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- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
The topic of governance is hot. Shareholders, managers, and business advisors are demanding improved governance of (typically public) companies by strengthening their boards of directors and developing more responsive shareholder... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
the high ground, allowing it to influence norms and policies to mitigate AI bias. But the tech giant’s decision to push out pioneering AI researcher and ethicist Timnit Gebru set the company on a rocky course, contends Harvard Business... View Details
- 25 Aug 2011
- News
Can an Apple without Steve Jobs come up with the next big thing?
- 09 Jul 2015
- News
Tech glitches at big institutions made it a good day for paranoia
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard View Details
- winter 1986
- Article
Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms
By: Paul M. Healy and Tom Lys
Healy, Paul M., and Tom Lys. "Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms." Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 5, no. 4 (winter 1986): 251–265.
- March 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Business Model Design; Weather Insurance; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Natural Environment; Natural Disasters; Weather; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Insurance; Social Issues; Insurance Industry; United States; California
- 2017
- Working Paper
Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Kristina Söderholm. "Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-050, December 2017.
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
to quit their jobs at record rates and try new posts and career paths. But self-employment, an option many workers are reportedly pursuing during the so-called Great Resignation, may not be as lucrative as it once was, according to a recent Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
like in the classroom. I wrote this for them. Here’s the scene: It’s the first class of my first day at Harvard Business School in 1969. Five years after graduating from Princeton as an English major, I’ve been discharged from the US... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- Video
Half of US companies in major industries are betting big on climate tech
- Awards
Amazon Best Books of the Year: Business & Investing
By: Anita Elberse
Awarded Amazon’s "Best Books of 2013," Business and Investing category, for Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment (Henry Holt and Company). View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow... View Details
- 26 Jun 2015
- News
Slumping Red Sox bad for business
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
worked, how the pie has been divided, how employees have thought about their work and themselves, and how enormously that has changed through time. There are big junctures in the history of American business... View Details