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Dutch Leonard
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
- August 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Votia Empowerment AB (A)
The founder of a Swedish company specializing in e-democracy examines the economics of her business and the value proposition it delivers to customers, including municipalities, unions, and companies. View Details
Hallowell, Roger H., and Cate Reavis. "Votia Empowerment AB (A)." Harvard Business School Case 802-002, August 2001. (Revised January 2002.)
- Article
How Much Does Industry Matter, Really?
By: A. M. McGahan and M. E. Porter
In this paper, we examine the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects on the profitability of U.S. public corporations within specific 4-digit SIC categories. Our results indicate that year, industry, corporate-parent, and... View Details
McGahan, A. M., and M. E. Porter. "How Much Does Industry Matter, Really?" Special Issue on Organizational and Competitive Influences on Strategy and Performance. Strategic Management Journal 18, no. S1 (July 1997): 15–30.
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
The Balanced Scorecard, an influential book on strategic performance management and control. 1997 Robert Merton and Myron Scholes win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a new method to determine the value View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- July 2009 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Alacra, Inc.
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Aldo Sesia
In 2009, the CEO of Alacra, a venture-backed information services firm that provides customized data primarily to financial services firms, must decide how to respond to the global economic crisis. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Aldo Sesia. "Alacra, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 810-012, July 2009. (Revised January 2014.)
- 26 Apr 2018
- HBS Seminar
Olav Sorenson, Yale University
- 01 Jul 2019
- News
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
- March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Shanghai: GDP Apostasy
By: George Serafeim
Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success.... View Details
Keywords: China; Gdp; Measurement; Measurement Problems; Accountability; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Strategy Execution; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Map; Macroeconomics; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Corporate Governance; Shanghai
Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and David Freiberg. "Shanghai: GDP Apostasy." Harvard Business School Case 115-042, March 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- 2004
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
By: Amar Bhidé
Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details
Bhidé, Amar. Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. Vol. 9, Topics in Corporate Finance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, 2004.
Jeffrey T. Polzer
Jeff Polzer is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies how people collaborate in teams and across organizational networks to accomplish their individual and collective... View Details
- March 2009 (Revised May 2013)
- Supplement
Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B)
By: Laura Alfaro and Akiko Kanno
Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An economic recovery had allowed the central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, and Akiko Kanno. "Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 709-056, March 2009. (Revised May 2013.)
Geoffrey G. Jones
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised August 2014)
- Supplement
Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)
By: Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell
Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had... View Details
Keywords: Global Business; Developing Countries; Business Government Relations; Economic Growth; Foreign Direct Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; South Africa
Werker, Eric, and Ian McKown Cornell. "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B) ." Harvard Business School Supplement 712-054, June 2012. (Revised August 2014.)
- February 2016
- Teaching Note
Indonesia: Growth and Stability in a Global Economy
By: Lakshmi Iyer
This country case on Indonesia is designed to enable a discussion of the potential risks in financial globalization. The country suffered a severe economic crisis in 1997-98 when global capital withdrew from many Asian countries. A significant currency depreciation of... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- Book
Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional
Crystal Guo
Crystal Guo is a doctoral student in the Health Policy Management PhD program at Harvard. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Crystal received her B.A. in English and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and completed her Health Policy and Management,... View Details
Keywords: health care
- Article
Workplace Stressors & Health Outcomes: Health Policy for the Workplace
By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Extensive research focuses on the causes of workplace-induced stress. However, policy efforts to tackle the ever-increasing health costs and poor health outcomes in the United States have largely ignored the health effects of psychosocial workplace stressors such as... View Details
Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios. "Workplace Stressors & Health Outcomes: Health Policy for the Workplace." Behavioral Science & Policy 1, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 43–52.
- 15 Aug 2014
- News