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- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
my HBS essay while working in a business facing role. Some soul searching helped me realize that my ideal post-MBA role needed to satisfy the following criteria: Be sustainability and technology focused... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 19 Nov 2021
- News
Aiming for Sustainability Isn’t Good Enough—The Goal Is Much Higher
- 28 Jan 2025
- Video
The business leaders leading Europe’s green transition
- June 2004
- Case
AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (A)
By: Rogelio Oliva, Elizabeth Keating and James Quinn
The newly appointed director of the project dedicated to reducing product development time for AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (TSBU) is trying to decide how best to sustain the momentum of its Achieving Process Excellence (APEX) teams. During the past three... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Groups and Teams; Performance Improvement; Business Processes; Product Development; Telecommunications Industry
Oliva, Rogelio, Elizabeth Keating, and James Quinn. "AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (A)." Harvard Business School Case 604-098, June 2004.
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
The United States and Germany remain atop the latest Business Competitiveness Index, with China continuing to slip in the rankings while India ascends, according to a report released from Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility initiative. Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine emphasized the importance of both ethics and economics for outstanding organizations. They argued that the only zone of View Details
- Web
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 Course Number 1507 Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 sessions Paper This short version of BSSE will focus on core... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
Going Green in Global Businesses
- September 2000
- Background Note
Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Service Operations; For-Profit Firms; Power and Influence; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-008, September 2000.
- Web
Business Model Shift
Winning companies owe their success to a business model that effectively creates and captures value. When organizations link a business model to new technologies to meet an emerging market need, they can... View Details
- November 29, 2011
- Article
The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy
By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
While conceptually elegant, the belief that a corporation's role is to maximize value for shareholders is under increasing challenge as society's expectations for companies change. An equally elegant new concept that takes account of these dual pressures has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits; Information
Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim. "The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy." TrustLaw (November 29, 2011).
- December 2010
- Article
Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations
By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
Battilana, Julie, and Silvia Dorado. "Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations." Academy of Management Journal 53, no. 6 (December 2010): 1419–1440.
- 2015
- Chapter
The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld
Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems
Hoffman, Andrew J., and John Ehrenfeld. "The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene." Chap. 13 in Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness, edited by Susan Albers Mohrman, James O'Toole, and Edward E. Lawler, 228–246. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2015.
- March 2013
- Teaching Note
Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
What will the chief sustainability officer of the future look like?
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
satisfy the following criteria: 1) be sustainability and technology focused; 2) challenge me to solve tough problems; 3) teach me how to work in business strategy and/or ops functions; 4) allow me to develop... View Details
- 2022
- Chapter
Capitalism and the Environment
By: Geoffrey Jones
Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details
Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change
Jones, Geoffrey. "Capitalism and the Environment." Chap. 8 in Evolutions of Capitalism: Historical Perspectives: 1200–2000, edited by Catherine Casson and Philipp Robinson Rössner, 187–211. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press, 2022.
- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
Four years ago, I got involved with coaching and career education programs. This led me to working with students interested in industries such as consumer products, retail, sustainability, agribusiness, and hospitality. Living sustainably... View Details
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Fellowships - Business History
scholarship and must undertake sustained projects of new research or other original work. They will be expected to be in residence and participate in the vibrant community of historians of business, capitalism, and political economy at... View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
Anne-Marie Schoonbeek (MBA 2017) and Heleen van Poecke (MBA 2017), grew up in small towns in The Netherlands fifteen minutes apart from one another. Yet in all those years, their paths never crossed. Instead, over 3,000 miles away from home, Harvard View Details