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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
increasing lifespans—and why companies needed a more thoughtful strategy for addressing these consumers. Today, Golden is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the new... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
Island, an innovative private equity firm established by Glenn Hutchins, MBA 1983, (previously cofounder of Silver Lake and a fellow Harvard alum). Our vision is to improve on traditional private equity by building a more concentrated... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
contributed complementary skills from the energy sector—to establish the firm’s leadership team. Advani believes the company’s middle-market private equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
lacking private sector experience, I was also pushed to develop more effective strategies for translating the business case for equity and inclusion. My final year provided... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
firms that are financially constrained, using three novel tests: an exogenous increase in a firm's demand for credit, exogenous variation in the supply of bank loans, and the tendency View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Curriculum | MBA
key disciplines. Fall Term Finance 1 Financial Reporting & Control (FRC) Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD) Marketing Technology & Operations Management (TOM) Strategy Spring Term Data Science & AI View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
the region's business issues and the research opportunities they present. "The integration of Europe is leading companies to devote more attention to their pan-European strategy," says Crane. "Cross-border mergers, for example, have... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
alone do not a learning organization make. The necessary complement is a mind-set of inquiry and experimentation, plus a knowledge-sharing process that enables everyone in a company to act in an informed way upon what's been learned before. At the heart of Garvin's... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
competitive development of firms in 10 Latin American countries. After earning his degree and returning to INCAE, Condo taught competition and strategy while becoming involved in, and eventually leading, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
the strategy shifted, and they happened to be on the favored side of that strategy” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her research colleagues call this "unearned status gain," which can cause problems View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
payroll monthly gave me a new appreciation for sales and selling,” he says. “As [Samuel] Johnson said, the prospect of hanging in the morning concentrates the mind.” He put much of what he learned in his 2014 book, Aligning View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) What is really at stake when we talk about patents? Lauren Cohen: Innovation is the future of the US economy. Given that the value of firms is shifting toward intellectual property, if we don’t get patents... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Globalization and Emerging Markets Course Number 1151 Associate Professor Reshmaan Hussam Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Final Exam Career Focus Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who... View Details
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
have owned started out as a disruptive company.— Clayton M. Christensen Copying the management best practices of leading firms isn't necessarily the answer, Christensen said. When inventors in the Middle Ages tried to invent a contraption... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
media and in the classroom. Global Entrepreneurship develops strategies for entrepreneurs and investors in these emerging ecosystems around the globe. The course will have cases from 26 different countries... View Details