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- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
four sections of the course, with 68 students in each section. Some 170 more students were wait-listed. The course's popularity is a reflection of its universal nature—it addresses quandaries that virtually all View Details
- 27 May 2015
- News
A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial
- March 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Module Note
The Social Purpose of the Firm
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
The Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) is a short module designed to explore how, and under what circumstances, business leaders can harness the power of capitalism and markets to “make a difference in the world” – that is, to address a significant societal problem as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Accounting; Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Mission and Purpose; United States; Sweden; Kenya; Netherlands
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The Social Purpose of the Firm." Harvard Business School Module Note 323-051, March 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- Article
An Invitation to Market Design
By: Scott Duke Kominers, Alexander Teytelboym and Vincent P. Crawford
Market design seeks to translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market designers can... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Trading; Scrip; Liquidity; Efficiency; Equity; Allocation Rules; Marketplaces; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Auctions
Kominers, Scott Duke, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford. "An Invitation to Market Design." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 33, no. 4 (Winter 2017): 541–571.
- 17 Jun 2015
- News
Is Small Beautiful?
- 24 Jan 2012
- Video
2012 Alumni New Venture Prize Contest: Grand Prize
- 10 Sep 2010
- News
Emerging markets new global playgrounds for growing MNCs
- 16 Dec 2024
- Video
Professor Paul Gompers on the Foundry Survey Project
- Research Summary
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Rembrand Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research examines matching and selection frictions in firm growth and strategy, with an aim to help entrepreneurs and... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- News
Raising a risk-averse generation
- 25 May 2016
- Video
HBS Immersive Field Courses (IFCs): A Deeper Look
- August 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Teaching Note
To Prioritize Money or Time? The P-Mot Exercise (Instructor)
By: Ashley Whillans and Liz Goldenberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 921-012. Working professionals are often in the predicament of needing to make a choice between activities that will grant them more money or more time. Indeed, in large-scale representative panels of working adults, most respondents... View Details
- 29 Apr 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Holds 14th Annual Business Plan Contest
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Three Reasons Everything Goes Better with Partners
- December 2017 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016
By: Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Toyin J. Okanlawon
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) began as a stand-alone hospital in the heart of downtown Philadelphia in 1855. By 2016 the CHOP Care Network stretched across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Networks; Integration; Strategy; Health Industry; Philadelphia
Porter, Michael E., Thomas W. Feeley, and Toyin J. Okanlawon. "The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016." Harvard Business School Case 718-420, December 2017. (Revised April 2018.)
- 19 Feb 2015
- News
An Afternoon With Stephen Schwarzman
- August 2020
- Article
Workplace Knowledge Flows
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Performance Productivity; Sales; Motivation and Incentives
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Workplace Knowledge Flows." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020): 1635–1680.