Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler

In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details

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25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

say. Here's the good news: There are reasons why leaders fail to prevent predictable surprises and there are ways to identify trouble while there is still time to stop it. As authors of a new book from Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

From Germany to HBS

about his time in Boston. A few months later, I had a chance to actually visit HBS. Strolling over Baker Lawn on the school’s stunning campus, I was deeply inspired and knew that this was the place I wanted to get my View Details

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Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Leadership

Faculty & Research Faculty & Research November–December 2024 Article Harvard Business Review Scaling Up Transformational Innovations By: Peter Koen, Ananya Sheth, Mike DiPaola and Linda A. Hill For large... View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

to take the best ideas from the US fast-food model and adapt them to serve the needs of the Chinese consumer." Initially this involved hiring the right people. For Su this meant Chinese managers who... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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California - Global

dynamics in the global supply chain. August 2024 Case Zipline: Expanding the World's Largest Autonomous Drone Delivery Network By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez Zipline initially established the world's... View Details

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Alumni - Global

Foundation Professor of Management Practice Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice, Retired); Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration); Jeffrey F. Rayport (Senior Lecturer of View Details

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

are allocated to respond. The dilemma: Create a response that is neither overreaction (threat) nor insufficient (opportunity). In this excerpt from their Harvard Business Review article, Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

14 Nov 2017
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Students help groups to pursue climate action

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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram... View Details

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

business phenomenon. And any links between the two—has academic inquiry affected practice, or have evolving practices influenced study of the field? Perhaps the best place to start is with your own view of... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

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A Commitment to Sustainability | About

at Harvard and beyond. HBS promotes sustainability across our community with support from Operations, the Student Sustainability Associates program, the Business & Environment... View Details

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

Research Services Case Research & Writing Group 1ms Established in November 1999, the Case Research & Writing Group (CRG) grew out of Harvard Business School’s commitment to increase the diversity, impact, View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role of investors in this new paradigm. View Details

27 Sep 2021
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Working to Change the Food System

combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing... View Details

18 May 2022
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