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- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317128-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-032 Climate Change in 2017: Implications for Business This note provides general information about climate change...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
"innovation is everyone's job." Dozens of faculty at Harvard Business School are focused on the subject of managing innovation. Some look at it by examining processes while others view through the lens of history. For example, Clay...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of...
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- January 2021
- Case
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ...
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Business Ventures;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cash Flow;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Service Industry;
United States;
California
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel Fisher. "Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling." Harvard Business School Case 721-419, January 2021.
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
South Asia Institute and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying and writing about India’s space program for many years and is part of a space research working group led Professor Matt Weinzierl at the...
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- 28 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
What's a Boss Worth?
them look better. But how much of an effect does a good or bad boss have on workers, really? Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Christopher Stanton sets out to ask that question in The Value of Bosses, a paper recently published...
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- February 2001
- Case
PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One ... The Power of Many (A)
By: James L. Heskett
The management of PlanetFeedback in proposes a merger with Intelliseek. Their goal is to create a comprehensive C2B and B2B business focused on the generation and analysis for business clients of consumer feedback data via the Internet, Planet Feedback's board of...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Decisions;
Information Management;
Analytics and Data Science;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology Industry
Heskett, James L. "PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One ... The Power of Many (A)." Harvard Business School Case 901-051, February 2001.
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Wadhwani Q: The Newcomen Fellow is expected to participate in the school's business history courses, seminars, and case development activities. Can you tell us about your teaching experience here at HBS? I imagine that your previous...
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- March 2016 (Revised April 2019)
- Technical Note
ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?
By: George Serafeim
In the past twenty-five years, the world had seen an exponential growth in the number of companies reporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. Investor interest in ESG data also grew rapidly. A growing belief that increasing levels of social inequality...
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Capitalism;
Sustainability;
Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Responsibilities To Society;
Environment;
Social Impact Investment;
ESG;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Measurement and Metrics;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Corporate Accountability;
Accounting;
Economic Systems
Serafeim, George, and Jody Grewal. "ESG Metrics: Reshaping Capitalism?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 116-037, March 2016. (Revised April 2019.)
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
be strongly immersed in quantitative training and have a disciplinary orientation. The social science disciplines in particular were economics, sociology, and psychology. Quantitative reasoning eventually took precedence. Q: What choices...
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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
decision making. These barriers are: Do no harm. Their gain is our loss. Competition is always good. Support our group. Live for the moment. No pain for us, no gain for them. The antidote? An approach used in the business schools, whereby...
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- August 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Patagonia
Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry. Patagonia's founder and executives welcomed imitation of both its environmental commitment and its...
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Business History;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Hyunjin Kim, and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Patagonia." Harvard Business School Case 711-020, August 2010. (Revised October 2010.)
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
suggests new research based on an international competition to design a NASA robot. "When experts have a been-there-done-that mindset, potential breakthroughs may hit the discard pile before companies can evaluate them in full." Harvard View Details
- January 2022
- Case
Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen
By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar
In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and...
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Keywords:
Green Hydrogen;
Energy;
Climate Change;
Supply Chain;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Green Technology;
Projects;
Alliances;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Energy Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Middle East;
North Africa
Yao, Dennis, and Alpana Thapar. "Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen." Harvard Business School Case 722-381, January 2022.
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime Harvard Business School professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been...
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by Dan Morrell
- June 2, 2013
- Article
Corporate Sustainability Is Not Sustainable
By: Auden Schendler and Michael W. Toffel
Despite perceptions that sustainable business efforts are progressing, the environment reminds us we're failing to deal with the problem sufficiently. Here's what business leaders must do next.
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Schendler, Auden, and Michael W. Toffel. "Corporate Sustainability Is Not Sustainable." Grist (June 2, 2013). (Republished by Climate Progress and as "Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change" in HBS Working Knowledge.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
What does cyberspace mean for physical retail space? Has online shopping changed the fundamentals of retailing? How should managers evaluate new in-store technologies? Harvard Business Review posed these questions to three retail...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
By: Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions that matter most for the particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be...
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Entrepreneurship;
Patents;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Science-Based Business;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Biotechnology Industry
Azoulay, Pierre, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart. "Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-136, May 2009.
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne