Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Case Research & Writing Group - Faculty & Research

Research Services Case Research & Writing Group 3ms Established in November 1999, the Case Research & Writing Group (CRG) grew out of Harvard Business School’s commitment to increase the diversity, impact, View Details

Profile

Joy Chen

experience with nonprofits, I felt that people often weren’t incentivized to create value in the most efficient way possible. The level of pay sometimes struggled to attract top talent, and there were lots of red tape. Ultimately, I... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

that. It’s just something that really excites me deeply,” says Nadkarni. Nadkarni sits on the board of TiE Seattle and chairs two educational initiatives he established to expand the organization’s efforts... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

management. Instead, Perlman mapped backward from his VC target, reasoning that WebTV's appeal and value to the VCs would be greatly enhanced by partnership with a prominent consumer electronics firm. Perlman started by pitching his... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

investment success. “The initial funding was $7.5 million; one of our first investments was $250,000 in Intel.” Apple corps: “We invested early in Apple, purchasing 10 percent of the company in 1979 for $300,000. Serving on the board for... View Details

14 Nov 2017
News

Students help groups to pursue climate action

16 Jun 2015
News

Michael Porter on America's Historic Energy Opportunity

01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

A proposed advertising deal between Internet competitors Google and Yahoo would reduce competitiveness in the Internet advertising market, likely resulting in higher advertising rates, according to Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

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Faculty & Research - Health Care

at HBS and health care is one of the ISC's core research areas. The Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) Led by Kathy Giusti and Richard Hamermesh who worked with health care leaders to develop a... View Details

05 Jul 2023
News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council recently marked the grand opening of "The House"—a new permanent club headquarters and collaborative space located in Dubai and open to all HBS alumni living in or visiting the Gulf region. According to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2023
News

Elevator Pitch: Feedback

closed-loop production process developed by Bright Feeds is energy-efficient and carbon-negative. Heard: “Working in the sustainability space for a for-profit business that is mission-driven has been really... View Details

Keywords: Illustration by Drue Wagner; Photo by ChiChi Ubiña

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Engage Effectively Josh Baron Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Accounting & Management) Ethan... View Details

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