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- June 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Course Overview Note
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
By: Willy C. Shih
This Module Note for Instructors outlines the structure and content of the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise MBA second year elective course at the Harvard Business School. The course focuses on giving students a solid grounding in the construction of... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most of the management tools and... View Details
- 2015
- Book
Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
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
Henderson, Rebecca, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman, eds. Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Research Summary
Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability
Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details
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Sustainability in Energy Industry
useful for research topics of all key aspects of sustainability in energy industry HOLLIS Catalog (Tip: The link leads to a search result on sustainability and circular... View Details
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Technical Note
Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage
This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that some firms outperform their competition because they can do things that their rivals cannot. View Details
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Technical Note 313-105, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
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Sustainability in Construction Industry
information for industry practitioners and academia including best practices Construction Industry Institute Knowledge Base Smart Cities World Back to Baker Library's Sustainability Research... View Details
- 08 Feb 2017
- HBS Seminar
Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research
- 2019
- Article
Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'
By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management
Richard, Elizabeth E., Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'." Strategy & Leadership 47, no. 3 (2019): 19–26.
Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation
Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate; once a business gets bigger and more complex corporate arteriosclerosis sets in. Gary Pisano's remarkable research... View Details
- 2021
- Article
The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe
By: Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
In July 2020, the European Commission published the “Study on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance” by EY. The Report purports to find evidence of debilitating short-termism in EU corporate governance and recommends many changes to support sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Short-termism; Hedge Funds; Shareholder Activism; Securities Regulation; Agency Costs; Political Economy; Payouts; Repurchases; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Activism; Research and Development; Investment; European Union
Roe, Mark, Holger Spamann, Jesse M. Fried, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative in Europe." Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 38 (2021): 133–153.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong In every life there is room to improve—particularly if we redirect our efforts in the direction of greater good for all beings. Professor Max Bazerman’s new book, Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- News
4 Components Required to Sustain Innovation
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
sustainable model for supporting its $600 million annual research budget. Through careful patenting and vigorous enforcement, it collected $1.4 billion in royalties in 1999. In contrast, Intel does very... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
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Sustainability in Agriculture and Agribusiness
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings: Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture This report is published by International Union for... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
Business & Environment podcast Climate One Podcast Drilled Podcast Greentech media Energy Gang podcast Rankings Global 100 100 Best Corporate Citizens Newsweek American's Most Responsible Companies 2021 Global Cleantech 100 View Details
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Sustainability in Supply Chain Management
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings Green Supply Chain Management : A Concise Introduction
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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry
within transportation The databases below are useful for identifying current research on all aspects of sustainability and transportation including engineering; social and economic; business and... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim