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- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
which has pivoted to deliver PPEs globally to places that need the most. Prerna Arya (MBA 2021), Swasth: Swasth is a nonprofit initiative that aims to democratize View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations, Inventor-Founders, and Performance
By: Justine Boudou and Maria Roche
In this paper, we examine how a startup’s knowledge foundations—embedded in its
core technology—influence its performance in the exit market. Using a dataset of 1,006
biomedicine startups founded between 2005 and 2015, we focus on two key factors: (1)
the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Knowledge Foundations; Exits; Academic Startups; Inventor-founder; Specialized Scientific Knowledge; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Research; Information Publishing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship
Boudou, Justine, and Maria Roche. "Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations, Inventor-Founders, and Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-021, October 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
- Article
From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making.
By: Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton
Due to the sheer number and variety of decisions that people make in their everyday lives-from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses-research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has... View Details
Ariely, Dan, and Michael I. Norton. "From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 2, no. 1 (January–February 2011): 39–46.
- 29 Jun 2015
- News
Is it Better or Worse to be Raised by a Stay at Home Mom?
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
brain that records time. Further, it measures the time associated with a task and sets our expectations in subsequently performing similar tasks. That's why we become so impatient when it takes a couple of extra seconds to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
should be careful to respect a range of religious expressions. Take the case of auto parts retailer AutoZone, which agreed to pay $75,000 for telling an employee he couldn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is getting their... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
and agendas may surface that are better dealt with privately in a careful order. Large, open meetings may help opponents to identify each other, meet, join forces, and thus mount a more powerful combined... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- October 2023
- Case
Hey Jane: Delivering Abortion Pills to the Doorstep
By: Rembrand Koning, Geraldine Pena-Galea and Sarah Mehta
This case tells the story of Hey Jane, a telehealth clinic founded in 2020 that provides virtual medication abortion services to eligible patients in nine U.S. states. By January 2023, the company had served more than 20,000 patients and raised nearly $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Koning, Rembrand, Geraldine Pena-Galea, and Sarah Mehta. "Hey Jane: Delivering Abortion Pills to the Doorstep." Harvard Business School Case 724-408, October 2023.
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
that there are a lot of heroic people in service organizations who feel compelled to be the best at everything. That's particularly evident in mission-driven and health care organizations, where managers... View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
Companies looking for the best possible leaders—and leaders looking to become CEOs—would do well to heed the model of private-equity (PE) backed companies, which often look outside their ranks when hiring... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Bringing Power to the People
access to electricity. We are going to build a solar farm in the north of the country where there is no power plant at the moment. It has a real impact; we are bringing power... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation
By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive
corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks.
We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing), and Marco Iansiti. "Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-122, May 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
the skills and values needed to nurture a company and enable it to grow and prosper," he notes. "The numerous treks and special conferences organized by our students complement that goal by giving them View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
specialty crops like lentils, yellow peas, and garbanzo beans. The network has created the first semi-public repository of what Baron calls “real-world performance” data on inputs like seeds and chemicals. It functions as an information co-op: Individual farmers can... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At its base, she says,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
things better. What we'd like to do, though, is go from sort of being the firefighters to actually building the sprinkler systems, right? So having it all not just built ahead of time but having people be in... View Details