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  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

supporting aren't going to put their marginal dollars to good use, you can take them back.” Relative to donors, impact investors may also push Husk Power to grow its business and increase profitability. For example, if Husk Power were to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits the exchange of anything of value that rewards or generates business reimbursable by federal health care programs. While the law prohibits drugmakers from directly covering... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

Family I want to add my favorite comment to the list. In the story above, a younger generation family member is struggling with the patriarch to take over the family business—a Vietnamese restaurant in Massachusetts. In a comment, reader... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

Territorial Competitiveness What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

heterogeneity is both generative and occasionally confusing. We identify three distinct areas of research that provide insight into how teams learn to stimulate cross-area discussion and future research. We find that scholars have made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 1997
  • Case

Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A) (Abridged)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.
A large, lucrative power plant is negotiated for construction/operation by an American power company in India's evolving privatized power sector. The process of incorporating the project is captured in this case. The American company will own and operate the plant in... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Transition; Energy Generation; Construction; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Negotiation Process; Production; Privatization; Energy Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education Harvard Business School Note 307-068 Surveys educational outcomes among public school students in the United States. Educational outcomes are categorized as achievement outcomes (measured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

parent's strategic focus." The Xerox Corporation originated as a photography-paper business called the Haloid Company. 3 The Haloid Company's entrance into what would later become its principal business... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

company’s products, employee commuting, and business travel. Scope 3 also includes emissions generated by the company’s products. Lifecycle assessment: Companies can often calculate their Scope 1 and 2... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 21 May 2018
  • HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

taseffski When Stefan Thomke finished writing the Harvard Business School case study on A. Lange & Söhne, he sent it to the German watchmaker for feedback. The company’s response was a first for the 25-year Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
  • August 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power

By: Brian Trelstad, Isa Oliveres and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
In 2022, Manuel Wiechers, the CEO of Iluméxico, a for-profit social enterprise that provided off-grid solar energy services in rural Mexico, was finalizing his presentation for the company’s upcoming board meeting. In the 12 years since Wiechers had co-founded... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Business and Government Relations; Equity; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Energy Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

cleaning solvent formula. However, before deciding to deploy these critical assets in a particular country, multinational executives have a key issue to explore: Does the country where I'm transferring technology have intellectual property rights in place that can... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 21 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

evidence, is their ability to deliver on the brand promise, once elected. So, no matter how many voters are turned off, no matter how much ammunition they provide the Republicans in the general election, negative ads will rule the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

impact. However, although this practice is generally lauded as a win-win for business and the environment, the firm may actually increase emissions if it acts to maximize profit because it would increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608068 Don Jenkins: Between Opportunities Harvard Business School Case 408-094 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

of high growth, such that an entire generation of partners has never experienced a downturn. “While there was once an acceptance that consulting yielded moderate financial returns vs. other investment professionals, many now enter the... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

multiple). Main focus is to assess this as an entrepreneurial venture. Students do not need to be familiar with REITs. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810102-PDF-ENG Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

of things to test—in scientific terms, the generation of hypotheses—is a fundamentally creative act. In many business situations, the hypothesis, problem, or opportunity is not well-defined, nor does it... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

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