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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners. “Government can help smaller innovators by pushing utilities to adopt new technologies,” he added. But Prend favors government carrots, not sticks. The other panelists — Jim Matheson (MBA ’01), general partner at Flagship... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
organisms in its ice cream. There's also the booming "sharing economy," which is built around the concept of monetizing shared resources, thus cutting down on carbon consumption and other environmental manufacturing costs. Henderson cites the car-sharing View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Debaters Muzzle Yale Bulldog
In November, in the friendly confines of Spangler Auditorium, the HBS debate team talked circles around a visiting contingent from the Yale School of Management and won a 2–1 decision. As reported by the Harbus, the motion up for debate was, “This House believes that... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Kenya
concepts such as strategy, business models, new product or service development, retail trends, etc. CultureGrams: Republic of Kenya Useful for: Country profile with focus on culture and customs View Details
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
in a simulated climb of Mt. Everest,” she says. “It was a great way to start the year, to begin thinking about how we want to develop as leaders.” In FIELD 2, Lindsay and her team helped an Indian retailer, Nalli Silk Sarees, develop a new View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the speed and quality of reform through improved leadership capacity. Indeed, this network of attendees has played a critical role in advocating for reform at both the state and national levels. Building on that success, this year the club has opened the program to the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2013
- News
Bloomberg's Washington footprint explodes
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... and joins the ranks of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Harvard & HBS IT Policies | Information Technology
These protections may be governed by legal, contractual, or University policy considerations. Everyone at Harvard has a responsibility for proper handling and protection of confidential information. These policies apply to the entire... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services as well as information that assesses the relative value delivered by providers. Because the United States has competition in health care, we would expect to see improving value, but we see just the opposite. Value-based... View Details
- Web
Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight in its ability to recognize the potential of emerging industries, from View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
475baf4874c54b74d6872cb82ffdcb34 Amid the backdrop of U.S.-Chinese relations — tension over trade issues and Taiwan’s independence on the one hand, cooperation on terrorism and North Korea on the other — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke at HBS during a four-day trip to... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
implications for our community of this new order. We ask for your patience as we respond to a fluid and rapidly evolving situation. We know Harvard's International Office has reached out to international students and scholars, and Harvard's Global Support View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
the shelf, and that doesn’t do anybody any good.” One of EDC’s current projects is a collaboration with U.S. VETS, a nonprofit provider of services to veterans. Women vets are six times more likely to die by suicide than women who are not... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry
By: Dennis Campbell
Many companies operate units which are dispersed across different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Customer Focus and Relationships; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Retail Industry
Campbell, Dennis. "Organizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-091, April 2008.