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  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

kill only one. While such damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t ethical dilemmas have traditionally been the focus of public debates about AV algorithm design, they are the wrong way to look at the issue, say De Freitas and his co-authors,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

courses, and to finish." 22 018, 118 HBS made a concerted effort to publicize that the school had opened its doors to women, a fact women in undergraduate studies or the workplace did not necessarily know, and that many business... View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • Web

US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

been reached, so it is a good alternative to the H-1B. Dependents of H-1B1 visa holders, classified as H-4, are not eligible to work in the United States in H-4 status. + – E-1 Treaty Trader / E-2 Treaty Investor These visa categories are for individuals to carry out... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

School, is an expert on global supply chain and co-wrote an HBS case study, revised in 2019, on Dollar General, one of the largest dollar store operators, shortly before it was acquired by New York investment firm KKR. Shih discusses the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • Web

Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Summer R. Jackson : Runner-up for the 2024 Administrative Science Quarterly Dissertation Award for “(Not) paying for Diversity: Repugnant View Details
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services
  • 06 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

of the 75 percent of his classmates who did not go on to college after high school. Ameen has spent much of his time in college working to change the social status quo. While an undergraduate at Columbia University, he worked in Harlem, teaching in View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information

By: David Freiberg, DG Park, George Serafeim and T. Robert Zochowski
As an organization’s environmental impact has become a central societal consideration, thereby affecting industry and organizational competitiveness, interest in measuring and analyzing environmental impact has increased. We develop a methodology to derive comparable... View Details
Keywords: Environment; Impact; Measurement; Environmental Ratings; Corporate Valuation; Financial Materiality; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Valuation
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  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

an executive who understood technology, knew how to market it, and had the leadership skills to take on difficult challenges, she also focused on paving the way for more women. “I see it as a virtuous circle,” she says. “People help you,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 2022
  • Book

Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

By: George Serafeim
The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

We not only... View Details
Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

pieces you want to protect-the component on which you'll build the value-capturing part of your business-and the knowledge that you're going to put into the public domain. Let your users go to town on the open parts of the system, but be... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

A Taste of Tradition

Kikkoman Corporation, whose roots stretch back to the seventeenth century, when the Mogi family began soy sauce production in Japan. The company was incorporated in 1917 as Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd., went public in 1949, and changed its name... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • September 2024
  • Case

InfraCredit and the Project Inception Facility

By: John Macomber, Namrata Arora and Maagatha Kalavadakken
Around the world, large infrastructure projects are frequently stymied by the high cost and high uncertainty of the project inception phase: the research and engineering and planning prior to financial close and start of construction. Could there be a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Cost; Cash Flow; Capital; Assets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Insurance; Energy; Product Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Credit; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

facilitated research investment in an area of significant social value, patents promoted disclosure. Our findings highlight the importance of complementarities between prize and patent-based incentives in the design of innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

It's academic. (Not!)

School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services