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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is how property insurance companies... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

short-term debt against the refinancing risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of short-term,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • November 2018
  • Case

Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Sales; Entrepreneurial Selling; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Barrier To Entry; Business Start-ups; Yatooq; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Patents; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Adaptation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Asia
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  • 12 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

approximately 600,000 citizens and 68,000 businesses, private homes account for 50% of the combustible waste provided. Waste is also occasionally imported from countries as far away as Italy, as the environmental impact of waste... View Details
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an economic system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

module boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. In this chapter I extend the functional mapping techniques developed in the last chapter to locate technical and strategic bottlenecks, modules, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

persistent effect on post-colonial outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-041.pdf Cases & Course Materials The Amsterdam World Trade Center Harvard Business School Case 208-078 Late in September 2001, Hans van Tartwijk, president of Trimp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate Game, Poorvu sees the housing issue as suffering from a lack of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Books

today’s China,” Huang observes. That attitude must give way to “an ideological commitment to private property rights” and to the institutional reforms that would necessarily follow. That development seems... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809122 Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-027 In 2005,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity firms are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

identify survey instruments used to measure teamwork. We evaluated instruments' psychometric properties (e.g., discriminant and content validity) and assessed whether they had been shown to relate to outcomes of interest in peer-reviewed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

privatization have created unprecedented opportunities for firms of all sizes and varieties to compete in larger markets than ever before. In the process, a handful of global organizations have risen to replace formerly state-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry