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  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2024 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

Anthropic: Building Safe AI

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In late 2024, Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, achieved a significant breakthrough with computer use capabilities that allowed AI to interact with computers like humans. Co-founded by former OpenAI employees and known for its generative AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

them. John D.Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and former chairman and CEO of the George B. H. Macomber Company, a general contractor. Mega sporting events like the Olympics bring a global... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

ones—lots of growth opportunities. The 1998 merger of BP and Amoco, for example, led to the disposal of 12 oil-storage terminals scattered across North America. The terminals were purchased by the Williams Companies, a small business... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Breaking Barriers and Building Community: Get to Know the HBS Women's Student Association (WSA)

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus. What do we do? Our role is to make... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

HBS feel supported, both professionally and personally. Our mission is to connect, empower, and celebrate the next generation of women leaders. We feel it's our responsibility to ensure the women in our campus community have the resources... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
  • Case

Addleshaw Goddard LLP (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and James Weber
Addleshaw-Goddard (AG), the 15th largest law firm in the UK, is seeking ways to serve larger clients on more important legal matters. Part of this strategy involves its "Client Development Centre (CDC)," an innovative idea and set of services launched by Dr. Jim Hever... View Details
Keywords: Price; Innovation and Invention; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Legal Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 16 May 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Robert Gierkink, Chairman, Datalogix

  • 2014
  • Book

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Philippines, the U.S., and most recently, China. Aspiring Minds had seen success as a business-to-business (B2B) entity, creating and selling technology products geared towards industry verticals. By 2015 the business-to-consumer (B2C) side of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

honor of Peter O. Crisp. Thomas R. Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration, who was recently appointed faculty chair, will be the first to hold the title of Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Article

The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries.

Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Trade; Economy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; System Shocks; Price; Restructuring; Interests; Energy Industry; Steel Industry; China
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  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

Michael Collins is looking to diversify. His company, Big Idea Group, currently produces only children's toys, but he thinks his process for discovering, refining, and bringing ideas to market can work in other niches. As the Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
  • Web

After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

“Acting as a middleman between two worlds, [the comprador] played a strategically important role in modern China’s economic growth, social change, and general acculturation,” historian Yen- P’ing Hao writes. 24 Over time compradors also... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

is no chance of meeting it,” says Doug J. Chung, MBA Class of 1962 Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. "The salesperson will be discouraged,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Cotting House | About

students, MBA fellowships, and faculty development each year. Cotting belonged to the fourth generation of a venerable New England family that figured prominently in the early development of Boston as a city and View Details
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai