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  • 31 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

pain points and desires. One participant remarked, given the unpredictability of the pandemic and the economy, companies should “serve their customers, not sell to them,” and... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design View Details
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

resilience while changing your relationship to stress, and shares a roadmap for sustainable performance in the face of ongoing change. How to Wash a Chicken: Mastering the Business Presentation by Tim... View Details
  • 21 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

strategy supports this goal. It is rare to find a firm that provides its board with a scorecard that allows this. Q: From a 30,000-foot view, how do the Measuring Market View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original... View Details
  • March 2010 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Roll Back Malaria and BCG: The Change Initiative

By: Nava Ashraf, Rachel Gordon and Catherine Ross
Roll Back Malaria, a global partnership dedicated to fighting malaria has not met its founders' expectations of effectively combatting malaria. In 2005, after several internal evaluations, RBM leadership has decided to engage the Boston Consulting Group to work on a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Evaluation; Communication Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Non-Governmental Organizations; Change Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Negotiation; Health Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Skooter, his wife of sixty years, as she accompanied him on work-related trips to foreign countries. A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry by David H. Gaylin (MBA 1979) (Business Expert Press) At their best, the View Details
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

markets faster through the existing distribution network of the acquirer, or through the ability to invest quickly in significantly expanded facilities. Compared to an IPO, it allows the careful delineation of accountability and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

system clash with the digital age, and how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors show how business must serve both as innovator and activist, developing... View Details
  • January 2017
  • Article

Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods

By: Dina Pomeranz
Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public... View Details
Keywords: Practice; Public Sector; Research; Policy; Performance Evaluation
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  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

administrative aberration indicating weak state control, while others see it as a strategy for consolidating authority. This essay traces the historical development of iq ā and ijārah, two Perso-Arabic terms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

notion of strategy was put away,” another said. “In the most critical times, it was just next month.” Inflation was a particular problem. Argentina’s annual inflation rate reached 438 per cent in 1976, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2020
  • News

Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups

2012. WHOOP, founded by Harvard College students at the i-lab in 2012, announced this week that it has raised a $100M Series E round at a valuation of more than $1 billion. "We will continue to make WHOOP the best product experience for View Details
  • 01 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

laboratory to study coach-team matching effects. Clear-cut measures of team performance and precise employment records are publicly available, View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • Teaching Interest

Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

identical resumes. Using a novel control condition, we document that this discrimination is not specific to gender and is instead driven by beliefs. Employers are simply less willing to hire a worker from a group that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations... View Details