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  • 20 Apr 2020
  • News

Digital Transformation: Business Leaders Still Struggling to Cope

  • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora
The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Africa; Emerging Markets; Energy; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda
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  • March–April 2015
  • Article

Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform

By: Lan Nguyen Chaplin and Michael I. Norton
Theory of Mind (ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3–12 year olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire to engage in performative behaviors associated... View Details
Keywords: Theory Of Mind; Self-Esteem; Behavior; Attitudes; Performance; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 02 Oct 2018
  • News

How Companies Can Tap Into Talent Clusters

    Kim B. Clark

    Kim B. Clark joined the Harvard faculty in 1978 and served as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005.  He received the B.A. (1974), M.A. (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard University.

    Professor Clark's research has... View Details

    • Article

    How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization

    By: Stefan Thomke
    Some of the biggest threats to organizational performance can and do come from within. In an age when companies are told to be agile, to learn from experiments, and to be entrepreneurial, we are still vulnerable to actions — deliberate or unintentional — that stem from... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices; Effective Managers; Self-awareness; CIA,; Organizational Behavior; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Behavior; Performance
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    • March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
    • Case

    John F. Kennedy: Changing the World

    By: Robert Simons and Max Saffer
    This case traces the rise of John F. Kennedy from a wealthy family in Boston to president of the United States. The case describes how Kennedy, as a young man, lived a privileged life in the shadow of his older brother, Joe. When Joe was killed in World War II, Jack... View Details
    Keywords: Politics; Business And Government; Legacy; Leadership Development; Personal Characteristics; Business and Government Relations; Success; Power and Influence; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; United States
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    • March 2021 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Helen Keller: Changing the World

    By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
    This case describes the rise of Helen Keller who at 19 months became deaf and blind. Refusing to be sidelined from life, Keller showed great determination in learning how to communicate with others, employing tutors and travelling to Boston to enroll in the Perkins... View Details
    Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Success; Diversity; Leading Change; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence
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    • 30 Mar 2020
    • News

    How Building Wellness Certifications are Adapting to COVID-19

    • October 2014 (Revised June 2021)
    • Teaching Note

    Making Room for the Baby Boom: Senior Living

    By: Charles F. Wu and Ben Eppler
    Tom Alperin's firm National Development is an experienced multifamily and commercial developer in the Northeast. It has a strong track record for working on challenging projects, delivering high quality products and generating strong returns for his investors. The firm... View Details
    Keywords: Housing; Age; Investment Return; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Massachusetts
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    • March 2025 (Revised May 2025)
    • Case

    Primetime Partners: Investing in Healthspan, Wealthspan, and Workspan

    By: Rembrand Koning, Nicole Tempest Keller and Susan Wilner Golden
    In the fall of 2024, Abby Miller Levy (HBS ’01), co-founder and managing partner of Primetime Partners, was preparing to raise a second fund. Founded in 2020 with veteran investor Alan Patricof, Primetime was a horizontal fund focused on early-stage companies serving... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Age; Social Issues; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • September 2020 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience

    By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in... View Details
    Keywords: Toys; Go-to-market Strategy; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Decision Making; Marketing; Strategy; Los Angeles
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    • October 2020
    • Article

    What Goes Down When Advice Goes Up: Younger Advisers Underestimate Their Impact

    By: Ting Zhang and Michael S. North
    Common wisdom suggests that older is wiser. Consequently, people rarely give advice to older individuals—even when they are relatively more expert—leading to missed learning opportunities. Across six studies (N=3,445), we explore the psychology of advisers when they... View Details
    Keywords: Advice; Expertise; Knowledge Sharing; Experience and Expertise; Age; Perception
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    • October 2024 (Revised July 2025)
    • Case

    Lanco Medical Group: Fostering Happiness for Growth

    By: Susanna Gallani, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Katherine Sonnefeldt
    This case describes how Lanco Medical Group, a fast-growing pharmaceutical distributor serving Latin America, approached the design of their employee benefits and incentives program. After learning about gaps between what leadership believed motivated employees and... View Details
    Keywords: Fairness; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth Management; Motivation and Incentives; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Latin America
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    • July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
    • Case

    Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    By 2005, Japan's debt had risen to 163% of GDP. For more than a decade, the government had run huge deficits, trying unsuccessfully to stimulate economic growth. Interest rates, meanwhile, had been zero for years. But with slow growth and banks in crisis, nothing had... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Demographics; Financial Condition; Inflation and Deflation; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Welfare; Health Care and Treatment; Japan
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    • 05 Jun 2019
    • News

    Why cities and national governments clash over migration

    • 16 May 2015
    • News

    Stranded: How America's Failing Public Transportation Increases Inequality

    • 15 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

    of where markets have failed, the idea of venture philanthropy clicking is a little hard for me to buy into. Venture philanthropy has to come of age and reorient itself by defining what measures of social return it is looking for. In some... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson
    • March 2011
    • Article

    Restaurant Organizational Forms and Community in the U.S. in 2005

    By: Glenn R. Carroll and Magnus Thor Torfason
    Recent sociological theory and research highlights food, drink, and restaurants as culturally meaningful and related to social identity. An implication of this view holds that the prevalence of corporate chain restaurants affects the sociological character of... View Details
    Keywords: Demographics; Age; Supply Chain Management; Culture; Balance and Stability; Income Characteristics; Research; Civil Society or Community; Identity; Theory; Society; Service Industry; United States
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    • April 1999
    • Case

    French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

    By: David A. Moss
    Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France
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