Broad Institute - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

tragedy and a point of departure for thinking more carefully about the institutions humans have created to organize our economic lives, according to Salter. In a wide-ranging talk with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, weeks... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

popularity of carryout orders, which poses a threat to the service experiences of customers and the sustainability of the operation. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-020 The CRISPR-Cas9 Quarrel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

if they connect under-represented and under-resourced people only with others just like them. While networks can provide emotional support, they don’t necessarily help women or people of color break into major funding circles. Kanter argues that it’s important for... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

many ways from the type of finance researched and taught at business schools. I explored how financial services were practiced in a place like South Central, focusing in particular on the opportunities to leverage social organizations to deliver a View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

slide). Three examples of how academic language was translated into language that appeals to business practitioners. For the past 20 years Greenstein has written a 1,500-word column for IEEE Micro, a bimonthly magazine published by the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

pervasive uncertainty created by COVID-19 in other ways, for example nurturing the relationship with other firms in their networks or establishing new connections that could lead to new learnings. Other firms, and especially businesses located in weak View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research,... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

bank, a deposit-taking institution that most often kept the loan on its books, retaining the credit risk. But over time the banks would sell more and more loans to the secondary market, particularly since the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

our research, conducted in a broad range of emerging economies including those of Chile, India, and South Korea, demonstrates that even with the best intentions, it takes longer than a decade to build the kind of View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

away from petty, small disputes and think about embracing the broad idea of Europe writ large. That would help in the search for a sustainable solution to this agonizing, destabilizing, and never-ending Greek crisis. While notable View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

"build cathedrals." This entails educating leaders who make a difference not just in the world, but for the world. As the institution looks ahead to the next century, there are key areas where new work is planned: The School... View Details

Keywords: Education

11 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

they go beyond earlier research to look at the broad context of call center service delivery. "Although much literature has recently been written about various ways to steer customer interactions to sale opportunities," write... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

Miller and colleague V.G. Narayanan have made this case to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and wrote "Accounting Standards and the Globalisation of Indian Businesses," which appeared in the July 2005 issue of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks. The editorial team has identified six broad areas that hold promise. The list is neither exclusive nor prescriptive... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

open up within them, giving companies a powerful mechanism for arbitrage across national financial markets. Managing these internal markets to build an advantage requires that CFOs must balance new financial opportunities with the managerial and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

skills, (2) broad perspective, (3) teaming skills, (4) expanded social network, and (5) boundary-spanning skills. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our ideas for conducting future team research. Board of Directors'... View Details