Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Apr 2007
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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

15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

research is starting to look at customers whose value is not as readily apparent, and where CLV calculations break down. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta calls them... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

December 13, 2022
Article

6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow

By: Joseph Fuller, Matthew Sigelman and Nik Dawson

The authors recently studied Fortune 250 companies and ranked them based on the lived experience of three million of their U.S. workers. One of their key findings was that even top-ranked firms fail to deliver consistently on worker advancement. To understand why this... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Training; Business Model; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities

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05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

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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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Winner of the 2022 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the Financial Analysts Journal for “Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?” (2022) with Aaron Yoon. George Serafeim : Winner of the 2022 Journal of International View Details

June 10, 2021
Article

How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World

By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman

Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing View Details

07 Nov 2019
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Growing Our Food: Making Agriculture More Sustainable

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

value, though they all understand profit as an essential outcome. HCHP firms are able to show sustained performance because they achieve the following three paradoxical goals: Performance alignment: Managing with their head, leaders develop an organizational design,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We examine the channels through which a sovereign default may affect the economy. Harvard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

whether they should modify this strategy somewhat, or whether they should abandon their current strategy entirely. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/advising-families-on-estate-planning/an/314088-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Professor of Information Systems, Ivey Business School, delve into the growing neurodiversity initiative at software behemoth SAP in their case study SAP SE: Autism at Work. Software testing is exacting... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

what we are doing and why. Six years ago we launched an initiative at the Harvard Business School on leadership and values. It grew out of a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on state-owned and foreign firms. The case describes the formidable challenges she View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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