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  • 24 Apr 2015
  • News

An Anti-Creativity Checklist for 2015

  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

economic terms,” Gompers says. The higher returns could be due to one of several explanations, he says. For starters, since women face such a disadvantage in being hired in the first place, it is possible... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Feb 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

foster income inequality That being said, the collective corporate hierarchy (needs to) make the long needed effort to voluntarily minimize the gross inequality that now exists." Desiree Halse, after quoting verses memorized as a child... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2022
  • Chapter

The Origins of the Developmental State: The European Experience

By: Sophus A. Reinert
Book Abstract: There has been a major revival of interest in State Capitalism: what it is, where it is found, and why it is seemingly becoming more ubiquitous. As a concept, it has evolved from radical critiques of the Soviet Union, to being deployed by neo-liberals to... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; History; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Europe
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  • 22 May 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Testing Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24

Keywords: by Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp & V.G. Narayanan; Food & Beverage
  • September 2020
  • Case

Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Rich or King

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines issues such as cascading problems within the organization, changing founder roles, founder success criteria, as well as company exit consideration. In 2017, Dr. Torben Antretter, a former competitive tennis player and academic researcher, founded... View Details
Keywords: Exit; Startup; Financing; Founders; Entrepreneurship; Law; Venture Capital; Success; Financing and Loans; Business Growth and Maturation; Strategy; Legal Services Industry; Germany
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    When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

    New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
    • Program

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

    potential threats, identifying and responding to novel risk events, and protecting enterprise value. By improving your ability to organize, manage, and govern the risk management function, you will be better prepared to protect your... View Details
    • 04 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

    Kristen Fitzpatrick (HBS '03) is the Managing Director of HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD). In this role, she also coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is familiar with many industries and... View Details
    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

    thought to the challenges the company will face in the years ahead. While it is impossible to completely predict the future business environment, boards should be looking for leaders who are visionary as View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

    Akron, Ohio tire cluster—to try to discover how Akron companies turned into what he calls a "community of inertia." Drawing as well on research by other scholars, including Harvard University Professor Michael E. Porter, Sull's... View Details
    Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
    • February 2017 (Revised February 2018)
    • Case

    Frank Baker: Siris Capital Group and Titan Systems

    By: Steven Rogers and Derrick Collins
    Private equity firm, Siris Capital Group, must decide if they should raise their offer to take Titan Telecom private by acquiring its publicly traded stock. Siris’ decision to pay a premium for Titan must be made in the context of their unique (and somewhat complex)... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Mobile Technology; Financial Services Industry; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • January 2013 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    The Basque Country: Strategy for Economic Development

    By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jesus M. Valdaliso
    The Basque country, with a population of 2.1 million and covering 7,233 square kilometers, is an autonomous region located in the north of Spain, physically separated from it by the Pyrenees Mountains. Presents the history of the region—highly prosperous at the turn of... View Details
    Keywords: History; Crime and Corruption; Industry Clusters; Competitive Strategy; Microeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Basque Provinces; Spain
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    • 05 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Business and the Global Poor

    2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

      Rakesh Khurana

      Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

      Professor... View Details

      Keywords: executive search
      • 01 Oct 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

      What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were... View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons
      • 08 Jan 2007
      • What Do You Think?

      Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

      others are fearful." A lot of this comes down to knowing yourself, with or without the benefit of MRI devices. Are we about to be subject to a number of striking conclusions based on studies involving a... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • December 2010
      • Article

      Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)

      By: William A. Sahlman
      The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Ethics; Policy; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      • 11 Dec 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

      Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff
      • 26 Apr 2024
      • Blog Post

      How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

      to work in Boston with an HBS alum who took me to visit campus for the first time. Business school was something I had been aware of, but after hearing her talk about HBS and walking around the campus – I knew that I wanted it to be a... View Details