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  • October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

this is due to naïveté and hubris—the notion that their idea simply cannot fail. But savvy entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a career. Even failed businesses yield future View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Research Summary

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Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Adoption; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry
  • Article

Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
Homophily in social relations is widely documented. We know that homophily results from both individual preferences and uneven opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Interactive Communication; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Behavior; Internet and the Web; Theory; Information Technology Industry
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    Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

    Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details

    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

    For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
    Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • Web

    MBA Experience - Leadership

    MBA Experience MBA Experience At Harvard Business School, students exercise the leadership skills they will practice in business and beyond, and leave with lessons in leadership that are practical, priceless... View Details
    • Web

    About - Race, Gender & Equity

    About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details
    • 16 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16, 2008

    platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
    • 25 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

    psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • April 2012 (Revised June 2012)
    • Case

    HP Labs in Singapore

    By: Willy Shih, Pankaj Agarwal and Christine Chi
    When HP established a branch of its corporate research lab in Singapore, the government played a key role through its Economic Development Board (EDB). Chris Whitney, the lab's director, sought to generate revenue from the lab's innovations, making it financially... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Revenue; Technology Industry; Singapore
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    Europe - Global

    Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Thinking Ahead

    As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    children looking for love. She’ll also answer the ultimate question: Can money buy love? Her answer may surprise you. Skydeck Podcast Spotting Financial Market Bubbles Professor Robin Greenwood + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, View Details
    • 06 May 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

    manufacturer required. Indeed, the trend toward customers as innovators has the power to completely transform industries. In the semiconductor business, it has led to a custom-chip market that has grown to more than $15 billion. The View Details
    Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Opening Up or Shutting Down? The Effects of Multiple Identities on Problem Solving

    By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
    Across three studies, I investigate the distinct effects of multiple identity conflict and enhancement within people on two crucial aspects of resolving problems with others: integrative behavior and openness. The results of two studies support the hypotheses that... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Conflict Management; Identity; Integration
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    Ways to Give Today - Alumni

    International Giving Gifts to HBS from alumni and friends living outside the United States may be directed to one of our affiliated charitable entities in order to qualify for a tax deduction or a tax credit. FRANCE Centre de Recherche Européen de la Harvard View Details
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    A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    question of the link between financial incentives and output, the Hawthorne researchers found that a worker might feel rewarded if she had pleasant associations with her co-workers and that this might mean more to her than a little extra... View Details
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    Corporate Reputation

    By: Stephen A. Greyser
    Stephen A. Greyser is undertaking an empirical analysis of corporate reputation based on interviews conducted by Opinion Research Corporation with more than four thousand executives in nineteen countries. His study is examining public awareness of, familiarity with,... View Details