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9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Jun 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: June 26, 2019 - July 17, 2019 View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 06 Feb 2019
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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: February 6, 2019 - February 27, 2019 View Details

April–June 2012
Article

Hybrid Organizations: The Next Chapter in Sustainable Business

By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman

In this article, we describe how hybrid organizations are developing business models that are competitive and create positive social and environmental change. We discuss the distinctive characteristics of the hybrid business model, both conceptually and in practice. We... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Management; Social Enterprise

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04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

unusual application of an economic term delighted Christensen, a management professor known around HBS and the globe as both a brilliant business thinker and a deeply religious man. For more than a decade he has been a go-to consultant... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Apple's iPhone Revolution: Pioneering the Circular Economy

By: George Serafeim

When asked to identify an example of a circular economy business model that has generated billions in revenues for a company, ChatGPT, the famous chatbot that in 2022 rocked the world with its ability to perform a variety of tasks, immediately identified and... View Details

Keywords: Iphone; Smartphone; Waste Management; Recycling; Innovation; Product Upgrade; Product Life Cycle; Sustainability; Climate Impact; Digital; Business Model Innovation; Climate Change; Information Technology; Business Model; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

driving the wealth of nations. It also demonstrates that there has never been a single model for successful or unsuccessful capitalism. To give only one example, business and economic historians have often... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

2015
Chapter

The Fourth Wave: Business Management and Business Education in the Age of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld

Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research. Firms incorporate sustainability strategies into their core mission. University administrators promote sustainability as central to their curricula. Scholars pursue sustainability... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Natural Environment; Leading Change; Management Systems

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2010
Working Paper

Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States

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June 2013 (Revised January 2014)
Case

S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012

By: Luis Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

In June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a new joint venture called S&P Dow Jones... View Details

Keywords: Indexing; Business Model; Joint Ventures; Financial Markets; Standards; Financial Services Industry

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 13 Nov 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: November 13, 2019 - December 4, 2019 View Details

17 Feb 2011
News

Business Ready for 'Shared Values,' But Government Lags

February 2025
Case

Doing Business in Casablanca, Morocco

By: Karen G. Mills, Ahmed Dahawy and Choetsow Tenzin

This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Morocco. The case explores the various historical, cultural, and social factors that impact the business environment. It also highlights Morocco’s unique economy where cash remains a dominant... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Cash; Culture; Distribution Industry; Financial Services Industry; Morocco

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

are very different consumers from the more affluent. What kind of business models are needed? A: There are three major challenges. First, there is the issue of cultural distance between corporate decision... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

30 Mar 2021
News

The hybrid office is here to stay. The shift could be more disruptive than the move to all-remote work.

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Business History - Faculty & Research

Model ; Business Organization ; Decisions ; Business Strategy ; Competition ; Business History ; Collaborative Innovation and Invention ;... View Details

MIT Work of the Future: Perspectives from Business and Economics

David Mindell, Karen Mills and Robert Solow discuss what we can learn from past examples of massive disruption in the workforce. Which lessons apply today, and where might we be in uncharted territory.

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Summer 2016
Article

The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline

By: Willy C. Shih

Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional business. However, what really happened at Kodak is much more complicated—and instructive. Kodak suffered from a... View Details

Keywords: Technological Change; Disruption; Ecosystem; Semiconductors; Photography; Scaling-up; Scaling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Product; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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January 2015 (Revised October 2016)
Case

onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy

By: Jill Avery, Anat Keinan and Liz Kind

onefinestay was a two-sided marketplace that offered high-end home rentals to travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. After five years of rapid growth, it was time to do a comprehensive analysis of the... View Details