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  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

their strengths to produce in-depth, state-of-the-art research. Q: What are some of your plans and goals for the office in the next two to four years? How do you see business in Japan developing in the years... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

and Rohini Somanathan Publication:In Handbook of Development Economics. Vol. 4, edited by T. Paul Schultz and John Strauss. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2008 Abstract This chapter focuses on the relationship between public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

performance results when compared to other algorithms developed for similar settings. Moreover, we show how our algorithms can be extended for use in general multi-armed bandit problems with resource constraints, with applications in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

Editor's note: Harvard Business School in mid-October played host to the 2010 Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan. Under direction of conference organizer Robert G. Eccles, participants recently published an electronic book around themes View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

asked how he could pay back the favor. Cash put his arm around his colleague's shoulder and said, "You don't owe me anything, Brian. This is the way we do things here. Just pay it forward." “Shareholder value or profits are measures, not View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • Research Event

Venture Capital

Date: January 9-10, 2008 Faculty Chairs: Josh Lerner, William Sahlman Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Venture Capital What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The VC Conference is one in a series of 14 alumni and practitioner... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

Bill George, now a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. "Innovators need to be able to try things out, fail, correct them, and then bring them back into the organization." You really need to develop two... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • April 2024
  • Case

Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work

By: Hubert Joly, Nitin Nohria and Emilie Billaud
When he became CEO, facing limited growth prospects, a low valuation, and therefore a stagnating share price, Menegaux and his team launched a set of initiatives to reposition Michelin. These included (1) articulating a clear purpose (“We care about giving people a... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Identity; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Value Creation; Mission and Purpose; Valuation; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; France
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  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

inclusion goals and seek to make an impact beyond the balance sheet. He encourages investors to ask: “How do we make startups more accessible, both geographically and among different groups? How do we think about creating a playing field... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • 09 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

its human capital," says Rivkin. "So if we're really falling down in that arena, we have an economic problem so important that business leaders can't sit on the sidelines." On the positive side, this could be a promising moment for American education.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

and Mario Morino, cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), based in Washington, D.C. Panelists agreed that the goal for philanthropy should be to help an organization scale to the point that it can sustain itself.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

that they're going to be replaced. Typically, early in the life of a company—when it is developing its first product or service—the founder who conceived of the idea and began developing it is the perfect... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

your goal is a great marketing plan or a brilliant idea for a software system, it doesn't matter if it took 2 hours or 20 hours. The client is paying for the quality of the solution. Q: What do you think about the issue of flexible work... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

judgement, and (4) internal competition that turns friends into enemies. A fifth item on their list is the substitution of several activities—talk, making presentations, preparing documents, developing mission statements, and planning—for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

be made to make nuclear power one of the world’s low-cost alternatives for meeting the urgent demand for power while winning the race with fossil fuels” No government official draws up the roadmap for development of these other civil... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Academy of Management Review, HBS professor Christopher Marquis and coauthors Gerald Davis and Mary Ann Glynn develop a framework for understanding an important aspect of this issue: how social and governmental forces in local communities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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