Publications

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

fixed-income securities, mostly earning near-zero real yields. How can this capital find bankable projects that allow for private sector development and investment—at huge scale—to help solve these challenges while at the same time... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

14 Nov 2006
Other Presentation

Competitiveness and Economic Development: Where Does Texas Stand?

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in articular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for Companies and Governments" in On Competition (Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

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December 2012 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Residencial Los Andes

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Lisa Strope

Peninsula Investment Group is deciding whether or not to recapitalize an equity investment in a Residencial Los Andes, a residential project in Santiago, Chile, or take a substantial loss. The project did not meet its sales goals and the bank pressured the investors to... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Emerging Market; Latin America; Investment Management; Management; Negotiation; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Real Estate Industry; Latin America

Research Summary

Multimarket contact, organizational structure, and collusion

This ongoing project with Jordan Siegel investigates multimarket contact among business groups in Brazil, and whether cross-ownership among business groups enhance firms' ability to commit to collusive strategies. View Details

2022
Presentation

Kathleen McCartney presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

21 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Business Reopening Decisions and Demand Forecasts During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Keywords: by Dylan Balla-Elliott, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton

13 Dec 2019
News

How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

October 2003 (Revised November 2003)
Case

Foremostco, Inc. (A)

Describes the rocky transition from an outdated, nonintegrated information system to a new customized system built by programmers in a small, IT-dependent foliage company that distributes plant material. The old system has increasingly become a "burning platform," but... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Information Technology; Crisis Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

unregistered businesses that would quickly turn public opinion against the project. "Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India," says Iyer. "That's why this project... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

October 1996
Article

Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby and M. Herron

We describe the development and validation of a new instrument, KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, designed to assess perceived stimulants and obstacles to creativity in organizational work environments. The KEYS scales have acceptable factor structures,... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Performance; Research; Theory

Find at Harvard

Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

Olivia Staffon, MBA 2019, shares a day in the life during her summer internship at the National Park Service, Dinosaur Park. Her project is focused on evaluating opportunities for sharing operational resources such as equipment, labor, or... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

16 Apr 2024
Video

Career Journeys | Jade Haynes

Video

Ashraf Dahod - Making A Difference

Research Summary

Targeting Corporate Interests: The US banking industry's experience with community groups and regulators

In this project with Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao we use evidence from comminity groups' protests of bank mergers and negotiations with banking institutions to study how and why these firms are targeted for their non-market behavior.

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January 2003 (Revised March 2005)
Case

Planning in Professional Service Firms

By: Ashish Nanda

In this case, four consultants discuss business planning issues that they are each having within their respective consulting firms. The case addresses how professional compensation, project staffing, hours worked, overhead costs, and billing rates impact profitability. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Profit; Consulting Industry

Video

Melek El Nimer

Melek El Nimer, founder of the Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon, outlines the strategies her organization has employed to allow for more of their female students to pursue higher education abroad. View Details

November 1999 (Revised November 2000)
Case

Cortlandt Town Center

By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel

CBL & Associates is trying to decide whether to go ahead with the development of a 790,000 square-foot power center with retailers such as Home Depot and Barnes & Noble. The costs are such that the developer needs to renegotiate its land acquisition price. Then the... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Negotiation; Projects; Strategy; Construction Industry; Retail Industry