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  • 20 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

But long-term success-even for a family company-can be explained in a rather simple, straightforward way. Here are some high points to consider. Grow Every Generation In order to stay alive commercially as a... View Details
  • September 2023
  • Article

The Health Costs of Dirty Energy: Evidence from the Capacity Market in Colombia

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicholas Torres
The health effects of “dirty” (fossil fuel driven) energy production are difficult to measure accurately due to the endogeneity of fuel choice. We exploit an electricity policy in Colombia that generates a price-based trigger for the use of thermal energy sources.... View Details
Keywords: Pollution; Health Disorders; Energy Industry; Colombia
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  • June 2019
  • Case

Athena Bancorp

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Sarah Abbott
Athena Bancorp was founded in 2016 by Beth Daniels, a banking professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. Daniels took advantage of what she perceived as a gap in the market caused by recent industry consolidation, a decreasing industry focus on branch... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Strategy; Service Delivery; Banking Industry
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  • 21 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Applicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis

Keywords: by Juan Alcacer

    Jeffrey J. Bussgang

    General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

    Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

    Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

      George A. Riedel

      George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details

      • October 2016 (Revised September 2017)
      • Case

      The CRISPR-Cas9 Quarrel

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
      In mid-2016, the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to... View Details
      Keywords: CRISPR; Broad Institute; University Of California Berkeley; Intellectual Property; Patents; Law; Lawsuits and Litigation; Science; Genetics; Entrepreneurship; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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      • 24 Nov 2015
      • Blog Post

      What is an HBS MyTake?

      While it’s true that students come to HBS to develop their leadership skills and learn the fundamentals of general management, what they take away tends to be so much more. When we interview students and alums for this blog, we hear time... View Details
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Using LLMs for Market Research

      By: James Brand, Ayelet Israeli and Donald Ngwe
      Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly gained popularity as labor-augmenting tools for programming, writing, and many other processes that benefit from quick text generation. In this paper we explore the uses and benefits of LLMs for researchers and practitioners... View Details
      Keywords: Large Language Model; Research; AI and Machine Learning; Analysis; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Knowledge flows and capability acquisition

      By: Willy C. Shih
      Technological advancements are a major source of improvement in competiveness, and a firm’s incentives to invest are diminished when the knowledge generated is involuntarily dispersed to competitors.  While intellectual property rights can moderate this flow to the... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Aspects Of Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Spillovers; Knowledge Acquisition; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; China

        Christina R. Wing

        Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

          John D. Macomber

          John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

          Keywords: green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology

            Ranjay Gulati

            Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

            Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
            • 2011
            • Chapter

            An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

            By: Diego A. Comin
            Why was the 1990s a lost decade for Japan? How is it possible that the Japanese economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous... View Details
            Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Japan
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            • July 2000 (Revised April 2011)
            • Case

            Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (A)

            By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
            Hewlett-Packard's Greeley Hard Copy Division is the market leader in the production of desktop flatbed scanners for personal computers. The division has been working to develop a portable scanner product for the past five years with mixed results. The new general... View Details
            Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Hardware; Technology Industry
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            • 17 Aug 2021
            • Op-Ed

            Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

            neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution... View Details
            Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
            • February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
            • Case

            The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

            By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Sarah Mehta
            It is March 2017, and TPG, a global alternative investment firm with $74 billion assets under management, has recently launched its inaugural impact-investing fund—the $2 billion Rise Fund. In an effort to “take the religion out of impact investing,” Maya Chorengel,... View Details
            Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Equity; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco
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            • December 1999 (Revised March 2002)
            • Case

            Hunter Business Group: TeamTBA

            By: Das Narayandas and Elizabeth R. Caputo
            The Hunter Business Group (HBG), a direct marketing consulting firm specializing in reorganizing the sales and marketing efforts of industrial firms, uses integrated customer contact technologies (including field sales, telephone, and mail) as a means of... View Details
            Keywords: Communication Technology; Marketing Communications; Marketing Reference Programs; Marketing Strategy; Market Participation; Sales; Value Creation; Consulting Industry
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            • Article

            Learning Models for Actionable Recourse

            By: Alexis Ross, Himabindu Lakkaraju and Osbert Bastani
            As machine learning models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as legal and financial decision-making, there has been growing interest in post-hoc methods for generating counterfactual explanations. Such explanations provide individuals adversely... View Details
            Keywords: Machine Learning Models; Recourse; Algorithm; Mathematical Methods
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            • 24 May 2014
            • News

            Analysts’ dim view of CSR brightens over time