Creating Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

'Rooted' In Innovation

in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. This creates an obvious market for clean-tech companies, which often focus on greenhouse gas emissions. But now voters are considering Proposition 23, an upcoming ballot... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

these new practices actually alter company behavior, or create social value? How is and how should social value be defined and measured? In public markets, we evaluate the costs and benefits of negative screens, ESG integration, and... View Details

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

portions of its profits in the business—through research and development, market expansion, capital expenditures, and most importantly (and often forgotten) development of talented people and leaders. This virtuous circle View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

24 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 24

excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Otto H. Falk

As head of Allis-Chalmers, Falk introduced a product line of earth-moving and other heavy machinery, including tractors, which used the internal combustion engine. Falk was hugely successful in leading Allis-Chalmers into the competitive View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality and wage competition in a context of ruthless international rivalry.... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

learn more about HBS Clubs and club activities in your area, please visit www.clubhub.hbs.org/. In October, Alvin Roth, a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit and Harvard University's Department of... View Details

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

hours available to maximize ad revenue—the shift to popular content crowds out niche shows. (The researchers did not study the effects on viewing habits created by digital video recorders and on-demand programming.) Online, there are no... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details

Daniel F. Gerber

Gerber created the baby foods market as well as the company’s advertising campaign - the “Gerber Baby,” a symbol that became world-famous. By 1973, Gerber was the world’s largest supplier of baby foods with... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Financial databases: certification and training | Baker Library

Fundamentals, Bloomberg Market Concepts and Environmental Social Governance (ESG). Open to all current Harvard faculty, students, and staff. Please email infoservices@hbs.edu for the class code to waive fee. Then, sign up for your account... View Details

08 May 2019
Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both.... View Details

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

an independent project. See form below. January Students return to campus; those interested in an independent project will approach a faculty advisor and will contact the organization directly. Late-April Term Ends. Project delivered to organization. View Details

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

scientific-driven process. So corporations made enormous investments to create ivory towers where scientists would think great thoughts. At first it seemed very appealing, but as the fifties moved into the sixties and the sixties moved... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2021
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