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- 24 Jun 2013
- Other Presentation
The Business Imperative for Shared Value
The ideas drawn from "Creating Shared Value" (Harvard Business Review, Jan 2011) and "Competing by Saving Lives" (FSG, 2012) View Details
Porter, Michael E. "The Business Imperative for Shared Value." Becton, Dickinson & Company, Boston, MA, United States, June 24, 2013.
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
Enhancing the Worldview of HBS Students and Faculty Building on a legacy of global engagement, Harvard Business School has made internationalization a key priority for its second century. To prepare leaders to meet the challenges of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
- April 2012 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Merck: Operating Science-Based Business
By: Ananth Raman, Inga Maurer and William Schmidt
Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces extreme earnings pressure? View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Management; Research and Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Raman, Ananth, Inga Maurer, and William Schmidt. "Merck: Operating Science-Based Business." Harvard Business School Case 612-082, April 2012. (Revised May 2012.)
- May 6, 2010
- Other Article
How Big Business Can Regain Legitimacy
Harvard Business School competitiveness guru Michael E. Porter urges large organizations to invest in small businesses in inner cities. View Details
Porter, Michael E. "How Big Business Can Regain Legitimacy." Bloomberg Businessweek (May 6, 2010).
- 01 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Emir Kamenica, Chicago Booth School of Business
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
There are over three million corporations in the United States today. From my experience working with a range of businesses, I am sure there is no cancer of immorality among them. The vast majority of our alumni and View Details
- 11 Feb 2010
- News
Business and the Olympics
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in diagnosing liver, kidney, and... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
JCPenney: Back in Business
By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Christine Snively
In 2016, JCPenney was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround after coming dangerously close to bankruptcy. Under CEO Marvin Ellison, the company had identified three strategic objectives—a focus on omnichannel, private label goods, and increasing revenue per... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Customer Management; Omnichannel; Turnarounds; Private Label; Promotions; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
Ofek, Elie, K. Shelette Stewart, and Christine Snively. "JCPenney: Back in Business." Harvard Business School Case 517-037, October 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
research covered the era between 1850 and 1950, when big business emerged and grew spectacularly, and when the United States became the world's largest economy. There is an underlying assumption in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2015
- News
Helping a family business
HBS has given Ricardo Aguirre (MBA 2015) the ability to listen and learn from others, an asset he plans to take back to his family’s businesses in Venezuela. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Products Industry ; Construction Industry ; Greece ; Europe ; United States Citation Educators Related Serafeim, George, and Lena Duchene. "Transforming a Titan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 125-121,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 09 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Is Business School Right for You?
Dr. Jill Avery is a senior lecturer in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School, an authority on brand management and customer relationship management (CRM), and the Faculty Chair for HBS Peek. Imagine... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- News