Publications

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

shared their insights in an hour-long conversation. “It was a rare treat to be able to spotlight Howard Stevenson, who is legend in HBS entrepreneurship,” says Klein, founder and CEO of On Grid Ventures. “Having View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2019
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 15 The IBM PC

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light of the theory of how technology shapes... View Details

Keywords: IBM; Personal Computer; Digital Platforms; System; Strategy

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26 Mar 2025
News

Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Dec 2020
News

Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick for budget chief, runs a think tank backed by corporate and foreign interests

08 May 2015
News

A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

Capital requirements for banks, which govern the ratio of equity to debt, have come under greater scrutiny in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. A central question is how these requirements affect banks’... View Details

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

to economic growth and used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

students take away a sense of the major forces that will determine the business and economic future of the African continent. I hope the gain a sense of the opportunities and a... View Details

14 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale

author Veronique Greenwood, both nonprofits and government organizations such as the Department of Energy estimate that “only 5 percent of plastic items disposed in the United States are recycled at all; the... View Details

January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
Case

PortageBay and ESG Analytics

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Radhika Kak

In 2023, sustainable investors faced several challenges. The first was the lack of access to standardized and vetted environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, and equally, the interpretation of this data into investment-useful insights. Reducing reliance on... View Details

Keywords: ESG Ratings; Investment Funds; Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

November 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Case

Collibra

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Collibra was a data intelligence company that found product-market fit in the years after the global financial crisis when many companies were under pressure from consumers and governments to improve their data management... View Details

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

essential for HBS’s technological evolution. The Solution The Cloud Program will establish clear cloud principles, architectural standards, and governance processes as well as... View Details

Chiara Farronato

Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and co-Principal Investigator of the Platform Lab at the Digital... View Details

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

consumers might react to the rule. A word-search analysis of the letters revealed that more than 25 percent mentioned the term "consumer," as in this line from one of the form letters on the SEC site:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

2011
Report

State of the Region Report 2011: The Top of Europe's Quest for Resilience--A Competitive Region Facing a Fragile Global Economy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The State of the Region Reports provide an annual discussion of competitiveness and collaboration across the Baltic Sea Region, covering the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries, Northern Germany, Northern Poland, and Northwestern Russia. The 2011 edition, the 8th in... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation; Baltic Countries

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Zoe Cullen graduated with a PhD from Stanford in Economics in 2016. She worked from 2016-2018 as the Chief Economist for an Asian bank on the roll out of a digital transaction platform. In 2018 she joined HBS as an Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial... View Details

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

January 2010 (Revised May 2012)
Case

TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing

By: Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Two-Sided Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Software; Technology Industry