Filter Results:
(4,489)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,489)
- People (10)
- News (1,104)
- Research (2,864)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (31)
- Faculty Publications (1,767)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(4,489)
- People (10)
- News (1,104)
- Research (2,864)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (31)
- Faculty Publications (1,767)
Arjun Chopra
Arjun Chopra (MBA 2004) is a Partner at FLOODGATE and leads the firm's investments in opportunities that transform the "IT stack" in ways that help companies change the way they do business and compete. Arjun was the CTO at Cambridge... View Details
- Web
Israel - Global Activities 2021
Israel Israel Addressing Water Scarcity with Precision Irrigation Pictured: Drip irrigation funnels water and nutrients directly to the root zones of plants and the slow flow ensures uniform delivery. With climate change making water... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
"Luxury, Technology, Integration"
revolutionized by e-commerce. At HBS we learned how disruptors change an industry through the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) course, and I have certainly observed many of the elements of a disruptor at YNAP. Both... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
startup after graduation. Through my experiences with BEI and CLP, I've realized that addressing climate change requires more than just technological advancements and capital funding. We need a business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
time, and allow demand to follow supply. Are global R&D budgets being allocated efficiently to the most promising technologies to prepare for the next era—or to those technologies in which our industrial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
change is in the air. While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot’s days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
to reduce the total allowable pollution levels for the cement firms. Students are instructed to try to maximize profits and not, for example, install clean technology because they think it is morally responsible. Trading Begins In class,... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
research (and my future research) will contribute to our knowledge of how customer behavior and operating systems interact, and at the same time influence change in this key industry. In addition, any findings from this work will also... View Details
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
discusses the common growth drivers (e.g., school accountability, 21st century skills, and advanced technological innovations) and theories of change (e.g., personalization, access, and productivity) for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Douglas Spreng (MBA 1967)
Technology advanced dramatically throughout his career, changing the way business operated and how people interacted in stunning ways. “To have managed a technical business throughout that period was an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
and the Harvard Kennedy School. The two-day event on the HBS campus drew 1,500 attendees from across the country for panels, workshops, a career fair, and the Pitch for Change business plan competition, where social entrepreneurs vie for... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
competitor's action as both a threat and an opportunity. Here are organizational and process changes that can help meet the challenge.It's one thing to recognize the importance of careful framing when you're faced with a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Digital Manufacturing at Amgen
By: Shane Greenstein, Kyle R. Myers and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note provides guidance for instructors teaching “Digital Manufacturing at Amgen,” case no. 621-008. View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Knowledge; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Science; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; California; Puerto Rico; Rhode Island
- March 2023
- Supplement
Allianz Türkiye (C): Managing the 2017 Hail Storm
By: John D. Macomber and Fares Khrais
Allianz Turkey is a property casualty insurance company operating in a region experiencing increasing losses from natural catastrophe events related to climate change, for example hail, wildfire, and flooding. There are also substantial other natural catastrophe... View Details
Keywords: Insurance And Reinsurance; Natural Disasters; Turkey; Insurance; Climate Change; Analytics and Data Science; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
Macomber, John D., and Fares Khrais. "Allianz Türkiye (C): Managing the 2017 Hail Storm." Harvard Business School Supplement 223-084, March 2023.
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Daniella Suarez and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Beatriz Cardoso, founder of Laboratório de Educação (Education Laboratory) had a dream to propel Brazilian education. However, challenges in fundraising made it difficult to scale up her project, based on helping adults help children improve their literacy skills. To... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Business Startups; Information Technology; Leading Change; Brazil
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Daniella Suarez, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 1999
- Chapter
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
By: Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
Bower, Joseph L., and Clayton M. Christensen. "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave." Chap. 29 in The Entrepreneurial Venture. 2nd ed. by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide, 506–520. Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- October 1987 (Revised March 1992)
- Case
United Parcel Service (A)
United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1987 faced serious challenges to its long-standing policies of on-the-job training and promotion from within. Increased competition in its traditional business of ground transport found UPS lagging in computerization and in need of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Service Industry; United States
Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A. "United Parcel Service (A)." Harvard Business School Case 488-016, October 1987. (Revised March 1992.)
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
Building Your Scaled Digital Organization
- April 1996 (Revised June 1996)
- Background Note
Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures
By: James E. Austin and Jaan Elias
Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Analytics and Data Science; Economic Growth; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
Austin, James E., and Jaan Elias. "Cleveland Turnaround (C), The: Facts and Figures." Harvard Business School Background Note 796-153, April 1996. (Revised June 1996.)