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- February 2009 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Marquee: The Business of Nightlife
By: Anita Elberse, Ryan Barlow and Sheldon Wong
In December 2008, nightlife impresario Noah Tepperberg is celebrating the fifth anniversary of his New York City nightclub Marquee. While most clubs are over within their first one-and-a-half years, Tepperberg has succeeded in keeping Marquee one of NYC's hottest clubs... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Cost; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; New York (city, NY)
Elberse, Anita, Ryan Barlow, and Sheldon Wong. "Marquee: The Business of Nightlife." Harvard Business School Case 509-019, February 2009. (Revised November 2010.)
- February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (B)
By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
The case presents ExxonMobil's response to growing pressure to disclose how climate change will impact their business. This includes multiple asset impairments and losing a proxy vote to shareholders to increase climate change related reporting. Supplements the (B)... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Energy Sources; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Governance Compliance; Climate Change; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry; United States
Serafeim, George, Shiva Rajgopal, and David Freiberg. "ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-047, February 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Industrial Revolution witnessed the founding of many elite business schools in the United States, beginning with the Wharton School in 1881. Harvard Business School, founded in... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
in captivity? Three professors in Harvard Business School's Entrepreneurial Management unit who focus on the study of creativity recognize the romantic allure of believing it's a rare quality bestowed on a... View Details
- 20 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business
differentiating among them. The effect of this approach can be profound. IBM, for example, adopted a life-cycle approach to innovation, developing the leadership and organizational capabilities needed at different business stages:... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
James ("Brad") McGee (MBA 1987) cofounded iCrowd to bring entrepreneurs together in online communities to network and to help provide the financial and commercial resources businesses need to thrive. He launched the crowdfunding website... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
HBS Wins Green Business Award
HBS Operations has received a 2010 City of Boston Green Business Award in recognition of the numerous green technologies used at Shad Hall, the School’s fitness and recreation facility and its showcase for sustainability. Energy-saving... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
teams to spend some of their time brainstorming about how they can help make a difference to their communities, now and for times to come. This can unite and inspire people, and it might create good ideas for innovation when attention... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big View Details
- February 2013 (Revised May 2014)
- Case
Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012
By: Boris Groysberg, Kerry Herman and Annelena Lobb
Eight women had first enrolled in Harvard Business School's traditional MBA program in 1963. By 2013, the number of women in the MBA classroom had reached 40%. The 50th anniversary of women's enrollment in the traditional MBA program gave HBS Dean Nitin Nohria the... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, Kerry Herman, and Annelena Lobb. "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012." Harvard Business School Case 413-013, February 2013. (Revised May 2014.)
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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Leadership Shawn Cole Initiative Chair; John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better View Details
- 14 Jun 2013
- Talk
Why Business Can Be Good at Solving Social Problems
Why do we turn to nonprofits, NGOs and governments to solve society's biggest problems? Michael Porter admits he's biased, as a business school professor, but he wants you to hear his case for letting business try to solve massive problems like climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Creating Shared Value; Strategy; Value Creation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Scotland
Porter, Michael E. "Why Business Can Be Good at Solving Social Problems." TEDGlobal, TED, London, United Kingdom, June 14, 2013.
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
As Ban Ki-moon begins his tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations, the world's poor continue to cry out for help and hope. One-sixth of the world's population lives in "deep poverty"—generally defined as surviving on... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 29 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
- 01 May 2020
- News