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Events - Business & Environment

Events Events Apr 23 Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience + Networking Reception Organizers: Business and Environment Initiative; The Salata Institute for Climate and... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

was a big piece of that. Because India did not follow a similar extreme path it didn't need to embrace FDI quite as much. So that's a reasonable reason to expect low FDI levels. On the negative side, however, India, with its indigenous... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

protagonists to make critical decisions in the face of conflict, uncertainty, and ambiguity. There are some cases where I come to class extremely confident that my viewpoint is the only right one. In class, however, my stance swings like... View Details
  • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
  • Case

Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Business History - Faculty & Research

as its CEO through a tough time when troubles with the manufacturing of optical systems capable of handling extreme ultraviolet radiation held the business unit and their partners back. Aware of how dangerous hesitant business decisions... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

example by giving rewards for both individual and team performance. Without direct oversight, “Relationships can all too readily slide into cutthroat competition or totally collusive bonding. Either extreme will harm the firm's... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

extremely difficult in the past in developing countries, it’s because there is typically no silver-bullet solution. At the end of the day, it’s going to require different perspectives coming together and brainstorming and then... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

we're seeing in all sectors of health care is some movement away from these centers and toward the periphery. So instead of people going to the downtown medical center they might go to a retail clinic. They might increasingly have their care monitored from home. In its... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

our old ways of thinking with COVID.” Decision to adopt the model is a matter of equity Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, grew up in India where he says the travails of the extreme poor were always in sight. “Rich and... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 22 Sep 2023
  • News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Mehendale. I'm class of 2003, Section C. Specifically, one person who had a great impact on me was one of my mentors, Clay Christensen. I was extremely fortunate at school to have his tutelage and extremely... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

in my condo recently, I took the opportunity to reread Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book, The Black Swan. In it, he defines a Black Swan (always capitalized) as having three characteristics: “rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

extreme case was the Common Agricultural Policy, adopted in 1966, which severely restricted U.S. agricultural exports to Europe. However, within Europe, free trade was established between the member countries, even though nontariff... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

rapid improvements in economic value while also building sustainable advantage inherent in building organizational capability. The and/also is also the hardest approach and thus requires great will, skill, and wisdom. The alternative—an arbitrary and halfhearted mixing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

with her husband and their two beautiful sons. She has also been known to make extremely decadent chocolate truffles. Contact Informationtabbatello@hbs.edu Nancy Edmunds Teaching & Learning Assistant Biography Nancy Edmunds Teaching &... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer believes." Along with Michael Norton, professor of marketing, Avery explores those extremes in a recent HBS teaching note, Learning from Extreme Consumers. The researchers developed the concept as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding