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- 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
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim Andrew (MBA 1986) Chief View Details
- 26 Dec 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
partnership introductions. One example: Saggioro Leal introduced NotCo, a food-tech company that uses artificial intelligence to create sustainable and accessible plant-based foods, to executives at Starbucks and Burger King Latin America... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
relationship that many scholars have claimed could greatly improve governance in many third world nations: the United States ran the currency, provided aid, posted an official inside the Panamanian government, and operated one of the... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
comes from infrastructure that the nonprofit and its local partners install, which provides jobs and benefits communities as well as schools. “We focus on country-wide rollouts where philanthropy and aid fund initial infrastructure and scale, strengthening government... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a... View Details
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Technology & Operations Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits A Manager's Guide to Leveraging Technology Michael Parzen Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise... View Details
- Web
Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
with the social impact of the organization. Managerial opportunity and opportunity for managerial development, particularly jobs that require business and managerial skills gained at HBS. Opportunity to produce significant, sustained... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Financial Anatomy of Climate Solutions: A Large Language Model Approach to Company Classification and Analysis
By: Shirley Lu and George Serafeim
Leveraging advancements in large language models (LLM), we study the financial characteristics of firms offering climate solutions-products and services aimed at fostering a transition to a low-carbon economy. We use a new measure that applies LLM to 10-K Item 1... View Details
Keywords: Climate; Climate Finance; Innovation; Technology; Financial Statement Analysis; AI and Machine Learning; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Analysis; Financial Statements
Lu, Shirley, and George Serafeim. "The Financial Anatomy of Climate Solutions: A Large Language Model Approach to Company Classification and Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-026, August 2024.
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
company that operates a call center in which workers handle customer inquiries about purchasing new digital products and services, including phone, TV, and internet service. Though the company already had a robust training program in... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
High Commitment High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage explains why and how to align the two. "High commitment, high performance (HCHP) companies are firms designed and led by their founders or by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
company decided to reallocate most of its employees from temporarily locked-down activities to the inbound logistics and internal order handling. To sustain the radical change of operations and deliver on... View Details
- September 2015
- Case
Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil
By: John Quelch and Sunru Yong
Aaron Jonnerson, vice president of marketing at the automotive division of Avellin, must make marketing mix decisions for the launch of Eco7, a new environmentally-friendly motor oil. The company's performance has been mediocre, shareholder pressure is increasing, and... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Environmental Sustainability; Product Launch; Transportation; Energy Sources; Auto Industry
Quelch, John, and Sunru Yong. "Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil." Harvard Business School Brief Case 916-507, September 2015.
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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
impact profitability and its relationship to sustainable practices. Publications & Resources Jun 2010 Chair’s Paper The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation & Competitiveness? by Stefan Ambec, Mark A.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
Keywords: by Erin M. Reid & Michael W. Toffel
- 2022
- Chapter
Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
1999. Schwartz’s enthusiasm for having a role in the global marketplace is palpable. When he started at Goldman in 1979, he says, “I had no notion that I was joining a global firm,” but as the company expanded, Schwartz was given many opportunities, including growing... View Details