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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
included varies by source and will change over time In the U.S., 17% of homes have an electric heat pump installed. In the South – in states such as North Carolina and Alabama – this number is above 40% [1]. It is clear that electric heat... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
subsidiary's managing director (a large reason for the organization's underperformance) and to corporate. In his first three months, he had taken steps to prepare the organization for change. Yet the lack of more tangible actions and results left him View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet
unmet need and grow it into a purposeful entity. The i-lab, the original component of the now three-lab ecosystem, opened in 2011 in Batten Hall with the vision of offering a “One Harvard” learning and convening space where venture teams... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
your boss. That's not the deal. You have to figure out the sources of power you have to influence the boss. You also have to see the boss as human and fallible in all the ways that you're human and fallible, and figure out how to deal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Events - Business History
was a roundtable on future directions for U.S. regulatory policy in public utilities and antitrust law. The roundtable discussants integrated themes from the day with their own insights and opened up a discussion with the audience. Nov 6... View Details
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
chypre, and was the first perfumer to sell his wares in elegantly designed glass bottles, rather than in the pharmaceutical bottles used previously. An ambitious believer in globalization, he even sent his energetic mother-in-law to open... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
several arguments. Individual pay transparency would eliminate a source of distraction (Srishti Mehra) and "would do more to eliminate gender and racial pay inequity than any other action," according to Miki Saxon. Will Quandt... View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech
and pharmaceutical management. I learned about value-based approaches to drug pricing and concluded that overseeing a mission-driven pharmaceutical company would provide me with the platform and the opportunity to lower prices and expand... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
open source development process. For example, IBM released half a million lines of its Cloudscape program, a simple database that resides inside a software application instead of as a full-fledged database... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
coordination that resulted in their developing self-regulation programs were sparked by crises, including the chemical industry after the Bhopal accident and the nuclear power industry after the Three Mile Island incident. We also examined new forms of collaboration,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Nitin Nohria | About
collectively they could shift perspectives from “us and them” to “we,” to present realities about “what is,” and to spur ideas and actions to bring about “what could be.” 2019 Schwartz Common & Pavilion Opens Made possible by a gift from... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project
brands that were disrupting the current landscape and had noticed a similar shift away from major beauty brands. The data showed that established beauty brands face loss of credibility, requiring them to think about partnerships with trusted View Details
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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care delivery thinking, but can also serve as a platform for other efforts by universities to contribute to local or national health care reform. It opens the potential for field projects in which students... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Using data from a randomized field experiment embedded in a startup boot camp for early stage entrepreneurs, our findings show that innovators who are more open to experience do generate better ideas, but only when they converse with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2023
- News
How FOMO Became a Fixture
process requiring strategic thinking, argumentation, multiple filings, and a bit of flexibility. Protecting a word like FOMO, which had become ubiquitous, required a thoughtful approach. Plus, to obtain a registration, you need to prove that the mark is a View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
unlocking ESG value. Key Themes: ESG and activism may in fact be a source of financial and impact alpha; however, the path from theory to implementation is still being tested. Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest... View Details