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There is growing interest in impact investing, the idea of deploying capital to obtain both financial and social or environmental returns. Examination of every equity investment made by the International Finance Corporation, one of the largest and... View Details

September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
Case

Mod IV Product Development Team

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis

Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy

01 Jun 2005
News

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management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue HBS professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and View Details

Keywords: nonprofit; social impact; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

June 2010 (Revised March 2014)
Teaching Note

Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (A) and (B)

By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah, Rachel Gordon and Elena Moroz

Teaching Note for 910001. View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Research and Development; Health Care and Treatment; Kenya

February 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Lance Johnstone: Developing 3000 North Broad

The case focuses on Lance Johnstone, a former NFL player, who has dabbled in real estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia,... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Development Economics; Construction; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Philadelphia

March 2017
Case

PharmAccess and the M-TIBA Platform: Leveraging Digital Technology in the Developing World

By: Kevin Schulman, Sashidaran Moodley and Anant Vasudevan

PharmAccess is an Amsterdam-based NGO working to support the development of the private health care market in Africa. This work is critical as over 50% of care is delivered through the private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Africa; Kenya

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2012
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long before the current recession took hold. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin discuss causes and possible solutions. Better by the Bundle? Video-game companies do it, fast-food restaurants, too. Why... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Dec 2011
News

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employees they hire and the way they socialize those employees. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6795.html. Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care Even as “Obamacare” becomes an issue in the 2012 presidential election, policymakers... View Details

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments? By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The literature on the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2000
Exercise

Tyrell Web Developers Inc. (B)

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Andrew P. McAfee

An integrated exercise culminating in a team project to design and develop a Web site for a fictitious company. Puts students in the position of designing a Web site for a demanding client (a local pizza company). Students are given a (purposefully) brief description... View Details

Keywords: Web Sites; Software; Product Development; Design; Internet

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Article

Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Business Ventures; Growth and Development

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30 May 1996
Conference Presentation

Science Based Product Development

By: M. Iansiti and J. West

Keywords: Product Development; Science

September 2001
Background Note

Accounting for Computer Software Development Costs

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Tatiana Sandino

Summarizes the debate on accounting for computer software development costs. Provides a historical description of the development of standards on accounting of computer software development costs, both in the United States and internationally. Describes how, after much... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Information Technology Industry; Accounting Industry; United States