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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Forthcoming
  • Book

How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage

By: Ranjay Gulati
What leads people to speak truth to power, share bold new ideas, or put their lives on the line? Most of us chalk it up to personality, presuming that our heroes are naturally fearless. But what if courage isn’t simply a matter of personality? What if it’s something... View Details
Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Personal Development and Career
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  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

“Standardized Color in the Food Industry: The Co-Creation of the Food Coloring Business in the United States, 1870-1940,” which describes View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

control—which is one of the reasons that they overeat in the first place. In the case of StickK, however, that optimism causes people to set overly ambitious goals, for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

flexibility is critical to survival. Companies can retain flexibility by initially focusing on low-cost applications whose requirements satisfy the lowest common denominator. This way, breakthroughs in... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

it." Still, companies around the country are managing to pick their way through such uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter,... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

A Place in the Sun

and enjoying it on your own." So he decided to rent out some of the cottages. The first guests ate at a common table, as they do today. "You make a social investment here.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2023
  • News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Redefining the Term Networking at HBS

student up for success – even introverts like me. Having the familiar comfort of my section as a foundation, I branched out and began to meet even more people. I joined clubs where I connected with classmates and their spouses who had... View Details
  • 29 May 2017
  • Blog Post

The Diverse Community at HBS

classmates with backgrounds in less common fields like teaching, retail, technology, defense, music, family businesses, and even space. View Video I really appreciated the importance of this kind of... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

systems that include common club memberships and overlapping boards. These connections help inform companies what others in their local area are doing and directly put them in touch with local needs. Prior research on Minneapolis has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

El Dorado Lost: Local Elites, Real Estate and the Education Business in China

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolving, complex and multifaceted relationship between the real estate industry and the education sector in China. The current crises in the private education and real estate sectors caused by policy shifts reflect the inter-meshing of... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Policy; Government and Politics; Economic Sectors; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge

people to stay curious because we see curiosity as the common element in the entrepreneurial experience. Curiosity helps us create an environment that is most conducive to... View Details
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

also preferred to recruit people with an engineering or technical background, while traditionally British managers were chosen on the basis of "character." The firms and entrepreneurs of View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • May 2016
  • Article

Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact

By: Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers and Leigh Plunkett Tost
This study examined whether the cultures of low- and high-power negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in... View Details
Keywords: Global Collaboration; Negotiations; Culture; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Hong Kong; Germany; Israel; United States
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  • September 2009
  • Article

The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
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  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

mantra was measurement. As secretary of defense, McNamara developed, along with key subordinates, including Robert Anthony of the HBS control faculty, long-range procurement cycles. He even tried to get the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2021
  • Article

Primary Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Simulated Patient Study

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Renuka Tipirneni, Nitya Thakore, Sneha Dave and Ishani Ganguli
Background
Primary care practices have experienced major strains during the COVID-19 pandemic, such that patients newly seeking care may face potential barriers to timely visits.
Objective
To quantify availability and wait times for new patient... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Ambulatory Care; Policy/economics; Access; Telemedicine; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 02 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

we are focusing on venture-backed firms in this study, the industries are those that are most common for venture capitalists to fund: Internet and software, biotechnology, and telecommunications.Q: Was there... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert