Enterprise Risk Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2007 (Revised November 2009)
Case

Greenpeace

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jordan Mitchell

Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes starkly different. Compares the models of two dissimilar... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations; Business Strategy

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01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details

Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States

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07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly managed firms in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Social Enterprise Initiative's blog. JULY 29 In the fall of 2019, Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) and Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) launched HBS's Black Investment Club to address underrepresentation of Black investors in VC, PE, and investment View Details

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

forthcoming Management Science Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of nonpracticing entities... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment.... View Details

09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

because the professional was not licensed. We also don’t have data to measure risks that do not directly affect the consumer making the hiring decision, but may adversely affect their neighbors. Lagace: What are you working on next?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

14 Aug 2019
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Leading from Within

look at business development and values, management practices and ethics, and their roles. And that’s all well and good, says Lim, in that CEOs typically walk away renewed and clear-headed about their next steps within their... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the health of communities around the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary... View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

syllabus 5-6 hrs Module 1 Marketing in the Digital Era Explore digital technologies and innovations introduced by direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies, their associated marketing risks and challenges, and how to reshape your marketing... View Details

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

guests also talked about the leadership challenges of finding vaccine candidates, expediting clinical trials, and the need to invest billions without a clear sense of outcomes. Mango described it as a “portfolio strategy to manage... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

the challenges of transforming American community hospital systems. Can be used to teach: the evolution of structure, organization, and strategy of U.S.-based community hospital systems; integrated practice units and care cycles; View Details