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Policy - Business & Environment

reached the same conclusion. Exxon’s 1982 estimate of rising C02 and temperatures match actual measurements today. The Role of Business in Climate Policy By 1988 climate change was widely recognized by scientists and the View Details
  • 20 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Shareholder Value

By: Adi Ignatius, Lynn Paine, Mihir Desai and Carola Frydman
A roundtable conversation appraises the 50-year reign of shareholder primacy and the growing backlash against it today.

The idea that maximizing shareholder value takes legal and practical precedence above all else first came to prominence in the 1970s. The... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Value Maximization; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

    Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

    * Top 10 Technology Books of 2020 (Forbes)
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    * 9 Best Business Books for 2020... View Details

    • 27 Oct 2021
    • News

    Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Richard Walton Dies at the Age of 90

    • Web

    Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

    This course is part of the CLIMB program and Strategy track. Introduction to Business Strategy ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Strategy... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2020
    • Blog Post

    How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage

    build a business he loves. After graduating from Boston University, Linzmeyer joined General Electric in their financial management program which gave him the opportunity to develop his financial skills and... View Details
    • 13 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

    businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified... View Details
    Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
    • 01 Dec 1998
    • News

    Managing the Business of Life

    interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they are managing the View Details
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • News

    The New Global Business Manager

    There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
    Keywords: Management
    • 14 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Summit: China in the Global Economy

    Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: William C. Kirby, HBS Faculty... View Details
    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby
    • March 2025
    • Article

    Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures

    By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
    The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
    Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
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    • 01 Feb 2018
    • News

    Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

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    Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

    segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. More recently, some companies have begun advocating for government policies to address climate change. Electricity Shifting to sustainable electricity... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

    will provide financial aid for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The gift reflects the Boston-based donors’ desire to bridge the worlds of... 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 Society Now Offering Launching Tech... View Details
    • May 2012 (Revised November 2015)
    • Case

    The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)

    By: David A. Garvin and Annelena Lobb
    In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.–based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Change Management; Media And Publishing; Digital Convergence; Strategy Development; Business Models; Information Publishing; Online Technology; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry
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    • 04 Sep 2020
    • Video

    Making a Difference in Health Care at Harvard Business School

      Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business

      When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array... View Details

      • 22 Jul 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

      Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
      Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat