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  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

for Boomers to step aside, and for the new generation to step up,” says George, now an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. “They are the leaders we need.” Many Baby Boomers in the US are rejecting the idea of a quiet Florida retirement and View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Research Summary

The new property: computational property, intellectual property, and cyberspace

The objective of this project is to design ownership regimes for property located in cyberspace, such as websites, links for e-travel, applets that run on distant processors, and other related computational species. The driving assumption of the project is that the... View Details
  • Research Summary

The Competitive Advantage of Nations and Regions

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter continues to extend his study first reported in The Competitive Advantage of Nations. Porter has published books and studies of other countries, states, and cities, including Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,... View Details
  • 04 Oct 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Annabelle Fowler (Harvard University), Harvard University

    The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

    This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

    He adds that if a firm doesn’t have a seasonal nature to it and opts to cut pay, it “can expect [its] best workers to walk out the door.” For employees, a decision to leave a company most likely depends on whether they can easily get... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    reasonable profits and reduced Hepatitis C, and rates of which are expected to fall by 86 percent between 2020 and 2030, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. This real-world example demonstrates how a business model can help Big... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • Web

    Apply - Crossover Into Business

    interested in learning more about business? Prior business experience is not a “must,” but what experience do you have in business? What are your goals as they relate to the Crossover program? We expect everyone who enrolls in the program... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

    their employees are juggling to provide the right professional support. Focus on output, not hours. It’s virtually impossible to track how employees are actually using their time. Instead, managers should focus on the quality of their work. View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 15 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 15, 2015

    or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five studies show that people sensibly... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    student demand and funds available. We expect that you will receive a percentage of your request, based on student demand and funds available. Organizations can find more information about posting an independent project on the MBA... View Details
    • 06 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

    demands or expectations of others, we often underestimate our ability to control our own destiny and overcome the constraints we face—or think we face. I Moved Your Cheese reminds us that we can create the new circumstances and realities... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice as hard for a quarter of the results. We have reduced the... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 21 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?

    opportunity to redouble their efforts and grab more market share, or take it as a warning that it might be time to get out while the getting was good? A new research study suggests that more companies than expected see a half-empty glass... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • News

    Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

    correlation with superior shareholder returns from those leaders who have the sense of humility and self-awareness.” The article tracks Wesfarmers’ recent rise in stock price (about 40% over the past five years) and notes Scott’s View Details
    • 27 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

    missions. Three, it could have simply rejected the new national security mandate. In reality, it didn’t play out in any of those ways. “Nothing in prior theory led us to expect what we observed—in essence, structural ambidexterity... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    Innovating in Energy: Learning from High-Potential Ventures

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter

    My work at HBS has always focused on high-potential ventures.  Most recently, these have been professionally financed start-ups and buyouts in newly emerging energy and cleantech businesses. These ventures tend to be based on innovative insights into technology and... View Details

    • May–June 2021
    • Article

    Capturing Value in Platform Business Models that Rely on User-Generated Content

    By: Hemang Subramanian, Sabyasachi Mitra and Sam Ransbotham
    Business models increasingly depend on inputs from outside traditional organizational boundaries. For example, platforms that generate revenue from advertising, subscription, or referral fees often rely on user-generated content (UGC). But there is considerable... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Network Effects; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

    By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
    This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education

    By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
    Problem: Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
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