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- 2008
- Book
On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- December 2024
- Case
Enerjisa Üretim: The Digital Era of Electricity Generation
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Sadika El Hariri
Launched in 2017, Enerjisa Üretim was one of Türkiye’s largest private sector electricity companies. In its early days, the company faced some financial and operational troubles. When İhsan Erbil Bayçöl, the current CEO of Enerjisa Üretim, joined the business in 2018,... View Details
Keywords: Turkey
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Sadika El Hariri. "Enerjisa Üretim: The Digital Era of Electricity Generation." Harvard Business School Case 625-022, December 2024.
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Dissertation: Equity Market Views and Digital Technology Investment in Non-IT Firms Advisors: Suraj Srinivasan (Chair), Paul M. Healy , Charles C.Y. Wang , and Shane M. Greenstein Hashim Zaman... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
available materiality classifications of sustainability topics, we develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping sustainability investments classified as material for each industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
example, how well consumers were able to recall a brand name after commercials have been run—but not much more. The effectiveness of marketing investments was rarely directly tied back to sales. This has completely changed with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- September–October 2023
- Article
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility
By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details
Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return
DesJardine, Mark R., Jody Grewal, and Kala Viswanathan. "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility." Organization Science 34, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 1716–1735.
- 21 Feb 2013
- HBS Seminar
Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University
Building A Culture of Health
This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Urban Water Partners (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia
The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in... View Details
Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Dar es Salaam; Massachusetts
Ramanna, Karthik, George Serafeim, and Aldo Sesia. "Urban Water Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-016, August 2010. (Revised January 2013.)
- Web
Managing the Future of Work
eldercare, it's in the best interest of employers to invest in fostering a care culture—one that attracts caregivers on the margins of the workforce and helps current employees succeed. The American Opportunity Index OCT 2024 The 2024... View Details
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
to sustain the School's need-blind admissions policy. Doering, a managing director at the Baupost Group, resides in London, where he focuses on European real estate investments for funds managed by the firm.... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
the bottom of the pyramid.” When companies incentivize hostility From his humble beginnings, Stavros studied at Duke University and found his way into private equity after graduating. One day, while sending wire transfers to equity owners of an View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
Before becoming a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) was a prospective lawyer, an investment manager, a nonprofit leader, and a tech program manager. Beyond her professional roles, Ramirez is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
portfolio would offer investors exposure to a basket of nine major hedge fund strategies. The DELTA strategy would be innovative in two ways. First, in terms of its structure, AQR would implement these underlying strategies using a well-defined View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
Before becoming a Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) was a prospective lawyer, an investment manager, a nonprofit leader, and a tech program manager. Beyond her professional roles, Ramirez is... View Details
- May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Yangcheng: AES in China
AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; China
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Yangcheng: AES in China." Harvard Business School Case 702-006, May 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
- September 2021
- Case
Brown Capital Management
By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Sarah Mehta
Set in July 2021, this case looks at several growth strategies under consideration at Brown Capital, the second-oldest Black-owned asset management firm in the U.S. Since its 1983 founding, Baltimore-based Brown Capital has specialized in small company growth... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversity; Race; Finance; Equity; Public Equity; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employee Ownership; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States; Maryland; Baltimore
Viceira, Luis M., Emily R. McComb, and Sarah Mehta. "Brown Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 222-002, September 2021.