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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Legislation ; Recruitment ; Innovation and Invention ; Disruptive Innovation ; Knowledge ; Resource Allocation ; Industry Clusters ; Infrastructure ; Family Ownership ; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving ;... View Details

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

that fund young businesses are owned by Black or Hispanic founders and partners, traditionally the most likely source of capital for minority business ventures, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

14 Apr 2020
News

HBR Announces 61st Annual HBR McKinsey Award Winners

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

off Massachusetts' coastline is the subject of HBS professor Richard Vietor's case study "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." The case highlights the challenges and opportunities that face green businesses as they attempt to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

discussed German incubator Rocket Internet, which clones successful business models and sites like eBay and Groupon around the world. Rocket Internet, a buzz company on campus that has attracted a number of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Gulati, the problem starts with corporate growing pains. When businesses are small, they organize themselves into clear functional units, tapping experts in each respective function to make sure each unit excels. But as they grow, these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September–October 2018
Article

The Paradox of Responsive Authoritarianism: How Civic Activism Spurs Environmental Penalties in China

By: Christopher Marquis and Yanhua Bird

Recognizing the need to better understand institutional change processes in authoritarian states, which play an increasingly prominent role in the world economy, we examine the efficacy of civic activism aimed at spurring governmental action concerning the... View Details

Keywords: Civic Activism; Authoritarianism; Regulation; Corporate Sustainability; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Social Issues; Change; China

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September 2010 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Better World Books

By: Michael I. Norton, Fiona Wilson, Jill Avery and Thomas J. Steenburgh

Better World Books, a young start-up, provides a socially conscious alternative to Amazon, collecting and selling used books to keep them out of the waste stream, while donating a portion of their profits to support global literacy efforts. The case presents an... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Online Technology; Retail Industry

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

share best practices across the business units and shared service units. The meeting was called the "Balanced Scorecard Conference," but, of course, the meeting was about the division's strategy and its execution. When the major... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

local, regional, and national competitiveness. “Former entrepreneurs offer a positive impression of what it's like to own your own business.” In recent research, Harvard Business School professor Ramana Nanda analyzes these deeper layers... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2023
News

Educating Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan HBS is constantly taking steps, both small and large, to refine and improve the way it prepares its students and program participants to lead—both in today’s world and in a future we can’t yet imagine. By being creative, nimble,... View Details

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New Markets and the Search for a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Regional Winners - Alumni

CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Grensol Grensol is unlocking the potential of recycling waste by up-cycling to valuable raw materials that would otherwise end up incinerated or landfilled. Their innovative space-saving solution is designed for... View Details

December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Codevasf

By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred

With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil

February 2016 (Revised September 2020)
Case

T-Mobile in 2013: The Un-Carrier

By: John Beshears, Francesca Gino, Jonathan Lee and Sean (Yixiang) Wang

By 2013, the U.S. wireless industry was in the midst of a costly transition. As consumers began to embrace more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Positioning; Competition; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; United States