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  • May 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Together for Sustainability

By: Ranjay Gulati, David Shin and Emily Tedards
This case documents the origin and development of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a chemical industry initiative dedicated to raising sustainability standards throughout the industry’s supply chains. In 2011, six Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) from some of the... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry
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  • May 2023
  • Article

Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency

By: Zoë B. Cullen and Bobak Pakzad-Hurson
The public discourse around pay transparency has focused on the direct effect: how workers seek to rectify newly-disclosed pay inequities through renegotiations. The question of how wage-setting and hiring practices of the firm respond in equilibrium has received... View Details
Keywords: Pay Transparency; Online Labor Market; Privacy; Wage Gap; Corporate Disclosure; Wages; Negotiation
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  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count

For many organizations, virtual recruiting is an entirely new way of engaging with students. Company Conversations may also feel new if your organization is accustomed to engaging in a one-to-many-style presentation instead of small group Q&A. Based on student... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Competition in Modular Clusters

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands... View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
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  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retail asset productivity will not recover anytime soon. The Internet has created a daunting situation for category killers, one that will eventually impact almost all of retail. The focus that made category killers so powerful in the... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 14 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

  • 03 Jan 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by William Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking
  • May 2024
  • Article

Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms

By: Caroline Marra and Ariel D. Stern
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can enable more patient-centric therapeutic development by generating evidence that captures how patients feel and function, enabling decentralized trial designs that increase participant inclusivity and convenience, and collecting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Health Testing and Trials; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 23 Sep 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University

  • August 2015
  • Article

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

By: Pol Antràs and C. Fritz Foley
This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how these terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Financing and Loans; Trade
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  • Web

Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

and occupations, impacting organizations across diverse industries and at a global level. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) projects that approximately 1.1 billion jobs will undergo significant... View Details
  • 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
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

America or the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In a preliminary analysis, affiliated organizations were more likely to be in the South or Midwest. Scott’s impact on philanthropy—and philanthropists Early reports suggest that Scott’s... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
  • 20 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

directly on the project with the team. We collected daily diaries in order to understand everyone's day-by-day subjective experiences. We analyzed the connection between the daily events that people reported, their reactions to those... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Ashley V. Whillans
Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details
  • Research Summary

THEME #1: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH TEAM FAMILIARITY

Are organizational capabilities simply the aggregation of individual skills and experience, or do they also depend on particular connections between individuals developed through prior work experience?  Since a capability consists of the accumulated... View Details

  • Web

Hiring Organizations

Bridges Fund Management Brightleaf Holdings Brightline Trains Brookfield Asset Management Brooklyn Museum Bubble Burq Buttonwood Capital C CAKE Calvert Impact Cambridge Associates LLC Cambridge Group, The Cambridge Mobile Telematics... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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