Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

2023
Working Paper

Toward a Better Understanding of Open Ecosystems: Implications for Policymakers

By: Feng Zhu and Carmelo Cennamo

The digital realm is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by the emergence of platform business models and the concept of open ecosystems. This paper delves into the intricate nature of ecosystem openness, underscoring the point that the openness of... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business Model; Governance; System; Situation or Environment

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01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil

in Norway but settled in Brazil as a young man, made a gift in his honor to establish the Erling Lorentzen Business and Environment Initiative... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

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Request the Data - Leadership

and acknowledge the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative whenever providing any portion of the information to any other person or organization. Any published use of... View Details

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

the partners worried the high turnover was damaging the firm’s competitive edge, according to research by Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Valerie Morgan

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Presents interviews and conversations with a woman who recently started a publishing house. Primarily concerns her immediate future regarding harvesting options: IPO, sell out, step up to chairman, venture capital, etc. Also deals with the excitement and thrill of... View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Cash; Initial Public Offering; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Publishing Industry

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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA

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

16 Oct 2019
Blog Post

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be themselves, according to a new book co-edited by Anthony J. Mayo, Laura Morgan Roberts, View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

22 Dec 2019
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A town’s pioneering plan to fund retreat from sea rise: have new development pitch in

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For Alumni - Health Care

For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting faculty with research to helping... View Details

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

TOP 10 MBA VOICES BLOGS OF 2022

AT HBS Sustainability is a core value at HBS, and we endeavor to build a healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive community. We know that environmental sustainability is of growing interest to our student... View Details

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PRIMO News Stories - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations PRIMO News Stories 2ms PRIMO 2020: A Summer of Virtual Community and Research PRIMO was launched in 2011 as a representation of one of Dean Nitin Nohria’s Five I’s; an View Details

Profile

Maha Malik

look beyond the business case to the political environment behind the venture, the ecosystems in which my clients operated." This dual perspective led her to the joint MPP/MBA program at the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

16 Sep 2012
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'Green' warrior says doing nothing has a cost, too

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

their ventures. Harvard Life Lab Offering a fully equipped wet lab environment and other resources for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by... View Details

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

prices. And high-end dealerships can make car buying feel like a trip to the spa. But overall, little has changed in the high-pressure business of selling vehicles. So what should the industry be doing to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

14 Jul 2023
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What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

Management, today Manso-Brown is a speaker, educator, and activist artist. Her art and educational workshops challenge and encourage people to have meaningful conversations... View Details