Smart Buildings - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

alternatives to factory-farmed meat. They are recreating muscle fiber structure using plant ingredients and building a food and material science innovation platform that will create step-change improvement in meat alternative product... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

and less about hands-on doing. So really the challenge is about delegation and achieving leverage; and on some level it's about finding, hiring, developing, and retaining top people. With those individuals, you then have to build an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

associated with the building of industry giants. Overcapacity acquisitions are aimed at reducing capacity and duplication. They happen when the giants must be trimmed down to fit shrinking world markets. Recommendations Acquired companies... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

lodging demand. "If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users." The research results could also have broader implications for promoting racial equity at a wide range of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

steeped in their church communities. As a black woman, no matter how wealthy she was, she would not have been welcome or even allowed in any respectable hotel. Her church connections also formed the basis of her agent network and helped View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

Profile

Ahmed Alimi

Ahmed. "In Nigeria where I studied before now, the teaching method is lecture-based. The case method is very different for me—but it's a confidence-building process. Whatever you say, you have to be ready to back it up with evidence, because you have 95 View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

results and interact with shareholders,” says Desai, who is also a Harvard Law School professor. “The problem is that people perceive finance to be this difficult building block. I want executives to have more comfort with it and to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

system can require scores if not hundreds of person-work-years to be designed. No one person can be responsible for the design of a whole system. No one is either smart enough or long-lived enough to do the design work single handedly.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

there and tell them that we were taking the company to higher ground. We were going to get the workplace and the marketplace right. I think every CEO needs to do that in a smart way." See related story on Higher-Ambition CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

the rest of the employees were safely leaving the building and that the fire was contained. I learned that real leadership means running toward the fire and being concerned about the safety of others before your own. —John Fees (MBA 1999)... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means transitioning to a nonprofit, or spinning... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food... View Details

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

innovation strategy, design a system for creativity, and build up an enterprise’s cultural DNA. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, shares insights in our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Your title, Creative... View Details