Natural Resources - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

public and private sectors learn from the events of the past few months? In the public realm, Sandeep Yadav concluded, “It is only by sharing resources globally that we can distribute the burden of fighting the next Black Swan.” The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 0ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

best practice, its rivals tend to copy it quickly. Best practice competition eventually leads to competitive convergence, with many companies doing the same things in the same ways. Customers end up making decisions based on price, undermining industry profitability.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter

16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

Source: iPhoto Startup founders with a hands-on management style are more likely to retain employees and see their firms thrive, new research shows. The results are particularly applicable to knowledge-intensive technology firms, where human talent is the main View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

self-select yourself out of an opportunity because you think you might not qualify.” HOME REGION New York, NY UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of Florida PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Zarbee's Naturals (Johnson & Johnson), General Mills HBS... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

06 Jul 2023
News

Home Economics

In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

year after graduating from Princeton with a degree in history. As a consultant, she evaluated community development programs throughout Indonesia and helped rural women build microenterprises. The resourcefulness of the women impressed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature makes three assertions: the U.S. did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them for the value of their assets, and the oil... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

climate, clean energy, clean cars, and protecting natural resources, most recently as undersecretary of the California Natural Resources Agency (CRNA). Before CNRA, Barranco... View Details

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

School Case 813-145 CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot? In July 2012, the cofounders of CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley startup that protects websites and accelerates their traffic, are considering the implications of five employees' resignations over the prior three months.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

have created. Or is this all too manipulative in its nature to contemplate? For years, research in the service sector by my colleagues and myself has suggested that great service organizations are especially good at hiring for attitude... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

experience, autonomy. These are naturally definers of where an individual should be placed within a salary range. Those differences should be easily explained and verifiable upon request." Dan S. pointed out that disclosing pay... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Students.) In planning for a specific case session, instructors may be able to draw on published teaching notes and on teaching plans previously developed by others or themselves. They may also enjoy the support of teaching groups and individual colleagues. These View Details

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

founders or senior partners. Significantly, they are more likely to be penalized than white-owned funds when they underperform, and they are less likely to reach fundraising goals. The opaque, risky nature of private equity—whose American... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

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Research Computing Services - Faculty & Research

and matching Review of papers and assistance addressing reviewers' comments Identification and testing of new methods and approaches The expertise of RCS staff includes: Statistical analysis Predictive modeling Machine learning Natural... View Details

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Events - Business History

– 12:00 pm: Anne Ruderman, LSE, and Marlous van Waijenburg, HBS 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm: Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm: Carolyn Roberts, Yale University Oct 4 04 Oct 2021 Business History Seminar: Global Business and Society “Human View Details

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Projects - Business History

of firms and brands. Emphasizing ways that businesses can create value for their societies, the project provides a unique resource for research and teaching. From the beginning it was envisioned as a public good, designed to be available... View Details

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