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08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Studying the Historical Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile

A major priority of the business history group within the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School is the globalization of the research and teaching of business history. Within this broad context, the overall aim of this two-year project is to... View Details

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

parts and permutations—really works. A carbon trading simulation designed by Harvard Business School professor Peter Coles gives students the opportunity to experience firsthand the pressure-packed... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

09 Feb 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Developing Resilience on the Path to Becoming a CEO

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley; Information Technology; Technology

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Growth and Shared Prosperity

By: Karen Mills

In June 2015, 73 chief executives, mayors, governors, university presidents, economists, and thought leaders from across the political spectrum gathered at Harvard Business School to work on a question of deep and growing concern in the United States: How can our... View Details

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Models of Success

By: Myra M. Hart

Myra Hart is conducting research on the career and personal paths that Harvard Business School alumnae pursue over the course of their lives. She is developing programs to encourage and support the creation of dynamic and multi-facted models of success. These programs... View Details

Article

Is This the Right C-Suite Role?

By: Anne Donnellon, Joshua D. Margolis and Amy Gallo

A Harvard Business School Case Study is presented which asks "Is This the Right C-Suite Role?" Experts Rakefet Russak Aminoach, managing partner at venture capital firm TeamB, and Nadia Rawlinson, chief people officer at Slack and a board director at Vail Resorts and... View Details

Keywords: Executives; Women Executives; Office Politics; Management Teams; Personal Development and Career

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14 May 2008
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care" Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

10 Jun 2008
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

2 Oct 2008
Other Presentation

Creating a High-Value Health Care System: Implications for Finland

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care" Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health; Finland

20 Oct 2008
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, "How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care," Journal of American... View Details

Keywords: Health; Brazil

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

1 Mar 2012
Talk

German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System

Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School assesses the German health care system and offers suggestions for reforming to a value-based system, where rewards flow to those practices performing best. Introduced by Karl Lauterbach, professor of health economics and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Germany

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Case

Interactive Minds (A)

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall

The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Market Entry and Exit; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Consulting Industry