Center Of Excellence - Publications - Faculty & Research

2016
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Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector

Book Abstract: The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Transformation; Australia; New Zealand; China; United States; Europe; Southeast Asia

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12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

How do you assess the viability of a heat pump? Through an Independent Project with Professor George Serafeim, Meghavi Talati (MBA 2023) set out to develop a tool to help the average consumer navigate this decision. The Rise View Details

2021
Working Paper

The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition

By: Marco Iansiti

Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to... View Details

Keywords: Online Platforms; Data Network Effects; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Competition; Digital Platforms

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2012
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Leading in Crises: Observations on the Political and Decision-Making Dimensions of Response

By: Herman B. Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

Emergency response organizations, as we have argued in earlier writing, must deal with both "routine emergencies" (dangerous events, perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Government and Politics

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01 Jun 2008
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The Making of a School

BRICK BY BRICK: Completion of the campus dormitories took place in sixteen months. BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS On a stroll through campus, it’s almost impossible to envision HBS without the iconic columns and bell tower View Details

Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

The Changing Nature of Research

experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks View Details

12 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Negotiation Processes As Sources of (And Solutions To) Interorganizational Conflict

Keywords: by Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher & Kathleen L. McGinn

Article

Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool

By: David Levine, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas and David Bates

Mobile health applications (“apps”) have rapidly proliferated, yet their ability to improve outcomes for patients remains unclear. A validated tool that addresses apps’ potentially important dimensions has not been available to patients and clinicians. The objective of... View Details

Keywords: Health; Mobile Technology; Design; Analysis

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20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

Click HereIndependent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival, View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

IT vendors including Oracle, IBM, and Sun that traditionally have built offerings based on proprietary technologies are now investing billions of dollars into open source software—arrangements that are transforming in some ways the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

01 Oct 2002
News

Distinct Yet of a Piece

Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives.... View Details

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Sep 2003
News

The Power of National Identity

Assistant Professor Rawi E. Abdelal began his talk on “Politics of Identity in the Post-Soviet World” by showing a photograph of a monument located near Vilnius in Lithuania. The pyramidal object marks the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government

15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization

associated with populism; Abdelal is a political scientist who has studied Russia for the last 25 years and directs Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Here, they sat down over Zoom to talk with the Bulletin about the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

professional life. His odyssey epitomizes the fulfillment of the American dream. A penniless immigrant from an environment entirely unlike that in the United States comes here and winds up at the center... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

TeachingInterests

Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

By: Christopher T. Stanton

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts. HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

was for a time the center of the universe for drug smugglers and celebrities in Miami. Farzad: I left to college in 1994. I grew up in Miami. I was born in Iran, we came to Miami just on the eve View Details

March 2018
Case

Lufax: FinTech and the Transformation of Wealth Management in China

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Anthony K. Woo

This case examines the rise and competitive positioning of Lufax, an online marketplace headquartered in Shanghai, China, and a pioneer in the origination and trading of financial assets. The company had grown at a remarkable rate, and was awarded “Trading Platform of... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy; Situation or Environment; Product Positioning; Financial Services Industry; China

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