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Regina E. Herzlinger
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details
Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.
In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
differences, proposes a sequence of stratagems that may enable entrepreneurs to alter strategy while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our theoretical framework posits that for ventures, reorientation without penalty may depend on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- January 2014
- Teaching Note
Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone
The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks... View Details
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
of opportunities that education entrepreneurs are coalescing around. One of the sessions in the course is a thought experiment—if we could start from scratch, what kind of education system would we build? After Katrina, the New Orleans... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from LGBT rights to race relations to gender... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July–August 2018
- Article
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
By: Tarun Khanna
New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Society; Situation or Environment; Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
Khanna, Tarun. "When Technology Gets Ahead of Society." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 86–95.
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
HBS—each MBA can “choose her own adventure” and “create his own path”. Our students and alums are asking big questions about how to have an impact—which looks very different for different people. I’ve been heartened to learn the extent to which every View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Faculty & Advisors MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Faculty Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Ethel Zimmerman Winer Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
the funding cutoff and find that these angel investors have a positive impact on the growth, performance, and survival of firms as well as their follow-on fundraising. The positive impact of angel financing is independent of the level of venture activity and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- October 2023
- Case
Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
For more than fifteen years, successful Canadian entrepreneur and investor Kevin O’Leary had developed his brand into a global powerhouse. Since his first appearance on the Canadian television program Dragons’ Den in 2006 and his meteoric rise to stardom through the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Brand; Crisis; Brands and Branding; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Social Media; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Financial Services Industry
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters." Harvard Business School Case 824-095, October 2023.
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- February 2000 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
Women.com
By: Myra M. Hart and Sarah S. Khetani
Entrepreneurs Ellen Pack and Marleen McDaniel have founded a women's online network and watched it grow from an online subscription service in 1992 to one of the best known, widely visited women's networks on the web in 1999. While the company's vision has remained... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Networks; Transition; Web Services Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Women.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-216, February 2000. (Revised November 2000.)