Personal Ethics In Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academic circles; others are working more quietly behind the scenes to effect change. “The university is a nonprofit institution. It has a charter from the state, and it exists in large part to serve society,” says David A. Moss, the Paul... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2022
News

Deep Purpose with Ranjay Gulati, Professor at Harvard Business School and Best-Selling Author

03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

altogether. In the business realm, the global pet care market is estimated at a quarter of a trillion dollars. Yet paradoxically, despite this increasing ethical clarity on the... View Details

16 Jun 2016
Blog Post

Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own View Details

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

honing different and yet comparably important skills for business and policy global leaders. Born and raised in Kampala, Uganda, I was probably predisposed to develop passions contiguous to the phenomenon... View Details

December 2007 (Revised February 2017)
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Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony

By: David E. Bell, Brian Milder and Mary Shelman

Vegpro, a horticulture company, is Kenya's largest exporter of fresh vegetables and flowers to top supermarkets in the U.K. and Europe. In 2007, Vegpro's business is threatened by growing consumer concern about the environmental impact of food production and transport,... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Developing Countries and Economies; Ethics; Food; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Kenya; Europe; United Kingdom

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June 2003
Case

Judo in Action

Contains four short stories about small firms challenging large firms. Illustrates some of the ideas that have been termed "judo strategy." In each case, one can argue that the small firm attempts to use the large firm's size and incumbency to constrain the large firm... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Competitive Advantage

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12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

and many responsibilities that aren't from the same person I am at home and in my church on Sunday, and I don't know how to navigate that transition.'" Business is made up... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

as a consultant. They continue to inform my own personal worldview of capitalism, and my own role in shaping society as a future business leader. SBS - Kathy Choi Consultant,... View Details

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

Choose a subject area: Digital Transformation Marketing Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in... View Details

14 Aug 2017
News

Leaders Born in Darkness

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

(Editor's note: This is the last in a series of four articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

taking their business with them. With her husband as a business partner, Glover is well aware of the way her personal and professional lives overlap, but to her, it's all quite... View Details

10 Oct 2013
News

Business Leaders as our Missing Middle?

31 May 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Geoffrey G. Jones

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