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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
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

How Wicked Problems Drive Business Performance: A Review of the Academic Literature

By: Caroline Adelson, Charlotte Kuller, Cate Tompkins, Ellora Sarkar, Samantha Price and Marco Iansiti
Recent years have seen a rise in the number of businesses engaged in the pursuit of “purposeful” activities – that is, activities that engage with the broader community in ways that expand beyond the pursuit of shareholder value. Many of these activities involve... View Details
Keywords: Wicked Problems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Performance
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Transportation - Business & Environment

business leaders that recognize shareholder value is irrelevant if the planet cannot be sustained long enough to realize financial gains. Every day, I rely on HBS frameworks for analysis View Details
  • November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
  • Background Note

Business as Stakeholder in Public Education: A History of Business Efforts to Improve Public Schools in the United States

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
Explores seven roles businesses and business leaders have played with respect to U.S. public education reform historically and today: "owners" helping set the agenda; "investors" donating funds; "customers" hiring graduates; "experts" contributing management know-how;... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Education; Performance Improvement; Business and Community Relations; United States
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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

an "invisible hand" that was largely beyond the control of individual firms. Competitive theory has been advanced at Harvard Business School, shown here under construction. The scope for strategy as a way to control market... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Business in Global Society - Alumni

HBS Fund supports core priorities and new initiatives, and donors have the option to direct their gift specifically to business in global society . To learn about leadership... View Details
  • February 7, 2023
  • Editorial

Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations: They Must Focus on Management as a Calling

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Many management students today are concerned about the mounting threats of climate change, income inequality, health care, and more. They increasingly see business as a place to make a difference in the world. Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Social Issues; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose
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  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

In 1926, C.P. Biddle, an assistant dean at Harvard Business School, provided one framing of what was, at the time, the highly contested question of whether and why business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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  • November 2018
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Governance Transition at Anadolu Group

By: Paul M. Healy and Esel Y. Cekin
Kamil Yazici and Izzet Ozilhan founded and built Anadolu Group Holding—a family business that grew into a multi-billion-dollar regional powerhouse. For 57 years they were equal partners in running the company. They then handed over a leadership role to a next... View Details
Keywords: Family-managed Business; Professionally-run Company; Second-generation; Third-generation; Governance; Governance Changes; Succession Planning; Corporate Culture; Shareholders; Board Of Directors; Long-term Sustainability; Conglomerate; Family Business; Corporate Governance; Change Management; Management Succession; Leadership; Transition; Organizational Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

most likely to occur," Toffel says. (In related research, Pierce and Toffel have investigated two other factors associated with leniency of vehicle testing facilities: the other View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
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Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks may have retained assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, and also may have engaged in long term attempts to block survivors' ability to recover those assets after World War... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Banking And Insurance; U.s. History; Germany; Europe; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Germany; United States; Switzerland
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  • 17 Sep 2018
  • News

The Business of Being Belichick

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

hrs/week Pay by August 28 $1,850 Certificate Business Strategy Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee Formulate strategies to give your organization a competitive advantage, using a proven framework that creates value for customers, employees,... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2023, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business View Details
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Participants learn to evaluate trade-offs and align, prioritize, and formulate strategic initiatives for the greatest business impact. Related... View Details
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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online

3 Courses Credential of Readiness (CORe) Designed to help you achieve fluency in the language of business, CORe is a business fundamentals program that combines Business Analytics, Economics for Managers,... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs

By: Kyle Myers, Lauren Lanahan and Evan E. Johnson
Small businesses have long supplied a disproportionate share of major innovations in the United States. We review a centerpiece policy on this topic: the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We trace its legislative history and summarize program... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Innovation and Invention; Government Legislation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business and Government Relations
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

and assessments, which is in fact the core business of my company. Anna Ngarachu Data Analyst Read more learner stories * Source: 2022 surveys and course data All FAQs View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

and external stakeholders. The program was developed by leading Harvard Business School faculty and is delivered in an active learning environment based on the HBS signature... View Details