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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
regarding herbal patents. (They explain their findings in the paper Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms.) A win/win situation is one in which the patentee successfully makes... View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
out of racial unrest, now a shining example of equitable entrepreneurship! Above all else, I am grateful I was able to learn from many on the ground who are working hard every day to help ensure our city’s prosperity reaches all. How did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
values of $5 billion, $50 billion, and even $500 billion. The impact of their creation will be a thousand times what I contributed. We are at the beginning of what will be a very long and prosperous future for Harvard in engineering.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
advise entrepreneurs not to ignore some of the old rules of doing business. "Companies still have to build competitive advantage and concentrate on efficient processes and quality products," they note. But by also mastering the new techniques of judo strategy, firms... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
innovations that can transform adversity and environmental waste into prosperity for climate-impacted communities in Nigeria. Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro is the Founder and CEO of MitiMeth, a company that uses water hyacinth, an invasive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
what excites me about being Dean of Harvard Business School, comes from these early experiences that demonstrated the incredibly powerful role that business plays as a contributor to the prosperity of society. Why did you make the switch... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
down; savings are up. Yet a simplistic credit-as-bogey outlook masks a more nuanced picture. From a different vantage, credit was an economic white knight. Easy credit fueled the prosperity of the past decade. American statesman Daniel... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
supply chain, for business strategy, and for the ways in which firms work with stakeholders. In fact, economic prosperity and growth depend to a large degree on the health of our ecosystem, and our goal is to make this as self-evident as... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
in the prosperous country, stimulates demand for products and services, and creates as many jobs as it fills, thereby not increasing unemployment. In the US, as the argument goes, it could also help address the economic shortfall in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
optimistic though: I believe that Greeks will soon realize, after initial disappointment once again at the failed promises of a new government, that democracy, an institution born in Greece, is compatible only with competition, meritocracy, and individual... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
interests, above our partisan interests—political conflict has often proved highly productive, and a great deal has been achieved. Today, we need to look hard at ourselves and our own political parties and make sure a strong and resilient democracy remains our first... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Capitalism.” Not a word was mentioned about the credit disaster facing our nation today. The article stresses the remarkable recent prosperity of capitalism, and points out some concerns. It does not speak to the abuses of the mortgage... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
says Shenkar. Her awareness of how precious and limited water can be began while growing up in Israel. The Middle East has prospered for millennia by making the most out of what relatively little water there is in the region. Since the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Guerrilla marketing involves being resourceful, doing more with less, thinking like an entrepreneur, and developing street smarts. Levinson and Neitlich show how to use these techniques to advance your career and prosper without being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
challenge ahead is to create a system that maintains and shares stable prosperity and economic growth equitably and globally. “Today,” he said, “we are being reminded of Keynes’s famous insight, that the market system is not always... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in the world. Our readers shared... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
done right, can lead to prosperity for everyone, for a greater society. Good leaders want a society where everyone prospers.” Over her career, Nick had realized the value of strong leaders and the destructive nature of poor leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg