Filter Results:
(4,000)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,497)
- People (22)
- News (2,532)
- Research (4,000)
- Events (26)
- Multimedia (146)
- Faculty Publications (2,586)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(8,497)
- People (22)
- News (2,532)
- Research (4,000)
- Events (26)
- Multimedia (146)
- Faculty Publications (2,586)
Sort by
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
Harvard Business School’s Africa Research Center (ARC) and a member of the Finance Unit at HBS. My MBA elective course is called Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks. This winter, my fellow HBS researchers... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
a factory in a low-cost location in Asia? Such a move over the next five to seven years would be full of risk, especially considering LEGO has had a checkered history of expansion—one such effort almost led... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
three HBS faculty members with various perspectives on the issue provide some insights on these questions. A Sense Of Purpose "I see the movement to incorporate more of a spiritual feeling in View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
your biggest buckets of cost and rethinking those strategically in ways that give your customers something they value," notes Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at Harvard View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
since the effects we find on growth over the medium term are very significant. Q: Do you think the recent commitment of the G-20 to contribute $1 trillion into the global economy will have an effect on a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
Date: January 9-10, 2008 Faculty Chairs: Josh Lerner, William Sahlman Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Venture Capital What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The VC Conference is one in a series View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because they're concerned about repercussions, but because View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
State Street Global Advisers is responding the expanding influence of impact investing. What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance A new book links the fundamentals View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
not just because it’s ‘free.’ You’ve left completely unaddressed the key point that many, many companies use other MS products, particularly Outlook/Exchange email, and that using Teams simplifies the IT and business management View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
Kuemmerle, who has studied more than fifty start-ups in twenty countries, says entrepreneurs today should take a litmus test of five questions (See sidebar). In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove... View Details