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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into practice new understandings about the relentless... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
Taking a risk by breaking with standard operating procedure can make your company more innovative. Credit: maxsattana In addition to creating a new company that is disrupting the status quo, many founders are also challenging the old norms of how View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- November 1976 (Revised January 1984)
- Case
Norton Co.: Strategic Planning for Diversified Business Operations
By: Francis Aguilar
Describes an elaborate approach to strategic planning for diversified business operations. Includes the use of the BCG experience curve and growth share matrices and of PIMS profit-factor data. (Both sets of ideas are described in appendices to the case.) Also... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Diversification; Operations; Business Growth and Maturation; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation
Aguilar, Francis. "Norton Co.: Strategic Planning for Diversified Business Operations." Harvard Business School Case 377-044, November 1976. (Revised January 1984.)
- 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
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
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Business as Stakeholder in Public Education: A History of Business Efforts to Improve Public Schools in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 399-062, November 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Managing Human Capital—Global Trends and Challenges
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: David H. Thomas, HBS faculty... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Thomas
- January 2020
- Background Note
Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business
By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; National Security; Government Legislation; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Science-Based Business; Weather; Society; Technology
Henderson, Rebecca M., Sophus A. Reinert, and Mariana Oseguera. "Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 320-087, January 2020. (Click here for a complimentary copy on the Business & Environment Initiative’s site.)
- 2022
- Chapter
Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19
By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel, Benjamin Iverson, and Adi Sunderam. "Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19." Chap. 4 in Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19, edited by Wendy Edelberg, Louise Sheiner, and David Wessel, 123–162. Brookings Institution Press, 2022.
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Article
Roundtable Discussion: Business Strategy and Antitrust
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dennis Yao and Toby E. Stuart
Montgomery, Cynthia A., Dennis Yao, and Toby E. Stuart. "Roundtable Discussion: Business Strategy and Antitrust." Antitrust (American Bar Association) 21, no. 1 (Fall 2006): 6–13.
- September 2011
- Article
A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct
An extensive global survey by three Harvard Business School professors finds that employees agree on core standards of corporate behavior. But meeting those standards will require new approaches to managing business conduct. The compliance and ethics programs of most... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Management; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Standards; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance
Paine, Lynn S., Rohit Deshpandé, and Joshua D. Margolis. "A Global Leader's Guide to Managing Business Conduct." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011). (Online edition.)
- 05 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
- July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Formosa Plastics Group: Business Continuity Forever
Wang Yung-ching, legendary Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth US $5.5 billion, but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang, and uses it to study succession planning for family... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Governance Controls; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Chemical Industry; Taiwan
Jin, Li, Joseph P.H. Fan, and Winnie S.C. Leung. "Formosa Plastics Group: Business Continuity Forever." Harvard Business School Case 210-026, July 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- January 1989 (Revised October 1993)
- Background Note
Note: Valuing a Business Acquisition Opportunity
Describes how to value an acquisition opportunity as a capital budgeting problem. Cash flows are discounted at the cost of capital and debt is deducted to value the equity capital of the target company. A key contribution of the note is the discussion of five methods... View Details
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Note: Valuing a Business Acquisition Opportunity." Harvard Business School Background Note 289-039, January 1989. (Revised October 1993.)
- 2015
- Chapter
What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool developed in the area of business studies. This chapter reviews some key aspects of strategy as defined by the so-called "positioning school" and discusses... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Regional Policy; Strategic Planning; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Policy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy." Chap. 3 in Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness, edited by Jesus M. Valdaliso and James R. Wilson, 37–54. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.
- June 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business
Early in February 1934, two and a half months after the end of prohibition, Jack Sindler sat with a friend in Boston's Ritz Hotel bar enjoying a drink. Sindler worked for the Converse Rubber Co., and he was always inventing something. He held several patents for rubber... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Production; Market Entry and Exit; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Acquisition; Growth and Development; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
Spear, Steven J. "Spir-It, Inc. (A): Building the Business." Harvard Business School Case 601-081, June 2001. (Revised May 2002.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- October 2008 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston
For Intel Corporation, the processes and priorities that have made it so successful are difficult to overcome as the company tries to diversify away from its core. The case examines the history and evolution of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group, as the leader... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Transition; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business History; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty
Shih, Willy C., and Thomas Thurston. "Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (A)." Harvard Business School Case 609-043, October 2008. (Revised December 2010.)