Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system. I had always been interested... View Details

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

environment of scientific and industrial expansion. Venture funding occurred more widely in the United States than it ever had done before. While the roots of the American venture capital industry are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

industry. The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised Author:Julie Wulf Publication:California Management Review 55, no. 1 (fall 2012) Abstract For decades, management consultants and the popular business press... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor

a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50334 2016 Business History Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey By: Jones, Geoffrey,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Jeremy C. Stein & Adi Sunderam AUG 2017 In this forthcoming brookings paper, researchers from Harvard Business School and the... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

he continued, businesses can be 'raced' by drivers whose peripheral vision has failed. "They could see the clear track ahead of them as they initially led their markets but failed to notice the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

that provided the impetus for the startup to take off. “Having the space and enabling conditions to work on a business in a community of other founders was the catalyst,” Theuerkauf says. The cofounders also... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 18 Feb 2015
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U.S. Competitiveness: An Economy Doing Half Its Job

The HBS U.S. Competitiveness Projects report on the most recent alumni survey highlighted a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are many small businesses. Professor Jan Rivkin will focus on aspects of the U.S.... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

entrepreneurship immediately, or acquire more business experience first? When you feel ready to be a founder, you'll need: An idea for a problem to be solved And/or a team of partners who have a marketable idea, or have skills/experiences... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

emergence of stage 2 will have fallen into place. The first will be robust platforms that facilitate the creation of user-generated content. The second will be the emergence of a user network, whose analogues in other industries include eBay View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

safe, and with sudden shifts in customer behavior. Of course, the business environment was changing rapidly before 2020. Globalization, new technologies, climate change, View Details

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

employee morale, followed by business relations and reputation, and then regulatory relations. I find that who initiated the bribery act, how it... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2006 (Revised February 2009)
Case

China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You

By: F. Warren McFarlan, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo and Yan Yang

Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively small branch network when compared to its larger competitors, CMB uses an... View Details