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  • October 1998 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

Newman's Own, Inc.

By: James E. Austin
Describes the creation and evolution of this food marketing corporation. All its after-tax profits are donated to charity by Paul Newman, the distinguished actor and social entrepreneur. The company has grown into a $100 million enterprise and donated cumulatively $89... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Advantage; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

theory" as advanced in the classic by Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch, Organization and Environment. This extraordinarily rich heritage has exercised an impact around the world and continues to inform the... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
  • Case

Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman and Sarah McAra
This case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Health And Wellness; Nutrition; Health; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland; Europe; Africa; Latin America; North America; Asia
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  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

average winds, Cape Wind will provide three quarters of the Cape's and Islands' electricity needs." As the case details, however, before Cape Wind could realize its ambitions it first had to weather multiple regulatory, legal, and public relations hurdles, including... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • News

Think Outside the Building

  • 13 Jun 2019
  • News

Making Sense of Ads

  • 01 May 2022
  • News

Off the Shelf

  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

the turnaround of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston. Paul Levy, who became CEO in early 2002, managed to bring the failing hospital back from the brink of ruin. We had ringside seats during the first six months of the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay on the opportunities... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
  • 26 Jun 2015
  • News

A firm's approach to corruption depends on the individual running it

  • August 1992 (Revised September 2002)
  • Case

Star Distributors, Inc. (A)

By: David A. Thomas
Depicts the conflict and organizational problems that emerged in a franchise operation owned by Paul Logan, an African American, and John Heyman, a white American. Provides the opportunity to examine the ways in which race influences managerial behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Performance Effectiveness; Franchise Ownership; Race; Management Style; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • News

Harvard professor calls trade deal watershed, says economy lags

  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

from the case is that a really ugly process can produce great results sometimes. My coauthor in a lot of my work is Lee Devin, a theater professor and theater professional. Of course, theater people have their own ensemble processes. Lee is a little put off View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 04 Apr 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by Dorothy Leonard and Walter... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Dec 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Feb 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett