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  • May 2021
  • Teaching Note

Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice
By: Francesca Gino, Frances X. Frei and Youngme Moon
In this multimedia case, Megan Ming Francis, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW) and a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the roots of racial injustice and the need for change. Through...  View Details
Keywords: Racial Injustice; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership
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  • October 2020 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter
By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of...  View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
  • Case

Fossil Fuel Divestment
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick
The president of Harvard University is facing growing pressure from students, alumni, and other climate change activists that are urging the university to divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies. The case summarizes the arguments for and...  View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; Higher Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Public Opinion; Ethics; Education Industry
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  • 2020
  • Book

Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire
By: Thomas J. DeLong
The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes...  View Details
Keywords: Teaching; Leadership; Attitudes; Management; Business Education
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  • 2016
  • Chapter

Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the field experimental research program carried...  View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research; Knowledge; Innovation and Invention
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  • December 2014
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice
Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an...  View Details
Keywords: MetroMorphosis; Raymond Jetson; Advanced Leadership Initiative; ALI; Louisiana; Baton Rouge; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Louisiana; North America; United States
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  • 2014
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Daniel Penrice
Raymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an...  View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Problems and Challenges; Leadership; Louisiana; Baton Rouge
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  • September 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

edX: Strategies for Higher Education
By: David Collis, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
In May 2012, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made...  View Details
Keywords: MOOCS; edX; Online Platforms; Online Education; Harvard University; MIT; Execution; Monetization; Brand Management; Higher Education; Technology; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Education Industry
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  • July 2014
  • Article

Making Boston Stronger
By: Dutch Leonard, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole and Philip B. Heymann
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a team from Harvard University carried out extensive interviews with participants to identify strengths and weaknesses in the incident response to the terror attack. This abridged version of their final report focuses...  View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Preparedness; Crisis Management; Cooperation; Boston
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  • 11 Mar 2014
  • Interview

The Looming Challenges of US Competitiveness: Implications for Philadelphia
By: Michael E. Porter
The third installment of the Fox School's Innovation Leadership Speaker Series featured Professor Michael E. Porter, William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School. Dr. Porter addressed the factors driving innovation and competitiveness in a given...  View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Economic Analysis; Economics; Philadelphia
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  • June 2013 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Harvard University Defined Contribution Pension Plan in 2013: Looking Ahead
By: Luis M. Viceira, Jordan Chapman and John Souther
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  • Article

Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
By: Eva C. Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation process. By most measures, the more than 20,000 faculty, research staff and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical...  View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Boston
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  • 2013
  • Book

Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain
By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons
From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the...  View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Political Elections; United States; Europe
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  • 1 Mar 2012
  • Talk

German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School assesses the German health care system and offers suggestions for reforming to a value-based system, where rewards flow to those practices performing best. Introduced by Karl Lauterbach, professor of health economics and...  View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Germany
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  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

International Air Transport Association Vision 2050
By: Michael E. Porter
IATA asked 35 strategic thinkers to develop this vision for the next 40 years for the airline industry. The group benefited greatly by the inspirational and strategic leadership and wisdom of Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew. And Harvard University Professor...  View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Singapore
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  • 5 Jan 2011
  • Other Presentation

Rethinking Capitalism
By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter, Harvard University professor, explains why business leaders must focus on shared value—creating products and services that benefit not only the company but also society. He is the coauthor of the HBR article Creating Shared Value.  View Details
Keywords: Society; Strategy; United States
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  • 2 Jun 2010
  • Keynote Speech

Creating Shared Value
By: Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School spoke to an audience of senior corporate giving professionals at CECP's Corporate Philanthropy Summit on June 2, 2010 about the role of business in social and economic development....  View Details
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Society; United States
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice
By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria
More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of...  View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory
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  • September – October 2009
  • Article

U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting
By: Max Bazerman
Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy...  View Details
Keywords: Policy; Climate Change; Energy Sources; Government and Politics; Cognition and Thinking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Non-Renewable Energy; Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; United States
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  • February 2009
  • Teaching Note

Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University (TN)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Teaching Note for [808073].  View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Research; Rights; Pharmaceutical Industry
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