line between the closed and the open parts of an ecosystem like this one, but fundamentally, it is not an either-or proposition. Management should set smart criteria for... View Details
- November 22, 2021
- Article
Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
In supply-chain management, you get what you plan for. Companies understand that principle when it comes to the goods that they consume and produce, but not when it comes to the people they hire and train. For decades, companies have adopted a short-term, ad hoc... View Details
Fuller, Joseph B., and Matthew Sigelman. "Manage Your Talent Pipeline Like a Supply Chain." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 22, 2021).
- Web
Rhea Acharya | MBA
to daily calls with founders and formal investment committee meetings painted a holistic picture of the entrepreneurial ecosystem — and the synergy between technology and business necessary to solve tangible problems. In fact, the fund... View Details
- December 2018 (Revised March 2021)
- Background Note
Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence
By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
This primer is meant to be a field guide to the late 2010s' surge in business use of "Artificial Intelligence" (AI), or enterprise software based in machine learning. First, it provides an overview of the key trends—digitization, connectivity, the continuation of... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Digitization; Connectivity; Computing; Future Of Work; Automation; AI and Machine Learning
Kerr, William R., and James Palano. "Modern Automation (A): Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Background Note 819-084, December 2018. (Revised March 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
to realize its potential as a fintech hub is a blueprint—offering concrete lessons about how cities can build their own entrepreneurial ecosystem from scratch. On paper, New York City should have dominated fintech from day one. It has a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
research ecosystem have delayed the delivery of lifesaving advances. Think of it as a plumbing problem: The third-floor shower in an old house doesn’t have enough water pressure. The problem may be with the third-floor pipe, but it’s far... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
wider. What the process looks like In their new paper, the writers expand upon the process necessary to put inclusive growth strategies into action. Ideation. “Someone has to see the opportunity for creating an ecosystem that builds a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- May 2019
- Supplement
Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement discusses Amazon’s 2018 decision to split its HQ2 between two locations--Long Island City in New York and National Landing outside Washington, DC—as well as the ensuing response from local politicians and the public. View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Headquarters; Local Government; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics
Mills, Karen, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-465, May 2019.
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
future success. The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Iansiti and his coauthor argue that business ecosystems work in much the same way as biological View Details
- 28 Jan 2022
- News
Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots
- Sep 2015
- Report
Business Aligning for Students: The Promise of Collective Impact
who want to understand better why pre-K-12 education ecosystem change is essential, what Collective Impact is and what it might achieve, and how they can get involved in this promising new approach. View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
That was the beginning of what we realized was a very powerful way of fundraising. When donations are matched, people give more money, and they give more often.” “It’s amazing how many different things we’re able to impact. It’s this rich View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
leading to more advancements. The issue they discovered was that the structure of the cure ecosystem wasn’t built around business efficiencies. Organizations, which are often solely research-focused, could achieve so much more by building... View Details
- Career Coach
Juan Pablo Botero
transition into the entrepreneurial world. Juan Pablo can help students navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem and resources available at HBS, offering practical advice on which resources are most useful given a student's particular... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Ryan Lee
Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Production; Education; Business and Community Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Education Industry
Rivkin, Jan W., and Ryan Lee. "Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-434, October 2013. (Revised November 2015.)