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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

understanding of the attitude needed to manage entrepreneurially - a commitment to continuous improvement, a belief in the importance of creativity and innovation, a belief in the possibility View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • November 2017
  • Case

Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark
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  • 02 Oct 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

attitudes toward these matters may help explain the reasoned responses to this month's questions, responses surprisingly devoid of emotion. Granted, the emphasis View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

and architecture. Still, he wasn’t fully aware of the impact that construction had on climate change before becoming a real estate developer. “Cities are responsible for three fourths View Details
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed," says Fleming. At the same time, the world of inventors "is... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • Web

The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

the need to create and adhere to exact timetables. 6 The resulting “Report on Avoiding Collisions and Governing Employees” called for a system of clearly defined responsibilities and lines View Details
  • 21 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

Sasser's presentation is part of the Faculty Seminar Series sold through Harvard Business School Publishing.One of the companies I've had chance to work with is a large global air carrier. And working for an... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
  • Web

Strategy Programs

  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

problem. If entrepreneurial interests try to skew the response, in the form of an agreement, in one direction or another, it could limit the range of possible responses to be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

    Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

    In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details

    • 09 Sep 2024
    • HBS Case

    McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

    scandal offers important lessons for all companies, the first being: It’s not OK to look the other way when a leader crosses ethical lines. In the wake of #MeToo, a global campaign against sexual abuse and harassment that started in 2017,... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
    • 1995
    • Chapter

    Investment in Pollution Compliance Options: The Case of Georgia Power

    By: F. L. Reinhardt and M. Edleson
    Keywords: Pollutants; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Georgia (state, US)
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    How Wicked Problems Drive Business Performance: A Review of the Academic Literature

    By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
    Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses engaged in the pursuit of “purposeful” activities – that is, activities that engage with the broader community in ways that expand beyond the pursuit of shareholder value. Many of these activities involve... View Details
    Keywords: Wicked Problems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Performance
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    • 2004
    • Class Lecture

    Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses

    By: James Austin
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
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    Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

    not for those primarily interested in corporate social responsibility or in serving the ~10% lowest-income population of the world that is near indigence and for whom market solutions are less relevant.... View Details
    • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Algramo

    By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
    Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
    Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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    • 07 Jan 2002
    • What Do You Think?

    Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

    Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

    By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
    Leaders of organizations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. We review the debates around performance and impact, drawing on three literatures: strategic philanthropy,... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues
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    • Web

    Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    and a serious sober part, responsible too, then looking forward to unknown duties & strange scenes, now those duties are familiar. . . . Then not even a clerk now a merchant & a head man of a firm. Truly I... View Details
    • 17 Nov 2020
    • Blog Post

    Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

    This article was originally published in the November 2020 edition of the Harbus. Life at HBS looks different for every student as the campus is filled with people hailing from an array of countries,... View Details