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  • 08 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 8, 2015

support for both of these, but in different settings. In particular, we find that firms with higher CSR Investments enjoy an average of $1 billion of saved firm value upon an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2020
  • Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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  • Research Summary

Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

By: Rebecca M. Henderson

Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
  • Case

Phu My Hung

By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic... View Details
Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Viet Nam
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  • Program

Private Equity and Venture Capital

and Venture Capital raises your level of investment expertise. As you examine the full range of industry models—from venture capital to growth equity to buyouts—you will learn how to build more effective... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • 24 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology
  • March 2013
  • Other Article

Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs

By: Michael E. Porter, Erika A. Pabo and Thomas H. Lee
Primary care in the United States currently struggles to attract new physicians and to garner investments in infrastructure required to meet patients' needs. We believe that the absence of a robust overall strategy for the entire spectrum of primary care is a... View Details
Keywords: Health
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    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details
    • 28 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

    While companies may tout their wellness programs as a way of investing in their employees’ well-being, many are overly focused on reducing healthcare costs, so they tend to... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson
    • Blog

    Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

    resources that can help women find the right corporate board. Step 5: Research Each Opportunity Thoroughly and Prepare for the Interviews When an opportunity comes, you want to find out as much View Details
    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    Zhuo Business Economics Sagar Saxena Business Economics “ HBS is the ideal environment because I get to think about the world like an economist, but I have the freedom and resources to draw on methods from other disciplines View Details
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Supplement

    LendingClub (B): Decision Trees & Random Forests

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    This case builds directly on the LendingClub (A) case. In this case students follow Emily Figel as she builds two tree-based models using historical LendingClub data to predict, with some probability, whether borrower will repay or default on his loan.
    ... View Details
    Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Decision Trees; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction
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    Whit Collier

    driving edge (“alpha”) in a given mandate, and transitioning from Analyst to PM roles. He also has expertise in fund manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction, and currently serves on an OCIO (“Outsources Chief View Details
    • June–July 2019
    • Article

    A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise IT Architecture and Evaluating Its Modifiability

    By: Robert Lagerström, Alan MacCormack, David Dreyfus and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    Recent contributions to information systems theory suggest that the primary role of a firm’s information technology (IT) architecture is to facilitate, and therefore ensure the continued alignment of a firm’s IT investments with a constantly changing business... View Details
    Keywords: Enterprise Architecture; Modularity; Information Systems; Modifiability; Design Structure Matrix
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    • 17 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

    incentive plan as an insult. If a positive story isn’t wrapped around the incentive plan, Hall says, “You lose over time, because people feel like they’re being bribed.” Do: Try to measure the unmeasurable... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 06 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The Innovator’s Battle Plan

    seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
    • 15 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Free Software

    vendors like IBM and Oracle on the open source community. Why are proprietary firms diving into open source? The answer (it's good for business) is hardly shocking. But the line from investing in OSS to profiting from a product is not... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
    • 22 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 22

    Proceedings Crime and Punishment: The Reputational Consequences of Withdrawals from Venture Capital Syndicates By: Zhelyazkov, Pavel Ivanov, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Traditional research has long treated reputation as View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 8

    http://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Corporate Venturing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne