Continuous Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the HBS MBA program have seen a similar trajectory, although there have been periods of plateaus, including the time we are in right now. As the world is rapidly changing, HBS is asking challenging questions about how the MBA can remain essential and how the School can... View Details

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by COVID-19, and social distancing will continue to make many small restaurants unviable. Reduced revenue flows will never cover the rent. But not all is lost. In our research, one... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

grandfather to cancer, a man who embodied the very essence of what it meant to live a purposeful life. He had advanced the lives of millions in Asia by bringing systematic and industrial practice in textile to developing Asian countries.... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure they can continue working. We... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

How do you assess the viability of a heat pump? Through an Independent Project with Professor George Serafeim, Meghavi Talati (MBA 2023) set out to develop a tool to help the average consumer navigate this decision. The Rise of Electric... View Details

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

that management challenges and opportunities posed by such things as the need for sustainability, the development of the metaverse, questions about the future of work and the workplace, grey swans such as pandemics, and on and on, are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.” Eisenmann has View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Case

The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira

The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States

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20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

future," Miller says. There is no blueprint for the right way to share information, he adds. A strong IR function is best developed in a way consistent with the firm's unique operating position. "What is really fascinating is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

area, some of them from other countries, including China. However, most of the jobs, in assembling and packing the components, are of necessity low-wage in nature. Regardless of the number of jobs it can create, manufacturing activity will be critical to the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2024
News

Case Study: Testing the Waters

online and through retail stores. In an omnichannel buying world, those are significant assets that Lauren should continue to leverage and develop more fully before entering different categories. —Frank... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

authors write. Jobs based in San Francisco, Boston, and New York continue to offer a high-level of job postings with one or more days a week of remote work. Miami, among other cities in the southern US, is almost back to its pre-pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

sharpen conversation skills is through practice, experimentation, feedback, reflection and more practice. “How to talk gooder in business and life” will help Elective Curriculum (EC) students hone their conversational skills—so they can View Details

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

31 Oct 2023
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

shutdowns, unemployment, and vaccine distribution. But because Senegal is a developing country, with an emerging economy, Diagne needed his team to mitigate risk, protect the public’s health, and educate the population. That all needed to... View Details

2001
Chapter

Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn

U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry