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  • March 16, 2021
  • Article

From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles

By: Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Bryant Walker Smith, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony and Emilio Frazzoli
For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a significant undertaking: endowing complex autonomous systems with ethically acceptable behavior. We... View Details
Keywords: Automated Driving; Public Health; Artificial Intelligence; Transportation; Health; Ethics; Policy; AI and Machine Learning
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  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 8: Linking Performance to Markets

By: Robert Simons
This module reading shows how to link profit plans and other performance measurement systems to both internal and external markets. Starting with the transfer of goods and services within a firm, the module discusses the different methods of designing transfer pricing... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Transfer Pricing; Activity Based Costing; Return On Investment; Residual Income; EVA; Strategy; Cost Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Markets; Investment Return
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  • March–April 2017
  • Article

Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior

By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
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  • 2014
  • Chapter

Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research

By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani
This chapter draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical approaches and theories of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Business History; Entrepreneurship; History; Organizations
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    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
    • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.

    By: David L. Ager
    In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details
    Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada
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    • 2017
    • Article

    The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation

    By: Paul Green, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons and Francesca Gino
    We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill... View Details
    Keywords: Needs; Motivation; Work Engagement; Disengagement; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Human Needs
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    • October 2009
    • Article

    Managing Risk in the New World

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.
    Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
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    • Person Page

    Ph.D. Students

    By: Sunil Gupta

    Thesis Chair

    • Carl Mela, Columbia University, 1993; T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor, Duke University.
    • Sangman Han, Columbia University, 1993; Professor, SungKyunKwan University,... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    cross-disciplinary focus to key business and societal challenges. The structure of the Institute encompasses research programs and labs that drive foundational and applied research on topics critical to business; engagement platforms that... View Details
    • Web

    Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets

    brand, talks about how maintaining high quality at a fixed, open price has been the foundation of the company's success. Duration: 02:09 Merrill J. Fernando Merrill J. Fernando Building Brands Merrill Fernando, founder of Sri Lanka's... View Details
    • Web

    Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

    of Business Administration Lauren H. Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration Scott Duke Kominers Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Jim Matheson Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Arthur I Segel Baker View Details
    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Solving for Z

    With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
    • June 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game

    By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 420-031. NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018-19 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Practice; Retirement; Work-Life Balance; Success; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Growth and Development; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance; Sports Industry; United States
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
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    • April 2018
    • Case

    Miami's Tech Future (Abridged): Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Leadership Challenges

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    By the middle of the 1990s, Miami’s reputation was changing. An influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants and major investments in the airport and seaport had changed the image of a sleepy southern city to the de facto business center of Latin America, a center for... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Leadership; Business and Community Relations; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Miami; Florida
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    • Teaching Interest

    Organizational Behavior

    Each of us maintains a set of beliefs and general assumptions about humans and their behavior, and those assumptions form the foundation for our beliefs about what motivates individuals; about how individuals make decisions; and about the ways in which the... View Details

    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Leadership; Motivation And Incentives; Decision-making; Culture
    • 01 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

    said their mother had never gotten over the murder, and White’s sister admitted that 30 years ago, she “would have been across that table,” but told him she did forgive him. With the help of the family, Miller is developing a scholarship View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
    • Web

    Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    Influencing practice and advancing the field for over 25 years. Through the work of the faculty, the Social Enterprise Initiative has built a foundation of knowledge that has both responded to and influenced the changing field of... View Details
    • Web

    Community Values | About

    that this is a collective endeavor and that we can ’ t really accomplish our mission without relying on each other. Robin J. Ely ; Baker Foundation Professor Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Curriculum As... View Details