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  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

As a child, Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) had a big dream – to one day design engines for Ferrari. While naysayers told him to be realistic, Memme took that advice to mean he would need to pour himself into this goal for it to become a reality.... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

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

Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are courses that offer students a great opportunity to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics you might otherwise never get to study. These courses run for one week in January... View Details
  • 2015
  • Chapter

From Periphery to Core: A Process Model for Embracing Sustainability

By: Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati
There is a growing call for business enterprises to adopt sustainability principles and practices, yet many established organizations continue to struggle in their quest to embrace them. In this chapter, we analyze how organizations that relegate sustainability to the... View Details
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    Akshita Joshi

    Akshita Joshi is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. She has 15 years of work experience & holds an MBA from Stanford GSB & an M.A. in Psychology from UCP Portugal. Her research is focused on the emotional,... View Details

    • 20 Mar 2017
    • Book

    Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

    convinced Lakhani to drop his engineering aspirations and become a scholar of innovation. Lakhani has devoted much of his research at HBS exploring how communities and contests can be designed to achieve innovative outcomes. Last year, he... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Oct 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Negotiating in Three Dimensions

    kinds of mistakes from the U.S. Midwest. In this case, environmentalists and farmers opposed a power company's plans to build a dam. On the surface, the parties appeared to have deep, irreconcilable positions, which had resulted in a long stalemate. Yet a superior deal... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 24 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy

    Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
    • 19 Jul 2019
    • News

    What Useful Roles Can Aspiring Entrepreneurs Take On?

    • March 2008
    • Article

    Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

    We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics
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    • 17 Jun 2015
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Excellence Comes From Saying No

    human rights commission of the war-torn African country where he was raised. He systematically used the course material to criticize hypocrisy at the commission-as well as criticize himself for not having high enough standards. "I started to View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • November 2019
    • Case

    Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
    In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
    Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 11 Jan 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 11

    http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470634251.html Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Publication:Wiley... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments?

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The literature on the competitiveness of locations has traditionally focused on countries. Over the last decade, however, subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; Regions; Economic Policy; Competition; Geographic Scope; Governance; Economy; Policy
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    • 19 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Radical Design, Radical Results

    the competitive advantage gained by how a product "speaks" to a customer is clear. Just think about how Apple began its resurrection in 1998 with the unthinkable design of computers made of... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
    • Teaching Interest

    Field Course: Social Innovation Lab

    By: Brian L. Trelstad
    Co-taugh with Prof. John Kim
    This course provides students an opportunity to use the discipline of entrepreneurial... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Social Enterprise
    • 09 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

    For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
    Keywords: by Glen Justice
    • December 2006
    • Case

    Vipp A/S

    By: Robert D. Austin and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms: Trash bins. Examines how the company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Creativity; Product Design; Luxury; Brands and Branding
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    • February 2004
    • Case

    Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion

    By: Nitin Nohria and Bridget Gurtler
    Human beings are driven by reasons and emotions. On the one hand, as rational choice theorists assert, human beings are resourceful and evaluative as they strive to maximize their own interests. An individual's interests can converge or diverge from the interests of... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Emotions; Interests; Organizations; Organizational Design; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Srikant M. Datar
    Professor Datar has several research and course development interests. His initial areas of research interest were in cost management and management control, strategy implementation and governance. Over the last few years his areas of interest are management education,... View Details
    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good

    By: Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang and Max Bazerman
    In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls employed the ‘veil of Ignorance’ as a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial thinking. By imagining the choices of decision-makers who are blind to biasing information, one might see more clearly the organizing... View Details
    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Judgments; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making
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