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- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Poets & Quants' Top-Ranked Startup: Wildfire
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
those questions to refugees, many said they simply wanted something to do with their hands. While aid organizations provide food and some basic supplies, the Rohingya lack permits to work outside the camps. Educational opportunities have also been scarce, lest they... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
distinct means of communication and distribution to a mass audience. Trade catalogs, for example, became an integral way of merchandising new industrial products created from the enormous factory output and market demands of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
2010 Leadership Fellows
Eleven graduating MBAs have taken positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations with the support of the School’s Leadership Fellows Program. The program awards key management positions for one year at competitive salaries. This year’s fellows are (front row)... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
returns based on innovation and intellectual property. It's more than the Internet, more than Silicon Valley. At the moment, we're in a full-fledged tech recession in the United States, with scary implications for the global economy.... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling the needs of your target market. It’s... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
received much higher market penetration. In our large sample study, sites that separate their online organizations from the newspaper were more than twice as innovative than sites that remained integrated into the newspaper. More... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all organizational View Details
Marty Blue
2019 Marty was engaged as an SVP of Business Development at CarGurus. CarGurus is the largest Automotive Digital Marketplace in the United States based on unique monthly visitors. At CarGurus she was an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
change through the development of new materials and a different approach to teaching; it’s also transformed many institutions through the integration of entrepreneurship into the curriculum,” adds Karen Wilson (MBA ’91), a foundation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
effects on the differentiation and integration needed to achieve the organization’s optimum structure. “If you look at modern-day issues, these foundational ideas have a tremendous longevity that is very powerful,” Gulati notes.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recruiters, found current hiring practices to be haphazard at best and inept at worst. And no wonder. Ignorant of their staffing needs, most companies treat hiring top-level executives as an emergency. That leaves them little choice. One... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
more conservative companies and aggressive, born-digital dot-coms, highlighting best practices from e-culture pacesetters as well as cautionary lessons from Internet laggards. The book defines the skills that leaders need to master change... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience
By: Kellie McElhaney, Michael W. Toffel and Natalie Hill
This case study describes how an industrial design company developed a sustainability management system (SMS) standard, designed and implemented an SMS throughout its business, and then became the first company in the world to achieve third-party SMS certification by a... View Details
Keywords: Design; Governance Compliance; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; United States
McElhaney, Kellie, Michael W. Toffel, and Natalie Hill. "Designing Sustainability at BMW Group: The Designworks/USA Experience." Greener Management International: The Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and Practice 46 (Summer 2004): 103–116.
Jon Staff
Jon Staff is the founder and CEO of Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities across the United States. Getaway grew from Jon’s lifelong appreciation for the great outdoors, having... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
2005, China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO) announced it would join the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). At that time, COSCO initiated sustainability reporting practices in line with the UNGC,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Stevenson Professor of Business Administration Joseph B. Lassiter , Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management Meredith L. McPherron , Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship William A.... View Details