Systemic Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

Since its founding in 1908, HBS has viewed business as a powerful means for improving society. More than a century later, says Dean Srikant Datar, “the role we can play in tackling systemic challenges has become more important, whether in... View Details

10 Aug 2015
News

A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

people, so we’ve created a support system to make that possible,” Kapila says. “The thing I love in my job is I get both the big-picture impact and the direct one-on-one seeing the growth of the people in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Books

(Harvard Business Review Press) Drawing on his years of experience studying and advising VC firms, companies, and governments, Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional open and VC-backed... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy

from vegan Olympian Seba Johnson to prominent documentary director of Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos. What made you decide to take this SIP? Monika: I’m very passionate about food system sustainability and the plant-based economy is a key... View Details

08 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

school districts through Systemic Reform in Urban Districts and Schools, a class at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Chelsea hopes to follow a similar pathway with an emphasis on changing systems... View Details

24 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

governance system (ownership and regulation, and country of origin). The results confirm that factors in each of these areas are important determinants of the size and structure of headquarters. Performance data suggest that these... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

work together to create all aspects of the urban environment. Also necessary are new systems and processes for helping cities operate efficiently and effectively, including the use of new information and communication technologies already... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

commercial scale. Verdant, for example, is currently raising funds to develop turbines twice as large for deployment off the coast of Wales, where Smith anticipates generating megawatts of electricity by 2025. And he has his eyes on an even larger prize: Once the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Dec 2017
News

Removing Barriers

welcomed at HBS: The experience “broadened my horizons in ways I couldn’t have imagined,” Anita says. Indian educational institutions, she adds, are relatively homogeneous, with a pedagogical system that is centered on the top-down model... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and the Future of the Financial... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

shocks in the system like the one we saw earlier this year.” How has the pandemic impacted the people you serve and how are you and the organization helping address these challenges? “We are serving more... View Details

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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology

confidential information outside of where it should be stored or shared. To meet security remediation goals, HBS IT has also partnered with a managed services provider to streamline security system monitoring and updating. This initiative... View Details

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a percentage of capital expenditure... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the... View Details