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- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Perfecting the Project Pitch
reasons. "Some people just don't know how to talk about an idea. They'll give you tons of background information, and at the end of the five minutes, they're just getting around to the actual idea. It should be just the... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
sense it was all around us. It took a set of entrepreneurs to begin to make it happen. By the late 1990s, when I was teaching courses in global strategy, some of my Thai, Malaysian, and Singaporean students were perfectly aware of the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
looks overwhelmingly like NPEs are just targeting firms that are more likely to pay out” Known as Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs), the companies in the Baxter Building are located in Marshall for one reason: the federal courthouse next door. There, they bring View Details
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
meters below ground at which the miners were trapped in the aftermath of an explosion that left half a million tons of rock blocking the mine's entrance. The number of miners trapped (33), the hardness of the rock, the instability of the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
demonstrably bright future ahead. Like the talent point above, C-level executives at companies that were rocket ships at one point find themselves either laid off or disillusioned by their future prospects. That stretch VP of sales? Go... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Historically, though, such research has neglected to consider how firms are affected by major local events, whether they be planned (the Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup, for instance) or unplanned (an earthquake or hurricane). Marquis and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- February 2024
- Supplement
Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
By: George Serafeim
In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Entrepreneurial Finance; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo
Serafeim, George. "Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 124-705, February 2024.
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
to think the firm has failed rather than evolved. GETTING THE LABEL RIGHT How the firms dealt with labels, which often were attached to them by external sources like analysts or the media, also factored into a company’s success. As... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
soliciting feedback from its most loyal and vocal customers” As impressive as that accomplishment was, 1,000 customers is hardly enough to ensure long-run success. For that, these companies had to scale up dramatically, from 1,000 to over 1 million, which is the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
would you want your children to be these people? Defining your own yardstick for success can often be quite difficult, according to Stevenson. "A ton of books on success all say, 'Choose your target and shoot at it,'" he said.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
replacement to silver halide film in our core market?" By seeking to create high-priced, performance-competitive digital products, Kodak missed much of the disruptive growth driven by inexpensive... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
reinforces the role of uncertain prices in a cap-and-trade mechanism," Coles says. "It contrasts with a simple command-and-control approach to regulation that specifies maximum pollution levels allowed by industry, or a carbon... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
conjectured they would get a much more natural and powerful way of reaching a conclusion by creating a setting where the students actually go through some kind of competitive process to reach the same outcomes they would otherwise be... View Details
- April 1999 (Revised March 2002)
- Background Note
Aluminum Industry in 1994, The
After reaching all-time highs in excess of $2,500 per ton in 1988 and 1989, aluminum prices fall dramatically in the early 1990s as the former Soviet Union begins exporting far larger quantities of metal. By the beginning of 1994, the price has hit all-time lows (in... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Price; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Soviet Union
Corts, Kenneth S. "Aluminum Industry in 1994, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 799-129, April 1999. (Revised March 2002.)
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details