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  • 2017
  • Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
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  • March 2012
  • Article

Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team's motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Performance
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  • June 2011 (Revised June 2013)
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Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Jeffrey Hu and Runjiao Xu
In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main business segments—property development, property investment/management, and other real estate related businesses. From... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Diversification; Property; Policy; State Ownership; Business Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Real Estate Industry; Beijing
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  • 2010
  • Article

Zwischen Familienerbe und globalem Markt. Eigentum und Management von großen westdeutschen Familienunternehmen im Wandel (1960-2008)

"Between Family Heritage and Global Market. Changes in Ownership and Management of Large West-German Family Firms (1960-2008)" Large family firms fall between two theoretical accounts. They neither follow the development path described by Alfred D. Chandler nor do they... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Ownership; Germany
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us...)

By: William A. Sahlman
The financial crisis of 2008-9 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis
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  • July 2008 (Revised January 2010)
  • Case

Affinity Labs, Inc.

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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  • May 2009
  • Article

The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

By: Josh Lerner
Economists have long seen the patent system as a crucial lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Business and Government Relations
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interactive Communication; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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AMP 170 - General Management: Processes and Action

The Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP) helps drive corporate performance by honing individual capabilities to the highest level of performance. The result is a... View Details

  • May 2023
  • Article

Decarbonizing Health Care: Engaging Leaders in Change

By: Vivian S. Lee, Kathy Gerwig, Emily Hough, Kedar Mate, Robert Biggio and Robert S. Kaplan
Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate. In addition to their roles as responders to and victims of extreme weather events, health care organizations have an obligation to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Net-zero Emissions; Climate Change; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 2015
  • Book

Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective

By: Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati and Michael Tushman
The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling—reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However,... View Details
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  • Web

Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

Iberoamerican Academy of Management Humanistic Leadership and Support for the Sustainable Development Goals MAR 21 2023 Book Faculty Research Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership By: Geoffrey Jones... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

mobile phone penetration, universal availability of unique ID systems, and evolving privacy and data protection laws. It builds on global best practices and promotes the adoption of human-centered design principles, data minimization, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Growing on the Job - Alumni

course will help you learn why goals matter, the different types of goals, and how to align your goals with your organization’s key objectives. Go to course Similar Resources Executive Education Programs for individuals and organizations designed to help experienced... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2024
  • News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

the Harvard Innovation Labs, they offered the mic to any founders who wanted to give a 30-second pitch. “We had about 8 founders step up to talk about their companies or projects and a current need,” says Bishop. “That was fun, and exposed the inspiring work of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley

    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • November 1986 (Revised December 1992)
    • Case

    Kentucky Fried Chicken (Japan) Ltd.

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Describes the internationalization of the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food chain, focusing on KFC's entry into Japan. An entrepreneurial country general manager, Lou Weston, battles numerous problems to establish the business and is eventually highly successful.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Market Entry and Exit; Strategic Planning; Agency Theory; Perspective; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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    • Web

    Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

    unit-led efforts, spur new activities that leverage the School’s constituencies and resources, form strong relationships with Harvard University and with our Allston and Boston neighbors, and foster a shared vision of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our... View Details
    • Web

    Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

    see our documentation here . Miscellaneous How can I transfer data using HBS resources? Please see information here . How do I connect to the HBS VPN? Please see information here . I would like to purchase data; whom should I contact? Many user-friendly, web-based... View Details
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    ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Affiliated Organizations... Affiliated Organizations & Institutions ICHOM VBHCD... View Details