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- 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that examines how their alliance... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Advertising Authors Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta find that popular Web metrics do not adequately capture consumer behavior online and lead marketers to create less effective View Details
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Luc Sirois
new era,” he says. Sirois credits former professors Jeffrey F. Rayport (Managing in Cyberspace) and Howard H. Stevenson (Entrepreneurial Finance) with jump-starting his thinking. “It was like an epiphany,” he says. “There were lessons on learning how to leverage the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
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that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
said. One example: Polaroid France. Launching the Polaroid camera in France, the company followed Levitt's standardized marketing approach. Problem was, French TV at the time was non-commercial, and Polaroid could not View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details
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Investment management: industry resources
& Poor’s NetAdvantage- Capital Markets Industry Survey IBISWorld- Portfolio Management, Securities Brokering Company Overviews Create lists of competitors, potential employers, and people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
For me, that’s the ultimate compliment. They’ve created a product that’s so compelling and has marketing so far embedded in it that you can’t really isolate it. Do kooky campaigns like the Subservient... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
managers to favor short-term profits over long-term gains. The research results suggest that managers of public companies are under much more pressure than their private-firm counterparts to show short-term financial results. Peeking In On Private Companies The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores. "Each year there is more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates... View Details
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Outrage at the Death of a Tree - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
expenses between his personal and business accounts. When I pay a bill today, I hear my father’s voice in my head, and it’s always a clear reminder of what is the right thing to do. I’m sure that graduates of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
policy activism and withdraw from associations that refuse to do so, like when Pacific Gas & Electric, Apple, and Nike left the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Third, businesses should View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
catalyzing solutions around them. If you read the front page of the newspaper any day, it's increasingly obvious that social and environmental externalities cannot be separated from the business and market opportunities that View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
edge. READ MORE The World at a Click A stay at Turtle Island is an eagerly anticipated experience, and those expectations create management challenges for Evanson and the resort's 130-person staff. "One thing my HBS professors would love... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
occasion to reveal that Doerr’s firm has created a $100 million “iFund” to encourage programmers to develop all manner of software, from games to business, for the iPhone; Kleiner Perkins will back promising new iPhone ideas and the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
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E. Ricart Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common mistake, the authors' studies show, is enterprises'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne