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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 24 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?
may also try to overcorrect in areas where they failed the first time, such as overanalyzing or delaying decisions, being too conservative on cash flow, or focusing too much on scalability too early in the product-development process. If... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
valuable lessons for MBAs. Pisano focuses on organizational issues, given the complex and multi-layered process required. He wants students to think beyond the feel-good nature of the program and dig into how to build a successful, View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
decided to promote the idea of wine tastings from home. Customers can order a tasting package from the company website, including the wine, tasting notes and a link to a video that would essentially serve as a virtual tasting. As Castelanelli explained to Forbes.com,... View Details
- Research Summary
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
differed from how Airbnb expanded. For Airbnb to send photographers to each new member’s residence was not easily scalable and financially unsustainable. More important, it was not necessary to continue subsidizing professional photo... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
outcomes, but using the scalability and capital access of the for-profit form of activity), the corporate social responsibility activities of a traditional for-profit business, and even governmental organizations. There is an hypothesis... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
resulting, just-published book, Business Solutions for the Global Poor, is to accelerate the adoption of new, scalable solutions to the global poverty problem," notes HBS professor John Quelch, a member of the conference committee.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
require a healthy balance between the forces of vision and motivating passion and those of process, structure, and efficient systems. Howard Schultz I think there are also lessons for established businesses in Brand New in terms of the ability to translate a single... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
concerns about the tragedy at Japan's Fukushima plant, he maintains that nuclear power "is a scalable technology that has significant room for technological improvement, safety enhancement, proliferation resistance, regulatory redesign,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
social enterprise to address issues of scalability and sustainability. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-020 chotuKool: 'Little Cool,' Big Opportunity In 2013, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
year. Early research shows that students in schools led by NLNS principals are outperforming their peers, but Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
quite difficult to bring to the urban seven billion. The fourth approach is the one we need to follow, and it's squarely in the domain of business and environment. The big, high leverage, scalable opportunity involves our extending... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; James P. Dougherty,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
interfaces have allowed Twitter to focus on their unique plug-and-play component. Beyond that, they have created impressive and scalable operating capabilities of their own though an impressive combination of resources and processes. They... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Scalability Matters The data showed that the finance industry rewarded talented workers to a far greater extent than did other industries. Bankers who had gone to top engineering schools made vastly more money than those who had gone to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written for PELP and taught by HBS... View Details