General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

brown-bag lunches where members can generate ideas for club activities or participate in classes covering ethics in business. Dolan also wants to create a course offering the opportunity to explore spirituality in the workplace — an area... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

Bean, the U.S. Army's Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL), AT&T's Bell Laboratories, the Timken Companies and General Electric's Change Acceleration Process (CAP). L.L. Bean has long relied on inquiry as a source of learning to... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

Web

Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Ascensia Diabetes Care Ask Big Questions AstraZeneca athenahealth ATI Physical Therapy | Advent International Portfolio Company Atlantic Council Augmedix Inc. Autism Spectrum Therapies Avenue Pacific AVIA Axcella Health B Bain & Co. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Baxter... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

tech companies on digital and technology transformation with McKinsey and Company, and previously worked as an engineer deploying rapid prototyping devices for Intel and Apple. Yuval discusses his path to HBS, experience at Harvard View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

Credit: pixelfit SUMMING UP How Will Digital Currencies Be Regulated? Blockchain technology has a brighter future than most digital currencies in general and Bitcoin in particular, judging from responses to this month’s column. It’s also... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

innovations generate heterogeneous innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm size distribution... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 18

enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The paper begins by distinguishing business and human rights from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. On behalf of all who benefit from the School’s work, we are grateful to the donors who believe in and help shape this institution. 1908 Harvard's Graduate School of Business... View Details

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

as several states in the West were planning a new joint program. “Those who make poor choices feel the consequences of price uncertainty most deeply.” So clearly it's important for business managers in many industries to understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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... View Details

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

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting

The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources and recommendations from experts... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

debate between economists such as the Chicago school’s Milton Friedman, who argued that the sole purpose of business is to generate profit for (and presumably transfer wealth to) shareholders by any legal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

HBS was a hundred years ago to what it is today and what it can be in the future. Not only can you come here because you want to be a leader who makes a difference in the world, you can make a difference at HBS itself. This can have significant influence in driving... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

2009
Working Paper

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold

This paper examines differences in the size and roles of corporate headquarters around the world. Based on a survey of over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, UK, Japan, US, and Chile) the paper describes the differences among... View Details

Keywords: Business Headquarters; Size; Organizational Structure; Culture; Japan; France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Chile

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10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and the 2004 Athens Olympic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

the opportunity for feedback from panels of expert judges, to test their ideas in a rigorous and supportive environment. Within the Social Enterprise Track specifically, teams focused on ventures that generate significant social value,... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsBundling the Contracts: TA-Energy Harvard Business School Case 807-075 Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning... View Details