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  • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Supplement

OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
In February 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian, celebrated the airline’s OneTen partnership in a room full of Atlanta’s prominent business leaders, educators, and public servants in Atlanta, at a OneTen/Delta Launch Event. To support... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Race; Leading Change; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Atlanta
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  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

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

But, frustrated Gen Xers and Millennials need not give up—their time will come, and they need to prepare now. “We desperately need this generation to learn how to manage diverse people, and manage through... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 21 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?

instance, a manager might hire or disqualify job candidates based on whether they make good eye contact during an interview, just because past candidates who made good eye contact ended up performing well at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

the quiet rule-breaking could mean developing code with management's approval for open-source external company projects. For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until the workday has officially... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • February 2020
  • Supplement

Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries

By: Amanda Dahlstrand, Dávid László, Helena Schweiger, Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun
Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages of development led by the right CEOs, and if not, why? We develop a parsimonious measure of CEO time use that allows us to differentiate CEOs into... View Details
Keywords: Training; Management Skills; Economic Growth; Leadership Development
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  • 07 Nov 2023
  • News

Love and Money

more efficient. And so concierge services like matchmakers or dating coaching or consulting services, they're very expensive. It's a luxury good that you can buy to make it more efficient, so that when you show up for an actual date, you... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Leading in Tough Times: HBS Faculty member Amy C. Edmondson on Psychological Safety

speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Psychological safety describes an environment of low interpersonal fear. The fear of making a negative impression can drive all kinds of sub-optimal behavior—such as not speaking... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

also picked up by major news outlets, including The New York Times. “It actually got a real response from United Airlines,” says Pacelli, noting that the CEO publicly apologized for the incident and United later agreed to settle a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) asked students to describe their career interests and what they are up to this summer. Current Position: Business Analysis & Operations Intern Company and Location: Stealth Mode Robotics... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

What is SVMP?

May is a busy month at HBS. First year students are finishing up exams and heading to summer internships around the world, and second year students are saying their goodbyes and preparing for life after HBS. The hustle and bustle of May... View Details
  • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?

By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau
At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details
Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom and William R. Kerr
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the... View Details
Keywords: Entry; Growth; Industrial Policy; Innovation; R＆D; Reallocation; Selection; Business Ventures; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Policy; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development; United States
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  • 28 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

simulations, the model suggests that life-year expectancies for the program can be increased by up to 8 percent, depending on variables plugged into the process. As with the "Moneyball" metrics movement in baseball, the goal of... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

Aadhaar to the creation of bank accounts," Raina explains. "It is envisaged that Aadhaar will be used in a variety of other ways to reduce criminal diversion of government subsidies, lessen the burden on taxpayers, and open up... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

preferences contribute to disparities in the workplace. Ultimately, this study aims to extend this line of research to include non-binary individuals, revealing how their beliefs and preferences compare and providing insights for managers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

prepared for an extended, indefinite lockdown. The company cut its annual operating expenses by $1 billion, as well as its capital costs by hundreds of millions. While some of those reductions came from laying off 820 people and furloughing an additional 537 for View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 06 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

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

literature in economics on why firms tend not to cut people’s pay,” says Stanton, an applied economist who is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “We can actually measure the consequences.” A ‘natural... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Research Summary

Overview

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details