Publications

01 Mar 2017
News

The Big Ambition Behind Educational Innovation

change anything?’ But part of the obligation of the School’ s leadership is to nudge people — to constantly improve and change and make the experience even better.” Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business... View Details

October 2019
Supplement

Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)

By: Shawn A. Cole and Vikram S Gandhi

Web

Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine | About

Wed. 3/2, 6pm, Klarman Hall, “Russia ’ s Invasion of Ukraine: A Conversation with Jonathan Powell and Professor Deepak Malhotra” – This event, organized by the MBA Student Association, will feature analysis of the invasion and invite... View Details

June 2008 (Revised February 2011)
Case

Year Up: A Social Entrepreneur Builds High Performance

By: Allen S Grossman and Naomi Greckol-Herlich

Year Up, a nonprofit job-skills training program for low-income, urban youth has run four successful programs in four cities for the past seven years. Now, after an ambitious capital campaign, the organization is poised to grow into a national program in an attempt to... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Quality; Nonprofit Organizations; United States

2006
Article

Empowerment through Choice? A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Choice in Organizations

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and S Iyengar

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Theory; Organizations

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July 2020
Teaching Plan

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal

January 2011 (Revised January 2012)
Teaching Note

The Case of the Unidentified Healthcare Companies2010 (TN)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ethan S Bernstein

Teaching Note for 611043. View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

November 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

Omron: Sensing Society

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ethan S Bernstein

"Leading profitable growth is only part of the goal. We cannot live without breathing, but we do not live in order to take a breath,” said Omron's President and CEO, Hisao Sakuta, in 2008. Omron, a $7B global supplier of sensors, control system components, advanced... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Competitive Advantage; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Globalized Firms and Management; Innovation and Invention; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Electronics Industry

December 2019
Supplement

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Shawn A. Cole

November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Background Note

The Role of ESG in Investment Strategy

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Christopher Diak and Radhika Kak

February 1999 (Revised March 2004)
Case

JAFCO America Ventures, Inc.: Building A Venture Capital Firm

By: Walter Kuemmerle, Kiichiro Kobayashi and Chad S Ellis

JAFCO, a large Japanese venture capital firm, is making a second attempt to enter the U.S. venture capital market. The U.S. subsidiary, JAFCO America Ventures, is in the midst of a challenging turnaround. Going forward, the U.S. subsidiary's leadership needs to make a... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Market Entry and Exit; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States

March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
Supplement

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Amram Migdal

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

March 1991
Article

Behind the Learning Curve: The Learning Process

By: P S Adler and K. B. Clark

Keywords: Learning

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October 1998
Case

Star TV in India--1998

By: Tarun Khanna, Geetu S Karnani and Tanya Z Haider

Keywords: Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; India