Activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

of its operating income, while P&G has a policy of licensing any patented technology not in use in one of its own businesses within three years. Q: What are the benefits for a business actively following an open innovation paradigm?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

any initiative to empower the poor and the equally critical importance of available credit to allow poorer families to invest in their future. Despite the plethora of education-related activities and the rapidly growing success stories in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

instilling a collaborative organization, which also includes coordinating activities and doing joint work across organization boundaries. For example, Intuit's CEO, Steve Bennett, has worked hard to instill a collaborative culture in the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

tap a Core Partner who has experience running sales teams who will support the company for a few hours a month, or even take a more active role if needed. To align incentives with the founders, shares are given to Core Partners from... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

open students up to the reality that each of us have massive blind spots, and that it’s our responsibility to explore our blind spots rather than shy away from them. Austin: Systemic racism is not a product of past decisions and decision-makers, it is an View Details

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding

to be playing catch-up a few years down the line. I don’t want to only understand ongoing technical breakthroughs - I want to actively engage in them. For example, though my neuroscience background allowed me to comprehend machine... View Details

03 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library

from 2006 to 2023 U.S. states with the highest Arab American population in 2023 Contemporary Collections Contemporary Collections aim to support the research and curriculum of the Harvard Business School today and into the future. Collection View Details

14 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language used to describe jobs and the company. Hiring. Educate managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions.... View Details

01 Feb 2017
News

New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach

underlying Israel’s strength in technology and innovation More than half the cases published in FY16 were international in scope or focus. To facilitate growing interest and activity in Africa, the Global Initiative established an office... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Professors Thompson, Healy Remembered

social responsibility. Healy was an authority on labor relations and arbitration who joined the faculty in 1946. He remained active in high-level dispute resolution while teaching at HBS and was the coauthor of Collective Bargaining, a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Together Again

building green businesses to winning in emerging markets to rethinking business education. For many, the reunion was a family affair, with children and grandchildren participating in a variety of activities tailored to their interests. To... View Details

Keywords: reunion

Robert L. Vann

Under Vann’s leadership, the Courier became the essential, and the only, newspaper that reported news and provided a positive showcasing of Pittsburgh’s growing black community. The paper became a very active political and community... View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

March 2009 (Revised September 2010)
Case

HOYA Corporation (A)

By: W. Carl Kester and Masako Egawa

In 2007, HOYA of Japan must decide whether to change its friendly exchange offer for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Tactics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Japan

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A Network for Change | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

from HBS and Harvard Kennedy School that provides a forum for exploring the synergies between all sectors to address critical social and environmental issues worldwide. Alumni Clubs & Associations Local and regional HBS alumni clubs offer a wide range of social... View Details

01 Jan 2009
News

Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962

capitalization exceeding $2 billion. Recent activities in the firm’s portfolio include advising Roche Holding on its acquisition of Genentech and assisting Chrysler in its restructuring efforts. Greenhill and his wife, Gayle, are View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

or, conversely, a new product or technology offered by the firm can be easily integrated into the existing ecosystems as an extension or addition to its capabilities. Firms that actively seek out new terrain in this way have the further... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

greenhouse gas emissions is going to be insufficient. So we have got to start to find ways to actually actively remove greenhouse gasses, CO2 specifically, from the atmosphere if we're actually going to win this race. DM: Right now, there... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

competition has heightened activity and stimulated change in these areas." Tufano adds that the proliferation of information and products has been so enormous that a key area of competition has become the battle to simplify this overload... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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