Publications

April 2008
Article

The Survey of Industrial R&D—Patent Database Link Project

By: William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu

This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Survey of Industrial R&D conducted by the Census Bureau and National Science Foundation. The dataset constitutes a platform that offers an unprecedented view of... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Patents; Surveys; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

01 Dec 2008
News

Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at HBS on “Leadership: Advancing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

February 2011 (Revised December 2014)
Case

RentJuice

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Liz Kind

RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a subscription software service—sold via phone and live online webinars—that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction... View Details

Keywords: Renting or Rental; Product Launch; Applications and Software; Property; Business Startups; Salesforce Management; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

“helps businesses provide this increasingly important information in a more rationalized way.” Massie's energy and output is even more remarkable given the fact that some twenty years ago, he acquired HIV in the course of his many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

26 Nov 2019
News

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

largely due to two issues: information opacity—the difficulty in gathering accurate information and determining if a small business was actually making money, and heterogeneity—the reality that not all small... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

November 2023
Article

Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space

By: René Raab, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener and Bjoern Eskofier

The European Commission's draft for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to empower citizens to access their personal health data and share it with physicians and other health-care providers. It further defines procedures for the secondary use of electronic... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Industry

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

Ellison: Teaching is "in my DNA." Courtesy Ed Ellison After graduating from HBS and spending several years at Salomon Brothers and CS First Boston, Ed Ellison (MBA ’91) left Wall Street to go into education because “teaching and coaching are in my DNA,” he told the... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

January 2001 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Ninth House: e-Learning Software

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Frances X. Frei and Corey B. Hajim

Jeff Snipes, CEO of the Ninth House Network, a San Francisco-based E-Learning company, considers a strategy shift to address a recent slump in sales and to attract more customers. The revised strategy would require creating shorter, more directed content that could be... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Learning; Sales; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

that it all happens during a ‘recruiting cycle’ that takes place early in the fall for ECs. But those cycles don’t necessarily line up with the times when private equity firms decide they need to hire. So, putting yourself out there, whether it’s through View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

1991
Book

Business Policy: Text and Cases

By: J. L. Bower, Christopher A. Bartlett, C. Roland Christensen, Andrall E. Pearson and Kenneth R. Andrews

Keywords: Policy; Cases

February 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Caijing Magazine (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna and G.A. Donovan

In late 2009, Wang Boming, publisher of Caijing Magazine, widely regarded as China's most independent newsmagazine, gathered his core team for an urgent meeting. His pioneering editor Hu Shuli, described for her fiercely independent journalism as "the most dangerous... View Details

Keywords: Journals and Magazines; Publishing Industry; China

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March – April 2011
Article

Integrated Reporting: A Source of Competitive Advantage

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim

Keywords: Reports; Integration

2010
Book

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng and Daniela Saltzman

Keywords: Integration; Reports

January 2011
Article

Developing Superior Negotiation Case Studies

By: James K. Sebenius

While a great deal of excellent advice exists for producing case studies on managerially relevant topics in general, negotiation cases have distinctive aspects that merit explicit treatment. This article offers three types of tailored advice for producing cases on... View Details

Keywords: Education; Cases; Negotiation

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September 1990
Case

Corporate News in the Los Angeles Times

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Media; Newspapers; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry