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  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

mission—indeed, our imperative—for ninety-four years. Hall: I teach a compensation course, and yet I always begin it with the idea that organizations exist to create value for society. I want to try to center things around the core reason... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

funds. Second, XTV's successes—such as Document Sciences and Documentum—were concentrated in industries closely related to the corporate parent's core line of business (document processing). This suggests that the fund's strong strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

provide robust support for innovative teaching and research. Across the School’s core programs and activities, the resilience and growth we demonstrated this year underlines the value of our contribution to a connected world. As always,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Over the Top

Harvard’s Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching: “As a society, we have bought into a system in which we ask little of corporate leaders beyond the aggressive pursuit of short-term self-interest. For two decades, this model has formed the View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-413 Issues in Non-Profit Governance Non-profit governance at its core is very different from for-profit governance. Certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

brands. Companies can leverage storytelling to build their brands, and careful brand extensions can grow the business as long as they do not alienate core loyalists. Other potentially risky opportunities to weigh carefully are moving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

including superiors, the board, and respected internal opinion leaders; 2) motivates others for change; 3) protects and nurtures the vital role of creative mavericks; 4) signals respect for and actively reinforces crucial core values; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature and a community of scholars, has a narrow and a broad definition. The narrower definition includes researchers such as myself who do primary archival research on the history of business, who belong to the societies, and who publish in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Blog

Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School

director of strategic initiatives. Alicia Thomas, who is on our team as well as the MBA and Doctoral programs team, is the director of diversity and inclusion for the MBA and Doctoral programs and is the direct link to the student experience. Our View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

The Devil You Don’t Know

possibly quite a dangerous one. As I’ve said, traditional deficit spending won’t be nearly sufficient when people are afraid to go out or are legally barred from going out. Again, we can’t really solve the core economic problem without... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

An Environmental Epiphany

the energy technology of the future were largely, early inspirations and dreams 20 years ago. And now, are competitive in increasing parts of the world. And so, what was an entrepreneur's dream or an inventor's dream 20 years ago, is a hard View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

religion, to continue to prosper economically. We must welcome refugees from exactly the regions banned by the executive order to uphold our society's core values. The exclusionary nature of Donald Trump's order echoes some of our... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

find that the classification of software applications within this architecture, as being either Core or Peripheral, is a significant predictor of the costs of architectural change. Using OLS regression models, we show that this measure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

core size of 34%, and architecture flow through of 64%. These findings suggest that the method could be effective in uncovering the hidden structure of an enterprise application architecture. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

reasons why corporate strategies can fail. In its treatment and coverage of these issues, the note emphasizes similarities between the core principles of business unit strategy and of corporate level strategy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2022
  • News

Onboarding

to all the national security agencies, if they want it. We’re a whole different group of business people. And so we help on things that are not in the hard core of national security, but are in things like finance, like HR. JH: Can you... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic adjacencies, and its "farm gate to factory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace