Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

has encountered several hiccups in recent years that have put the timing of its implementation in question, leading Rebecca M. Henderson, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

grasping the revolutionary potential of the new digital medium. As a result, corporations have failed to adapt to the true nature View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

transparency,” says Cullen, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. Meanwhile, the legal landscape has shifted in recent years toward... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Advanced Leadership Initiative

At Harvard, Rosabeth Moss Kanter is chair and director of the Advanced Leadership Initiative, a University-wide faculty group aimed at deploying a leadership force of experienced leaders who... View Details

14 Jul 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul

environment that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world. You will have the opportunity to be surrounded by a diverse group of peers that will challenge View Details

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

by author, album, or genre, and provides a better navigation experience. Digital encoding quality varies widely in p2p networks, but it has continued to improve over the years and in many cases surpasses... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

The past 10 years have seen some level of this direct marketing model bear out. But according to an HBS working paper to be published in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

01 Feb 2016
Blog Post

What is the HBS Latin America Club?

Last October, around 100 HBS Latin American students, together with our families, celebrated the beginning of a new semester with a weekend retreat in Cape Cod. At this annual celebration we welcomed View Details

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

in nature,” observe the authors of Pettiness in Social Exchange, a paper published last year in the Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

Web

A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

impact.” Why SEI @ HBS? The community around Social Enterprise activities at HBS is a large, diverse group of faculty, staff, and students—there are definitely a lot View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

says Harvard Business School professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, was their dedication to responding to the needs of employees and the community first,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

United States. They call the effort "Project Bison." If everything goes according to plan, several of Hobbes' successors will be in place in Wyoming by late 2023. By 2030—that's just seven View Details

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

circles. Q: What makes technology transfer happen? Is it entrepreneurial opportunity in the home country, a loyalty to the home country, or government policies that encourage or require people to come home?... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

the Trump Administration authorized $7 billion in disaster loans for small businesses affected by COVID-19. The program helps businesses in states that have declared emergency status borrow as much as much... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

2015
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate

In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States

Citation

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01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

see as the greatest opportunity for the intersection of business and the environment at HBS? There’s a real opportunity for business innovation... View Details

March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
Case

Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino and Olivia Hull

A year after Norwegian grocery chain REMA 1000 adopted Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise social network, Chief Human Resource Officer Tore Høylie is asked to evaluate its impact on company culture and communication. Almost 90% of the workforce is engaged with the... View Details

Keywords: Social Network; Enterprise Social Media; Facebook; Workplace; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Knowledge Sharing; Social Media; Retail Industry; Norway