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  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Principles and Content for Downstream Emissions Disclosures

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
In a previous paper, we proposed the E-liability carbon accounting algorithm for companies to measure and subsequently reduce their own and their suppliers’ emissions. Some investors and stakeholders, however, want companies to also be accountable for downstream... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Disclosure; Carbon Footprint; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • October 1992
  • Supplement

American Connector Co. (B)

By: Gary P. Pisano
Presents a plant manager's proposal to improve operations at American Connector Co. The plan attempts to imitate operations at DJC Corp., a successful Japanese competitor. Requires students to consider how changes in manufacturing impact productivity, flexibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Change; Production; Performance Productivity; Strategy; Japan; Sunnyvale
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  • November 2019
  • Article

Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details
Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    All Business is Local

    Today's business leaders are so obsessed with all things global and virtual that they risk neglecting the critical impact of physical place. It's a paradox of the Internet age: now that it's possible for businesses to be everywhere at once, they need to focus on... View Details

    • Program

    Behavioral Economics—Virtual

    think—and how altering the decision-making context can make an impact on their choices. In this virtual program, you will learn how to design and rigorously test a "choice architecture" that can help your managers make better decisions,... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

    • June 2024
    • Article

    The Diversity Heuristic: How Team Demographic Composition Influences Judgments of Team Creativity

    By: Devon Proudfoot, Zachariah Berry, Edward H. Chang and Min B. Kay
    Despite mixed evidence for the relationship between demographic diversity and creativity, we propose that observers hold a lay belief that demographic diversity increases creativity and apply this lay belief in judgments about teams and their creative work. Across... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Race; Gender; Groups and Teams; Perception; Creativity
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    • 06 Mar 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

    boost similar to the kick provided in virtual stores by grouping similar products together, Karmarkar says. But other research has shown that the relative position of products on a store shelf can have a big... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising
    • August 2006
    • Background Note

    Analyzing Work Groups

    By: Linda A. Hill and Michel Anteby
    Work groups are the building blocks of organizations. They are found in all areas of an organization, from research and development to customer service, and at all levels, from the executive suite to the factory floor. Some are incredibly successful, while others are... View Details
    Keywords: Framework; Leadership Style; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Behavior
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    • 16 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

    increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

    Editor's note: In their new book, The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development, HBS professor Josh Lerner and London School of Economics professor Mark Schankerman look at the impact of open source software on economic... View Details
    Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
    • January 2020
    • Case

    Khan Academy 2018 (Abridged)

    By: William A. Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded in 2008, Khan Academy was a global educational nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere in the world. By 2018, the organization had expanded into numerous content areas, product areas, and geographic markets.... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneur; Sustainability; Scaling; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Teaching; Education Industry
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    • 04 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Christian Fons-Rosen, Assistant Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics

    • Career Coach

    Pamela Harder

    architect behind the Amazon HQ2 $1.1B tech talent investment program. Prior to that, Pam ran Strategy & Business Operations at Clever, a K12 edtech startup in San Francisco. Under her leadership, she helped the company explore new market / View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing; Impact Investing
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    Technology Chris leads MPM Capital’s public market investing as portfolio manager for BioImpact Equities (formerly known as Burrage Capital) and the Oncology Impact Funds. Previously, Chris was a health care analyst at Fidelity... View Details
    • 15 Apr 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

    should be spending more money on search ads.” The most measurable form of online advertising are search ads—ads linked with results from search queries—which can translate directly into clicks and purchases by placing a product before... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
    • September 2017 (Revised February 2018)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson: Global Health Strategy

    By: Mark R. Kramer and Sarah Mehta
    Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) was a medical technology firm headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, with 43,000 employees and 2016 revenues of $12.5 billion. For several years, the company had pursued developing products that created shared value, defined as... View Details
    Keywords: Shared Value; Creating Shared Value; Odon Device; Medical Technology; Value Creation; Values and Beliefs; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Emerging Markets; Social Issues; Competitive Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Africa; Asia; Middle East
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Competition in Modular Clusters

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
    The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Profit; Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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