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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

featuring five second-year Elective Curriculum students (ECs) who completed summer internships across the energy industry. This year, students’ experiences ranged from startups like Advanced Microgrid Solutions to larger players like NextEra Energy – and from... View Details
  • October 2018
  • Case

Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at Cafe Cupcake

By: Anthony Mayo and Heather Beckham
Café Cupcake (CC) is a fast-casual restaurant chain that offers artisan cupcakes and light fare throughout the southeastern United States and Texas. This case chronicles the growth and evolution of Café Cupcake. It also considers the specific human resource challenges... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Human Resources; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

Krieger says. The study’s findings suggest that a doubling in a company’s product exposure to the benefits of Medicare Part D led to a 15 percent increase in the development of new drugs. And almost all of that additional development... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Sharing Models to Interpret Data

By: Joshua Schwartzstein and Adi Sunderam
To understand new data, we share models or interpretations with others. This paper studies such exchanges of models in a community. The key assumption is that people adopt the interpretation in their community that best explains the data, given their prior beliefs. An... View Details
Keywords: Social Learning Theory; Theory; Social Issues; Cognition and Thinking; Social and Collaborative Networks; Attitudes
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  • 12 May 2009
  • News

Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark

  • Program

Senior Executive Leadership Program—India

establish or expand presence in the India and South Asia region. Participants typically represent organizations including: Large, established companies Entrepreneurial ventures—either new companies or new... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

Keywords: by Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Willy C. Shih
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

A new study of pandemic-induced remote workers and their employers suggests that at least 16 percent will remain at-home workers long after the COVID-19 crisis has receded. The survey of 1,800 people in both small and larger businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Article

Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies

By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporation; State-owned Enterprises; State Capitalism; FDI; Internationalization; Government And Business; National Oil Companies; State Ownership; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; Energy Industry; China; India; Europe
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  • April 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Buro Happold

By: Robert G. Eccles and Kerry Herman
Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a structure of having each... View Details
Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Programs
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  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders and employees, Kanter argues in her View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

venture investor. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Arkitekt Ventures, an early stage Health + Bio investment firm with the mission to improve and advance human health. Recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the Top Ten... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

  Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication links, geographic collocation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman & Jonathan T. Kolstad; Health
  • 15 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Joel Isaac, University of Cambridge

  • 30 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

ramifications for Facebook’s long-term business success. But can Facebook avoid changing its business model? What do you think? Original Column Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, one of the most dominant firms on the internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
  • May 2010
  • Case

Alpen Bank: Launching the Credit Card in Romania

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
In 2006, the country manager for Alpen Bank in Romania, Gregory Carle, considers whether to recommend the launch of a credit card business. The firm rejected the idea several years earlier because of poor economic conditions in Romania. However, Romania is experiencing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Credit; International Business; International Marketing; Product Introduction; Service Management; Credit Cards; Globalized Firms and Management; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Personal Finance; Product Launch; Banking Industry; European Union; Romania
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  • October 2021
  • Article

Overcoming the Cold Start Problem of CRM Using a Probabilistic Machine Learning Approach

By: Nicolas Padilla and Eva Ascarza
The success of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) programs ultimately depends on the firm's ability to understand consumers' preferences and precisely capture how these preferences may differ across customers. Only by understanding customer heterogeneity, firms can... View Details
Keywords: Customer Management; Targeting; Deep Exponential Families; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Cold Start Problem; Customer Relationship Management; Programs; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
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    Derek C. M. van Bever

    Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

    • Research Summary

    The Effect of the Internet on Wages

    Who benefits from the adoption of technology in the workplace? To explore, I combine worker-level wage data with information on broadband adoption by Brazilian firms to estimate the effects of broadband on wages. Overall, wages increase 2.3 percent following... View Details

    Keywords: Internet; Organization Design; Brazil; Technology; Wages; Brazil