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  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

for-profit companies that have met "rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency." At present, there are only 1,281 B corps in the world, spread across 41 countries and 121... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series

leadership experience in their respective industries. Most are founders or the current leaders of family businesses, and their enterprises, whether for-profit or non-profit, are pre-eminent companies in their country, region and in some... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

annual meeting. We find evidence suggesting that ESO expensing shareholder proposals affected accounting and compensation choices. With respect to accounting choices, we find that: (i) targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

run as a public utility. The Panamanian government, in contrast, has run the Canal as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Maurer and Yu's nuanced analysis of the contribution of the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January–February 2013
  • Article

Golfing Alone? Corporations, Elites and Nonprofit Growth in 100 American Communities

By: Christopher Marquis, Gerald F. Davis and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two sub-populations... View Details
Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Business Growth and Maturation; Profit; Local Range; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business Processes; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trends; Management Practices and Processes; United States
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  • March 2016
  • Case

IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
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  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices exhibited by manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

enhance the emotional payoff of charitable initiatives. 2013 pub Learning by Supplying By: Alcácer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley Abstract—Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

forthcoming Stanford University Press Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma By: O'Reilly, Charles A., and Michael Tushman Abstract—In the past few years, a number of well-known firms have failed—think of Blockbuster,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

business environment or used along with any individual case. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308063 Corrections Corp. of America Harvard Business School Case 107-071 This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2000
  • Background Note

Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Service Operations; For-Profit Firms; Power and Influence; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

some of the most prominent law firms. Through Boston Lawyers Group, she identified potential firms and legal internships to get exposure to the sector and pressure test her interests. Yet, as she explored undergraduate courses and majors,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

dearly for the intangible aspects of the product, which the firm works very hard to keep integrated with the physical product. Deals with a range of issues confronting creative economy companies, such as how to produce products with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

skills that are embedded in the workforce, competitors, suppliers, customers, cooperative R&D ventures, and universities and often support multiple industrial sectors. Although industrial commons are largely supported by private View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

service settings, while developing a foundation for the exploration of mobile money by OM scholars. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2549171   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 813-113 Edison Schools, Inc. Edison Schools, Inc., a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

and contribute to an organization’s agility in a fast-moving competitive landscape. It also can build cohesion among employees and provide them a shared sense of mission. Vineet Nayar, former CEO of India-based HCL Technologies, is a firm... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

firm can capture from innovation. Building on a number of case studies, this paper presents a simple framework for categorizing different collaborative modes. The framework is based on the notion that there are two critical dimensions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace