Rigorous research, rooted in practice
The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on topics that today’s leaders need to understand as they operate in industries and organizations where economic models and operations are being disrupted from every angle.
Bold ideas that become a powerful catalyst for change.
Initiatives
Initiatives are research-fueled "communities of engagement" where faculty, students, and alumni connect with practitioners in the field to develop insights that drive impact. They provide powerful platforms to address complex, multi-dimensional topics that demand a new managerial mindset.
Projects & Institutes
Research Projects allow faculty to pursue topics of inquiry that have the potential to make a substantive difference in the world. They typically result in publications, conferences, and other forms of knowledge dissemination that broaden the impact of their findings.
- Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
- Case Method Project
- Creating Emerging Markets
- Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard
- Foundry
- Impact-Weighted Accounts
- Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness
- Institute for Business in Global Society
- Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard
- Managing the Future of Work
- Private Capital Project
- Public Education Leadership
- U.S. Competitiveness
Insights
Global Research Activities
Our eighteen Global Research Centers & Offices help to build on our legacy of global engagement by supporting our faculty’s international research, administering academic programming in their regions, providing advice to MBA students interested in careers abroad, and developing corporate relationships with potential FIELD Global Immersion partners.
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