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28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

keeping your supply chain costs as low as possible. First, however, a little background on the nature of risk and how companies seek to deal with it. The Nature Of Risk Risks lurk along the entire length of... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular medicine revolution-based on advances... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

is far cheaper, better informed, and more trustworthy than outreach from a representative less attached to the company. Pay attention to, develop, and reward internal expertise. Such talent will naturally begin to surface as a result of... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

male-female differences in preferences, expectations, and behaviors—will influence negotiation behavior and outcomes. By contrast, in situations with low ambiguity, where negotiators understand the range of possible payoffs and agree on standards for View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

tense, it will pay off,” Whillans says. Many people also waste too much time trying to find the cheapest prices, whether by driving out of the way for the least-expensive gas or schlepping to multiple stores for slightly lower prices. In... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

concerned investors, activists, and customers. The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large publicly-listed companies in Europe to annually disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, starting in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

scale up the business until they have product market fit [PMF], a magical event—more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment—when they finally have a solution that matches the problem," Eisenmann says. "And after you have that solution you can step... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort

In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States

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30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

sweetriot to be the number one natural chocolate company in the world and to thus be a vehicle to drive change globally. How can she meet that objective while also keeping the company true to its social roots? Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

nature of the competition is. They should also weigh the importance of user innovation for their market and the value of their complementary good. In the case of some software products, the complementary product is very important. For... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

natural human behavior rather than trying to suppress it with systems and procedures that fly in the face of the way we naturally operate. Q: In the book, you delve heavily into the fields of sociology,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 2017
Case

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the spinoff of Fortive Corporation. The previous day, Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation... View Details