Best Practices Transfer - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

shifted from centuries-old practice of handwritten ledgers to a digital spreadsheet on a personal computer. Which leads to the second lesson, which is that “a killer app doesn’t guarantee enduring success.” When Mitch Kapor left the... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

22 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Case Protagonists at HBS

to shareholders or build a business (or any other business-related situation). Those leaders are called case protagonists, and they could be CEOs, Presidents, board members, analysts, you name it. How often do case protagonists visit class? The View Details

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

multiple actors and causal mechanisms that are still poorly understood. In such cases, it can still be useful to try to measure what an organization is doing and whether its strategies are working to influence societal change. But there's a tradeoff in terms of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

member with a faculty member in a corresponding Senior Associate Dean role, has proven very effective at HBS. A key undertaking of the pair will be to work with experts in organization change processes and build on best View Details

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

Click to watch. “The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers,” says Harvard Business School Professor Thomas DeLong, who since 1997 has taught more than 20,000 MBAs and executives... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, and the company.” However, it didn’t trigger the amount of follow-on research that the subject deserved after early interest in the topic died... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

sustainable finance is, its challenges, the path forward, and its key players. Akanksha Davera Sustainable Investing Participant Gain frameworks and analytical tools you can apply to make future financial decisions that serve your clients’ or organization’s goals and... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips

taking a less transparent route by selling less product in the same package and perhaps hoping the consumer doesn’t notice. Here, HBS faculty members John Gourville and Alex MacKay discuss the ups and downs of the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure requirements we find no change in the earnings quality of client firms. In sum, data drawn from an earlier time period suggest that auditors' reputational incentives, possible synergies, and knowledge View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers. Workspaces have View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

inequities in the business sector, and emerging best practices for combatting or addressing them. Our third cohort of Fellows will start in September 2024. Explore the BiGS Fellows Learn more about the... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a struggle. "I had no View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

in large organizations. Participants work hard either in support of or against the policies and practices of their leaders. As Kellerman puts it, "they care enough to try to have an impact." Clearly it's in the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct entrepreneurs to the best... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

a company for doing the best job they can and succeed?” Others argued that market definition is changing in ways that render United States anti-trust policy outdated in an increasingly global economy. As Craig Parietti & Partners put... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

issue." Just how the idea might be implemented more widely was a concern of several. As Michael Hogan put it, " absent a revival of the organized labor movement it is boards who are best positioned to reverse this ultimately fatal trend... View Details