public education - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England, corrected View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

number of for-profits that are focusing on problems in areas such as education and welfare-to-work? According to Bloomberg Senior Lecturer in Philanthropy Allen Grossman, the answers to these kinds of questions must take into... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government agencies, View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

political leaders, educational institutions, and local alumni. In Europe, a group of executives and professionals, all HBS alumni, form the European Leadership Council (ELC), which provides advice on the work of the ERC. Cynthia... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

expropriation processes, or financial crisis. Silverthorne: Who should be reading these interviews? What will they learn? Khanna: Academics for sure, for their research. Several have started mining the extensive transcripts as data, for example. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

during the late l950s. Through most of that decade, the Commission had adopted a laissez-faire stance toward cable, on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the industry, and that, in any case, extending the reach of broadcast signals served the View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

each one wants to be known. Noma wasn't founded with the idea of bringing Danish food to the world; they wanted to bring Danish food to Denmark. At the same time, Noma wants to become part of the public discourse—how eating locally has... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

productivity, says Professor Gail J. McGovern. In this Q&A, she discusses what executives can do to repair the split and introduces a new diagnostic tool for measuring marketing performance used in the HBS Executive Education program.... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

discussing women's leadership. "Initially, we thought our market was individuals," she said. Eventually, with the help of business sponsors, they developed a new business model targeted at educational institutions and large... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

Lincoln Center is mind-boggling in its scope and prestige. Eleven resident organizations in arts and education share the campus: the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 29

principals. Educators whose students performed well on standardized tests received bonuses and public recognition; educators whose students fell short received reprimands,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), heretofore a little-used option.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

possibility of platforms investing in "educating" unsophisticated users. In a competitive environment, such education is a public good among platforms and therefore the equilibrium level is lower... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

close proximity to one another, frequenting the same restaurants, and speaking a language of their own? They represent a classic "cluster" from the world of competitive strategy. But are they denied exposure to consumers who are different from them in age,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public domain open source Web server.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

However, most of these investors also trade in public securities. This leads to a controversial question: do institutional investors use private information received in the loan market to trade in public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

structuring social sector management programs in order to educate cross-sector leaders capable of addressing critical societal problems. Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research Authors:Paul S. Goodman, Rangaraj Ramanujam,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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