Focusing On Customers - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

across the country. Our recent field trip to India provided valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with decarbonization, particularly focusing on the financing aspects. Based... View Details

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

Classmates: The idea for my startup Getaway formed just before arriving on HBS’ campus. The ninety people in my section and the nine hundred in my class have left their own lasting mark on the company.... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

With people all over the world beginning to get COVID-19 vaccines, most of the press coverage so far has focused on its amazing development. What’s receiving less attention is a critical last-mile issue that... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

focused on leadership, organizational behavior, managing human capital, and career management. His new book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire, was recently... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

as the tons of steel produced in blast oxygen furnaces in any given country. Comin focused on intensive margins in his working paper "The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption," coauthored with Martí... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

even when they fail, staying focused on their end goal. Their determination forces them to pick themselves up after they lose to try to win again. They defy others' expectations that they will fail. They are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

regard, helping to open and secure support. "It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed." McFarlan has spent the past 40 years serving on social enterprise boards, helping organizations find the right leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

while she worked at BrainHeart Energy. She has since founded Antarez Global Impact Capital, which is focusing on investment in large-scale sustainable infrastructure. As a board member for the HBS Club of... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

more optimistic than in prior years about the future of human space exploration via non-government firms. Mission Statement: VIRGIN GALACTIC “Our mission, to be the Spaceline for Earth, means we focus on using space for good while... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

On Facebook and a myriad of other social media platforms, you can find out who your friends are dating, see pictures of their last vacation, and even know what they had for lunch yesterday. It is now becoming more unusual when someone... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

of Business Administration Amy W. Schulman joined Harvard Business School’s Faculty as a Senior Lecturer in July 2014.In addition to her responsibilities at Harvard, Ms. Schulman is a managing partner at Polaris Partners, who focuses... View Details

11 Feb 2021
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ali Evans (MBA 2019)

technology companies. I spend most of my time focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities in the healthcare technology sector. Additionally, I serve View Details

February 2008
Exercise

Gerson Lehrman Group

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and David Lane

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize potential conflicts of interest among and between experts and... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governance Compliance; Conflict of Interests; Competitive Advantage; Software; Consulting Industry

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24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

of fun and speaks to the strength of joint degree relationships! Is the joint degree schedule really challenging? Can JD/MBAs still do extra things like the law clinics, law review? Although JD/MBAs straddle the two schools, there is plenty of flexibility that allows... View Details

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

expenditures); nor had the company announced its exit to the outside world. Because divisional and operating managers—as well as customers and capital markets—have such a powerful impact on the realized... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

shirking) makes people wash more today,” Hussam says. This, Hussam hopes, is the primary takeaway of the study. While the experiment focused on a specific behavior in/among a specific area of India, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

Kakani and Columbia University professor Adam Sacarny, focuses on another explanation: differences in hospital quality. Hospital care improves, but gaps persist The researchers analyzed about 20 years of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details