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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
its mediocre performance. RPA was a... One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings By: Timothy Flacke and Peter Tufano May 14, 2024 | Harvard Business Review (website) Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a...
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- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could...
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- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
ways of staying true to their mission. Most businesses have spent time establishing their mission, vision, and values, but few people can succinctly verbalize them on a personal level. When conducting interviews with graduate students,...
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by Kristen Senz
- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
ratings have been shown not to be correct?’” The results suggest that the answer is yes, especially given improvements since the financial crisis, Sikochi says. The motivation to avoid high-profile failures has given way to signs that...
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by Ben Rand
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
to differences between men and women. Managers should be aware of these differences in behaviors, perspectives, and goals, rather than assuming everyone navigates the workplace in the same way or wants the same thing out of their career,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807023 PublicationsTime-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School Press,...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2021
- Op-Ed
Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge
the Day, Harrison, and Halpin’s view of leader development, which argues that improving leaders’ knowledge, skill, and attitudes will increase their capacity. The pyramid shaped MSK Framework takes these principles a step further, offering organizations a View Details
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by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
- September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris
In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in...
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Business Model;
Green Technology;
Goods and Commodities;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Science-Based Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Business Startups;
Decisions;
Technological Innovation;
Production;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Technology Industry;
Boston;
Sao Paulo
Serafeim, George, and Michael Norris. "Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab." Harvard Business School Case 124-017, September 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
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Joy Chen
As a very young child, Joy Chen lived with her parents in the small corner of a chemistry lab building where the roof often collapsed when it rained. Determined to do better, she forced her way into the provincial office of education and...
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Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States Filters Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
inside The future of the restaurant industry is especially of concern to us. We collectively share 35 years of restaurant and food industry experience, navigating our way through as waitstaff and bartenders, as managers and senior leaders...
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- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
more critical than ever for Big Pharma to adopt it more broadly. He says the pandemic elevated urgency by: Exposing new risks and opportunities with Big Pharma’s current models. Driving global use of video-conferencing technology, which created a sustainable View Details
- October 2016
- Supplement
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In December 2014, Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read,...
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Innovation;
Sharing Economy;
Amsterdam;
Airbnb;
Molly Turner;
Regulation;
Homesharing;
Tourism;
Business And Government;
Public-private Partnership;
Business and Government Relations;
Government Administration;
Public Sector;
City;
Urban Development;
Tourism Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Travel Industry;
Netherlands;
Europe
Weiss, Mitchell, Emer Moloney, and Vincent Dessain. "Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-014, October 2016.
- January 2017 (Revised June 2017)
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Chicago and the Array of Things: A Fitness Tracker for the City
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
The city of Chicago has recently launched a project called the Array of Things. The program involves a series of sensor nodes placed around the city that capture a massive amount of data including pedestrian and vehicle flow, air quality, and cloud cover. The Array of...
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Smart Connected Products;
Smart Cities;
Internet Of Things;
Sensors;
Govenment;
Government Administration;
Technological Innovation;
Digital Platforms;
Applications and Software;
Information Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Public Administration Industry;
Technology Industry;
Chicago;
United States
- October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Google Advertising
By: Youngme E. Moon and David Chen
In mid-2006, Google is the number one search engine in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American...
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Digital Marketing;
Disruptive Innovation;
Media;
Expansion;
Internet and the Web;
Advertising Industry;
United States
Moon, Youngme E., and David Chen. "Google Advertising." Harvard Business School Case 507-038, October 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
institutions and the ultra-affluent. However, the fortunes of startups and struggling mature firms can depend on private funds, making the study’s results particularly influential to wealth distribution in the United States. “There is a...
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- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
Discrimination in Customer Service with Foregrounding Interventions.” White customers receive preferential treatment In one of three studies conducted between 2016 and 2020, Feldberg and Kim contacted concierges in nearly 6,000 hotels across the View Details
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by Pamela Reynolds
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Economic Association (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 11, 2023.) With Alfaro, Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive care View Details
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Martha Lagace