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  • 2017
  • Other Article

Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom
The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness
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  • September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
  • Case

Fast Ion Battery

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a phone call from Don Lerner at Bluelock Ventures telling him that Bluelock would not participate in the $5M bridge financing for Fast Ion Battery. Lerner's... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Real Options; Term Sheets; Clean Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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    The Moral Leader: Challenges, Insights and Tools

    Successful leaders – at any level and in any arena – are inevitably presented with moral and ethical choices. This unique and innovative textbook is designed to encourage students and managers to confront those fundamental moral challenges, to develop skills in... View Details

    • 11 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

    Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart
    • 29 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

    in the context of health programs and policies in developing nations. But her findings yield lessons that apply to almost everyone. For instance, in a recent study in Lusaka, Zambia, Ashraf and her colleagues found that providing women... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

    Illustrations by Don Foley To expand faculty research on how technological change is affecting business and society and to help reinvent this change, HBS launched in July the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). It focuses on the opportunities and... View Details
    • 2020
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Leading the Charge: A Podcase about Product Management at Opower

    By: Jeffrey Rayport and John J. Lafkas
    The Opower podcase materials contain audio from professor Jeffrey Rayport's interview with Ben Foster, the former vice president of product management at Opower, and more recently the co-founder of Prodify. In the podcase, Ben discusses how product management works in... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Conflict Management; Software
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    • March 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit

    By: Eva Ascarza, Peter S. Fader, Bruce Hardie and Michael Ross
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-046. This case presents a scenario where Madrigal, a U.S. retailer with a rich 20-year history and a solid loyalty program, faces a turning point with the arrival of a new CEO. This leadership change reveals a critical gap in... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 15 Mar 2017
    • Blog Post

    An Average Day at HBS

    search, but this takes up a lot of time on weekdays. Early on this takes the form of Career and Professional Development events, company presentations, and networking phone calls/meetings with alumni and/or current students. As you... View Details
    • August 2020
    • Article

    Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan

    By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
    Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
    Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman
    In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy
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    For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Social Enterprise Executive Education programs, designed for nonprofit and social enterprise leaders. Develop the strategic knowledge, practical tools, and leadership skills you need to lead a thriving, high-performance organization.... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    The War Within

    When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
    Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
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    Shad Hall | About

    development initiatives, including the John Shad Professorship of Business Ethics, new required and elective MBA courses, a video archive of exemplary business practices, and an awards program honoring managers, academics, entrepreneurs,... View Details
    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    Sujin has developed and led courses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior as an invited lecturer in the International Spark Program (Republic of Georgia) and Dubrovnik International University (Croatia). She has also served as a Teaching Fellow for the Social... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Teams; Decision Making; Negotiation
    • Research Summary

    Ethics & Politics of Emerging Technologies

    In this stream of research, my collaborators and I investigate the ethical, political, and social implications of computational technologies. 

    In this work, I often collaborate with academic colleagues in computer science by helping to... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Computational Social Science
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    Deep Indicators of Business Model Success

    By: James L. Heskett
    The purpose of this study is to develop ways of helping practitioners identify and measure deep indicators of success in the business models being pursued by their organizations. The hypothesis is that success is dependent on these deep indicators. The indicators are... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Family Business Management

    John Davis is developing cases and other course materials on family business management for the Executive Education program Families in Business: From Generation to Generation, Families in Business/China, the Owner/President Management... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups

    By: Ofir Gefen, Daniel Rabetti, Yannan Sun and Che Zhang
    This study examines startups' management of source code repositories, distinguishing authentic developers ("code-producers''), from those inflating activity to mislead investors ("code-washers''). Using global blockchain startup and GitHub data, we find that... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Open Source Distribution; Business Startups
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Pitch Perfect: Investing in Transportable Presentation Skills to Support Poly-vocal Personae

    By: James Riley and Susan S. Silbey
    For organizations requiring independent and creative thinking skills for complex problem-solving, especially within a multi-disciplinary pool of collaborators, conventional socialization practices flattening individuality for the sake of uniformity is not necessarily... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Identity; Competency and Skills; Groups and Teams
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