Presidential Innovation Fellows - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling Harvard Business School Case 808-087 Montague has developed a major innovation that creates a new sub-category in the bicycle industry: a full-sized, high-quality bicycle that folds.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

a wide range of responses. We were featured in the New York Times Magazine's annual "Year of Ideas" issue and in The Economist. These discussions, as well as most of the reaction we've received from fellow economists, have been... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

by rigid state licensure requirements, will be able to practice telemedicine for all patients in their regions. Replacing fee-for-service payments with value-based ones will remove the final barrier to delivering such integrated care. Robert S. Kaplan is the Senior... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

likely to say no armed group in the conflict represents them—opposite to what is expected when civilians are captive in the conflict zone and must choose sides for their protection. Respondents also show heightened volunteership towards View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Aprendiz, before creating and developing Catraca Livre (meaning "open turnstile" in Portuguese) while he was an Advanced Leadership fellow at Harvard. Dimenstein pursued his idea of "learning neighborhoods," which... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

"The core idea — an innovation in entrepreneurial finance—is to make prominent the role of people in making decisions." Thus an early reading for the "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, on the nature of financial... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) to her fellow board members and company management. The case explores interpersonal communications, influencing one's peers, leadership style, and board dynamics. The case also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academics are uniquely suited to play, says Karen Mills, former administrator of the US Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS. “When I went to Washington, I saw a tremendous need for fact-based analysis to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

importance of an informed and rigorous historical understanding for practitioners. He visited my office later to say that he felt Chilean policymakers and business leaders lacked such an understanding, and he would like to do something about it. Coincidently, our... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

research is widely confirmed throughout the essays of the Handbook. Chandler was primarily concerned with understanding the growth of large, diversified, and professionally managed firms from the late 19th century. The growth of big business, and its role in generating... View Details