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- Jul 2010
- Article
Clusters and Entrepreneurship
Industries located in regions with strong clusters (i.e. a large presence of other related industries) experience higher growth in new business formation and start-up... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised April 2017)
- Supplement
Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
In late 2016, Bridj was expanding its digital platform to help address urban mobility problems faced by cities across the country and the world. Its founder and CEO, Matt George, weighed up several possible strategies for growth as he aimed to responsibly build the... View Details
Keywords: Mobility; Digital; Mobile App; Mobile; Data; Platform; Organization; Startup; Start-up Growth; Startup Management; Responsibility; Corporate Responsibility; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Transportation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; United States; District of Columbia; Massachusetts; Kansas; Mexico
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City." Harvard Business School Supplement 317-047, January 2017. (Revised April 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
added. The HRPBA curriculum had many similarities to the Harvard Business School MBA program. Weekly evening lectures featured business leaders, who discussed with students the problems they encountered in... View Details
- Fast Answer
Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)
size. Look at the American Community Survey for granular data relating to employment, transportation to work, housing, expenditures, etc. US Census: Business & Economy - A wide range of variables... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter. As he sees it, important realities dotting the landscape for business can be grouped into 4 basic areas: cultural, administrative/political, geographic, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
that in the global village the villagers drive the economy should be more successful." Flavius Chircu said that "... business leaders should get together with political leaders and figure out where... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
economics.” Edwin Land, "Chairman's Letter," Polaroid Corporation Annual Report 1978, March 23, 1979 93 Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, Inc., observed in 1985 that Edwin Land "saw the intersection of art View Details
- August 2016
- Supplement
Videojet (B)
In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high tech printer just launched in the market. The new product exemplified the first real instance in which the Videojet... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Processes; Conglomerates; Diversification; Relational Contracts; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Sadun, Raffaella, Bharat Anand, and Eric Van den Steen. "Videojet (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-410, August 2016.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
Photos by Webb Chappell Related Links Who Was George F. Baker? Priscilla Anderson demonstrating photo conservation techniques. Stepping into the workaday world of Priscilla Anderson is like taking a step back in time. While most... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 21 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas Company Payments to Foreign Governments
- 01 May 2025
- HBS Seminar
Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Faculty & Research - Business History
Faculty & Research Faculty & Research Harvard Business School faculty members have made notable contributions to the history of business. Faculty research is diverse, based in several of the School’s units, View Details
- November 2014
- Teaching Plan
Diageo: Innovating for Africa
By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman and Andrew Otazo
This teaching plan is designed to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of launching products and building businesses in developing markets. View Details
Keywords: Africa; Diageo; Nigeria; Kenya; Guiness; Sourcing; Supply Chain; Business Government Relations; Developing Markets; General Management; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Marketing; Developing Countries and Economies; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nigeria; United Kingdom
Bell, David E., Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman, and Andrew Otazo. "Diageo: Innovating for Africa." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 515-056, November 2014.
- Editorial
Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors
By: Christina Rehnberg, George Serafeim and Brian Tomlinson
Rather than requiring less short-term information, the key to combating short-termism is to encourage companies to share more information about their long-term plans. Analysis of companies that have done so suggests that long-term plans are not mere marketing... View Details
Keywords: CEO; Investor Relations; Disclosure; Long-term Growth; Investing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Strategy; Corporate Disclosure
Rehnberg, Christina, George Serafeim, and Brian Tomlinson. "Why CEOs Should Share Their Long-Term Plans with Investors." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 19, 2018).
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
displaced, and millions left without electricity and water. Railways and roads were destroyed, and 383,000 buildings damaged—including a nuclear... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- April 2013
- Teaching Note
New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
This case involves the founding and early life of a new bank enterprise in San Francisco with a commitment to the cause of sustainability. It illustrates the opportunities and challenges of banking on values and of specifying and making explicit the practical... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- HBS Seminar