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- November 2023
- Case
Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero
By: Peter Tufano, Brian Trelstad and Matteo Gasparini
The board of Aviva Plc, one of the world’s largest insurers, must review its climate risk exposures and evaluate next steps. Risk experts at the firm have conducted a robust set of analyses prepared for its regulator, the Bank of England, simulating how various climate...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Europe;
United Kingdom
- 2023
- Working Paper
Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries
By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
Government R&D programs have a long history in supporting industry development, yet their impacts are often overlooked in strategy research. We examine how a large, coordinated, government-funded effort to develop radar in World War II spawned a new high-tech industry....
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Keywords:
Research and Development;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Technological Innovation;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Gross, Daniel P., and Maria P. Roche. "Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-027, April 2023.
- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Systems Thinking;
Medical Model;
Organizations;
Behavior;
System;
History
- October 2023
- Case
JPMorgan Chase in Paris
By: Joseph L. Bower, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Michael Norris
In 2019, Daniel Pinto, President and COO of JPMorgan Chase, has to make a recommendation to the bank’s Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, about where to physically locate the bank’s European trading operations after Brexit takes effect in 2020. The decision-making process...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Markets;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Banking Industry;
Europe;
European Union;
France;
United Kingdom
Bower, Joseph L., Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi, and Michael Norris. "JPMorgan Chase in Paris." Harvard Business School Case 724-001, October 2023.
- October 2023
- Case
Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
For more than fifteen years, successful Canadian entrepreneur and investor Kevin O’Leary had developed his brand into a global powerhouse. Since his first appearance on the Canadian television program Dragons’ Den in 2006 and his meteoric rise to stardom through the...
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Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Kevin O'Leary: Building a Brand in Shark-infested Waters." Harvard Business School Case 824-095, October 2023.
- 2023
- Book
Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Performance Improvement;
Problems and Challenges;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems. Harvard Business Review Press, 2023.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021
By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons
We ask how childhood environment shapes political behavior. We measure young voters’ participation and party affiliation in nationally comprehensive voter files and reconstruct their childhood location histories based on their parents’ addresses. We compare outcomes of...
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Brown, Jacob R., Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen, and Vincent Pons. "The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31759, October 2023.
- 2023
- Book
Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments
This book presents a new, powerful, and practical way of making final decisions on the hard, complex, uncertain problems of life and work. What if you have looked at the data, talked with trusted colleagues, and applied all the relevant managerial and ethical...
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Badaracco, Joseph L. Your True Moral Compass: Defining Reality, Responsibility, and Practicality in Your Leadership Moments. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2023.
- September 2023
- Technical Note
Free and Open Source Software and Hardware
By: Frank Nagle
This technical note surveys the concepts of free and open source software and hardware. It introduces the concepts in general, providing a brief history of their development and numerous examples of how companies employ them in practice. Further, it identifies various...
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- September 25, 2023
- Book Review
Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Book Review of 'The Two-Parent Privilege' by Melissa S. Kearney
By: Michael Luca
In 2019, 57% of U.S. children lived with two parents, down from 80% in 1980. Is the rise of single-parent households an emblem of empowerment or a sign of dwindling support for children? This article reviews a new book on the topic, discussing the decline and impact of...
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Luca, Michael. "Where Have All the Good Men Gone? Book Review of 'The Two-Parent Privilege' by Melissa S. Kearney." Wall Street Journal (September 25, 2023), A.17.
- September 2023
- Case
Helmy Abouleish: Making a Desert Bloom
By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Maxim Pike Harrell
This case examines the history of prominent Egyptian-based social enterprise SEKEM from its foundation in 1977 until the COP27 conference held in Sharm El-Sheikh in 2022. Led by father and son team Ibrahim and Helmy Abouleish, SEKEM turned desert into farmland using...
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- Summer 2023
- Article
(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly
By: Anne Ruderman and Marlous van Waijenburg
The revocation of the Royal African Company's monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC’s exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company’s response to the loss of its...
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Keywords:
Slavery;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business History;
Monopoly;
History;
Business and Government Relations
Ruderman, Anne, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "(Un)principled Agents: Monitoring Loyalty after the End of the Royal African Company Monopoly." Special Issue on Business, Capitalism, and Slavery edited by Marlous van Waijenburg and Anne Ruderman. Business History Review 97, no. 2 (Summer 2023): 247–281.
- 2023
- Working Paper
LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since...
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Keywords:
Soccer;
"Sports Organizations,;
Business History;
Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Technology Adoption;
Sports Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., Kenneth Cortsen, and Juan Fuentes Fernández. "LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-009, August 2023.
- August 2023 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023
Chile, often considered among Latin America´s greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As...
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Keywords:
Government Administration;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Social Issues;
Wealth and Poverty;
Public Opinion;
Public Administration Industry;
Chile;
Latin America;
South America
Spar, Debora, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Ruth Costas. "Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023." Harvard Business School Case 324-005, August 2023. (Revised October 2023.)
- 2023
- Other Unpublished Work
Visions of Vision Pro
Daily ups and downs of the market are often driven by changes in interest-rate expectations and investor risk aversion. But over the long run, it's often technological change that is the primary driver of value. A decade ago, Tyler Cowen argued in his book The Great...
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Cohen, Randolph B. "Visions of Vision Pro." August 2023. (LinkedIn Articles.)
- August 2023
- Article
What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Historical research on the race between education and technology has focused on the West but barely touched upon ‘the rest’. A new occupational wage database for 50 African and Asian economies allows us to compare long-run patterns in skill premiums across the colonial...
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Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "What About the Race Between Technology and Education in the Global South? Comparing Skill-premiums in Colonial Africa and Asia." Economic History Review 76, no. 3 (August 2023): 941–978.
- July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Background Note
Generative AI Value Chain
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content (e.g., text, image, or audio) in response to a prompt from a user. ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude are examples of text generating AIs, and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are...
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Keywords:
AI;
Artificial Intelligence;
Model;
Hardware;
Data Centers;
AI and Machine Learning;
Applications and Software;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value
Wu, Andy, and Matt Higgins. "Generative AI Value Chain." Harvard Business School Background Note 724-355, July 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- 2023
- Book
Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World
By: Mattias Fibiger
After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a...
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Keywords:
Indonesia;
Cold War;
Political Economy;
Foreign Aid;
International Investment;
International Relations;
International Finance;
History;
War;
Economic Systems;
Government and Politics;
Indonesia;
Southeast Asia
Fibiger, Mattias. Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- July 2023
- Article
Deep Responsibility and Irresponsibility in the Beauty Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones
This article employs the concept of deep responsibility to assess the social responsibility of the beauty industry over time. It shows that many of today’s problems with the industry have deep historical roots. Products have too many ingredients that are potential...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Jones, Geoffrey. "Deep Responsibility and Irresponsibility in the Beauty Industry." Entreprises et histoire 111, no. 2 (July 2023): 113–125.
- June 2023
- Case
Doing Business in Lima, Peru
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Max Hancock
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Peru. It highlights Peru's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2023 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles...
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Keywords:
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Strategy;
Mining Industry;
Peru;
Latin America
Polzer, Jeffrey T., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Max Hancock. "Doing Business in Lima, Peru." Harvard Business School Case 323-050, June 2023.