Publications

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

Program

Value Creation Through Effective Boards

greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you will emerge a stronger leader and decision-maker, ready to create more value for your company. This program is developed and taught in collaboration with the IESE... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

energy and political landscape. The case raises urgent questions about trade-offs in public utility strategy, stakeholder alignment, and long-term energy planning. Keywords: Renewable Energy ; Infrastructure ; State Ownership ; Vertical... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Feb 2023
Webinars: Career

LinkedIn Profile Workshop

In job hunting, learning to optimize your LinkedIn profile with the knowledge of how recruiters actually utilize LinkedIn is crucial. Join CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, for a profile workshop. View Details

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Japan - Global

studies and course materials for use in business education programs around the world. Since opening, the JRC has supported most of the Japan-focused cases and HBS research projects on the region. Location... View Details

November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman and Sarah McAra

This case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; Health And Wellness; Nutrition; Health; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland; Europe; Africa; Latin America; North America; Asia

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

Self-Catering Self-supplied food and non-alcoholic beverages is referred to as "self-catering". Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct The School is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment View Details

Myra M. Hart

Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship. She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

Keywords: education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry

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Community Values | About

Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. Achieving this mission requires an environment of trust and mutual respect, free expression and inquiry, and a commitment to... View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

libraries—are available at the center of the campus. Baker Research Services are available for data gathering and in-depth research. Research Support Baker Research and Data Services provides doctoral students with research assistance, specializing View Details

June 2003 (Revised May 2006)
Case

Cipla

By: Rohit Deshpande and Laura Winig

The head of Cipla, a $325-million-dollar Indian pharmaceutical company and seller of low-cost AIDS drugs to South Africa, must decide what to do about Cipla's future. With India poised to enforce international patents in only two years, much of Cipla's product line... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Price; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Leadership; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; South Africa; India

01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

core credit skills that can lead to careers in areas ranging from investment banking to credit underwriting and risk management. (It also offers prepaid tuition vouchers that employees can use to cover the cost of outside training, along... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

assesses America’s 250 largest public companies as ranked by Fortune magazine. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement and that's something that workers and employment... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Private Capital Project

deeper interaction between academia and practitioners to understand the big challenges in the industry and their potential solutions To foster influential research at HBS and other schools by assembling and curating data on the industry... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE The Coca-Cola Co., Eurasia Africa Group, Pacemaker International, Teach for China Jacob Meiner “I WANT TO GET SMACK-DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MOST COMPLEX PROBLEMS.” HOME REGION... View Details

July 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Case

AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market

By: Rory McDonald, Clayton Christensen, Robin Yang and Ty Hollingsworth

More than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; New Markets; Grocery; Operations Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Learning; Service Operations; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; United States