General Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

January 1999
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Seneca Systems (B): General and Confidential Instructions for R. Thompson, Vice President, Marketing

Seneca is a three-party negotiation-mediation simulation. The context is a product failure crisis in a manufacturing company with highly autonomous units. The heads of two divisions are in a dispute over who has responsibility for failures in a key product. The head of... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Participants; Business Divisions; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry

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IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS | Information Technology

IT Strategy: Empowering the Future of Generative AI Innovation at HBS 2.07 GenAI Enablement & Exploration By Annie Harrison on March 4, 2025 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity The past few years... View Details

11 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

do you think the Business & Environment Initiative is an important part of the HBS ecosystem? Environmental issues are by nature general management issues, with implications for every aspect of the View Details

Business of Emerging Markets

my doctoral thesis for publication, and shared my findings on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge website with a more general audience, which has generated interest for... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Reinventing the Future of Business

investments in innovations that enhance student learning and that hold the potential to generate solutions to important issues facing business and society. Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age... View Details

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2011
News

Undergrads Tackle Business Research

For the first time this summer, HBS is sponsoring a ten-week program for fifteen Harvard undergrads to assist faculty with research projects. The Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO) will introduce “an incredible pool of undergraduates to View Details

24 May 2022

Top Business Schools Discuss: Trailblazing the Path to Business School

Darden School of Business to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of first generation & low income students in business school and beyond. The event will feature a moderated panel discussion... View Details

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

10 Sep 2020
News

The Business of Access

her business know-how—revenue generation and growth in the private sector—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in social services. She was brought aboard to assist San Mateo–based Shelter Network implement a... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

employers. It is not that no attempts were made, in the meantime, to discover an underlying general theory that would inform the tasks of a manager. But the search for a theoretical model capable of explaining effective View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

June 2024
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Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis

A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation

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17 Jan 2020
In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

With CEO turnover climbing, many business leaders are trying to hone skills that will keep them at the helm longer. We asked professors from Harvard Business School’s General... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 May 2020
News

The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Business History Business History 2014 Book Business History By: Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones This volume contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the... View Details

14 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Brian Tomlin, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

diligently to integrate the principles of sustainability into business education, to disseminate cutting edge research, and to bolster career resources at the school. We think that environmental issues are by nature View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

08 Jun 2015
News

Leading a family business

After Phyllis Papani Godwin (HRPBA 1949) inherited the family electrical supply business, she quickly learned the ropes, developed a collaborative leadership style, and expanded the company into 28 locations. (Published June 2015) View Details

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