Creating Shared Value - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
News

Commitment to Leadership

employers. As we approached the end of the 20th century we began to question whether the course content was right for the new millennium. Were we developing the kind of leaders needed for our increasingly dynamic global knowledge economy? The Leadership Initiative was... View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2001
News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

Potentia Pharmaceuticals, winner of this year's HBS Business Plan Contest (see pages 6-7). When creating a successful venture, said Hart, basics such as scalability, sustainability, adaptability, and profitability are key components of... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

working throughout the food value chain – creating better information flow from demand to supply points and educating farmers on regenerative farming practices. Pixxel on the other hand, approaches the issue... View Details

22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist

teams must collaborate to ensure they are creating a product that can be marketed and sold. The park divisions, similarly, have discrete and overlapping responsibilities. For example, while Law Enforcement and Interpretive Rangers have... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

and 2010, America’s share of college-educated migrants within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations fell from about 50 percent to 40 percent. Our recent research captures business leaders’ rising anxiety about... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

those of the owners." Hall's research has led him to conclude that annual option arrangements such as "fixed value" and "fixed number" plans are typically preferable to one-time option grants. A fixed value... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

03 Nov 2020
News

One Paramount Priority

In the four years since the last US presidential election, Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) has been interviewing more than 500 voters, talking about everything from gun control to COVID-19. This years-long project has made clear to Hessan that many Americans View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

do you think? To read more: Warren Bennis with Patricia Word Biederman, The Essential Bennis (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009) William George, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Business of Ideas - Course Catalog

“ideas” and how they shape the world in which we operate; and the big businesses that nurture, launch, and sustain idea creators as well as the supply chains that create value from them. Several questions... View Details

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

with Microsoft, for example, took her to Paris to lead the company’s transition to the cloud. She joined Vodafone at its headquarters in the UK shortly after the company had acquired a variety of telecom companies throughout Europe and needed to unify teams around... View Details

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

channel, a mobile Internet or a substitute for PCs. Rather, it is a new aspect of consumerism and a much more powerful way to speak with consumers. Unleashing the value of m-commerce requires understanding the role that mobility plays in... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Research Online

The valuation of forecasted cash flows can be an inaccurate process, especially when the forecasts are created by optimists who neglect to consider worst-case scenarios. In this working paper, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate... View Details

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

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

for evaluating mergers and acquisitions. Assumes that the criterion of a good deal is that it creates value for shareholders, i.e., has a positive deal NPV. Looks at the deal NPV from both the buyer's and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create value by designing (or helping design) the management systems necessary to bring new ventures from... View Details

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

to let customers acquire points or miles or any loot unconnected to the product they are using . . . It's about customers and suppliers caring for each other's success." As Alan de Winter put it, "A consistently well-delivered product or service at good View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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