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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the autumn of 2001 to 74 foundation executives, CEOs, and expert observers of philanthropy. View All Related Resources Corporate Philanthropy Corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context--the quality of the business environment in... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

their two daughters in Milton, MA. Glen Meakem (MBA 1991), Meakem Becker Venture Partners Glen T. Meakem is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital, a venture capital firm located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
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Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details

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17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is semi-retired herself. In preliminary... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

limit the productivity of companies or negatively affect their ability to project their capabilities on global markets. Exports in particular sectors give an indication that the location has a particular set of strengths in its... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

this outdoor hub of community life serves as the location for events, socialization, recreation, and reflection. January 2019 HBX Rebranded to HBS Online The School rebranded its online offerings to Harvard Business School Online to raise... View Details

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

definitions. They were applied in his 2003 paper on U.S. regions (Porter, 2003) and in subsequent research papers with other scholars that fundamentally changed the perception of clusters in the U.S. policy community (Delgado, Porter,... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

several years Land and Wheelwright set up operations at various locations in the Boston area where they continued to expand their laboratory and manufacturing facilities to design and build specialized equipment and machines that would... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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L.E. Simmons

The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

of Barton's talented security specialists performs with his jazz ensemble. This leads to a discussion about how to manage real-time collaboration between highly skilled people, and gives readers the chance to consider new ways to think about how to manage IT... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

through the example of rival pizzerias setting price and location Free E-Book Advance Your Career with Essential Business Skills Learn how to contribute to key business discussions and drive strategic decision-making with this free guide.... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

and address some fundamental questions. He’ll also explain how these and other organizations have discovered that experimentation provides considerable competitive advantages. Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't Professor Feng Zhu... View Details

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers. Workspaces have transferred from... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

enterprise has shown that there are fundamental tensions between pursuing scale economies and playing the spreads. (See the table "Conflicting Challenges.") The data indicate that there is some merit to classifying companies... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

rules of the game. In the B Corp movement, we’re working to advance fundamental economic system reform. For example, B Lab UK is pushing for the Better Business Act to make it mandatory for all businesses to advance the benefit of both... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

offered free hotel rooms located near medical facilities to healthcare workers, while Serta Simmons donated 100,000 mattresses to hospitals as they frantically worked to increase the number of ICU beds during a surge in cases. Shift... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

pervasive uncertainty created by COVID-19 in other ways, for example nurturing the relationship with other firms in their networks or establishing new connections that could lead to new learnings. Other firms, and especially businesses View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

a wider sense, Al's legacy was to provide an extraordinary role model for subsequent generations of researchers in business history and far wider. He was so influential because he asked questions that were fundamental and to which people... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

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