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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
MIS faculty, as well as faculty from other units whose research is related to MIS, are currently engaged in research to track the evolution of information technology and to determine how IT infrastructure can create value in the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
and career choices. Graduating from IIT Kharagpur, I decided to join Schlumberger – the world’s largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger, founded in 1926, in many ways reminded me of Tata Steel, a company that cares for its people... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
agreed with this statement that shareholder value is no longer everything. These are the folks that make up the Business Roundtable. And the Business Roundtable is a group of 140 CEOs of the largest View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
How the Ron Brown Award Was Born
in terms of the companies' long-term commitment to the programs and the way they reflected the companies' values as part of everything they do," Kanter notes. "The resources and number of people involved, including the CEOs, were... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
environment, and that extends to the post-MBA landscape. I am amazed by not only the assistance from MBA Support Services and Career & Professional Development, but also by the encouragement from the companies that visit campus. As a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
stakeholders detailed results and improve the level of dialogue and engagement with them. Senior Lecturer Eccles and his coauthor show how integrated reporting adds value to a company and contributes to a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust
In a recent opinion piece in The Financial Times, Dean Nitin Nohria outlines the School’s commitment to educating leaders who are “deeply committed to values and ethics.” “Business schools—including HBS—must teach students how to be... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
companies, spelling out corporate governance principles that it would advocate. (See illustration.) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink followed in 2016 with a letter to chief executives of large US and European companies urging them to focus on... View Details
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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network AllWorld Network AllWorld Network... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
the value chain framework to define the set of activities through which products and services are created and delivered to customers.6 Once activities are defined, it is then possible to analyze the economics at each step in the chain by... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
leading government officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
than you are and learn from them. Remember that being a business leader is about giving-not taking-and that you can and must make a difference." Recently named by Fortune as one of the ten greatest CEOs of all time, Jim Burke recommitted Johnson & Johnson to a credo... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Rethink pricing to create shared—and expanded—value
John T. Gourville, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, advocates that value be shared by a firm and its customers. “Without a willing customer, there is no value,” he says. “When View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders
WHITEHEAD (with moderator George):Because "the world cries out for leadership," HBS students must lead not just in their companies but in their lives. John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ ’47), one of HBS’s most distinguished graduates, is a... View Details
Otto D. Donnell
When Donnell took over the presidency of Ohio Oil in 1927, the company had over $104 million in assets with $7 million in net profits. Donnell began a program of expansion in 1930, purchasing various oil View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- October 1990
- Case
Parenting Magazine
Describes a set of decisions confronting Robin Wolaner, who is negotiating with representatives of Time Inc. about investing in a project to launch a new magazine called Parenting. The negotiations have reached an impasse. Among the issues to be considered are the... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Projects; Journals and Magazines; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Parenting Magazine." Harvard Business School Case 291-015, October 1990.
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
recognizing this, BMW Group several years ago began issuing a Sustainable Value Report detailing the energy and water consumed, waste removed, and volatile organic compounds per vehicle produced. BMW believes that its reputation as the... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
Kelsey Morgan Pasqualichio
I have 12 years of private market investing experience which spans the spectrum from early stage startups to late stage LBOs. This has given me unique perspective and an understanding of what different constituent groups (investors, View Details
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Porter Prize South Korea - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Honors & Awards Honors & Awards Porter Prize Japan Porter Prize India Porter Prize... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- News
Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce
Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who built the concept of renting designer clothing into a... View Details