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  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Meagan Hill

founders and management teams to help their companies grow. She will be involved in sourcing new deals and enhancing operations in the firm's current portfolio. "BASE is a team that loves rolling up its sleeves and working on the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

many issue areas, Indian gaming has probably generated the greatest amount of activity in recent years. In particular, the negotiations that led to the immense success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut have become almost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

have to build competences to deal with local suppliers and global customers. The case describes the operations of WildChina providing detailed information on how they evaluated suppliers to determine their appropriateness, given... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Urban Development has announced grants totaling $759.7 million for sustainable and affordable housing in DACs, as well as $365 million to address lead paint in homes. All in all, the Justice40 programs largely aim to better the quality of... View Details
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from... 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
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  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

opportunistic ." forms of growth (such as "financial securitization"). Milton Puryear added "truck-type SUV sales" to the list of activities deserving low multiples, commenting that, "How is it growth if it is only View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 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
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • Web

Faculty - Private Capital Project

Operations Management Unit. He teaches Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE) in the MBA elective curriculum and previously taught the Technology and Operations... View Details
  • March 1, 2021
  • Article

Transitioning to Clean Energy Transportation Services: Life-cycle Cost Analysis for Vehicle Fleets

By: Stephen Comello, Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Comprehensive global decarbonization requires that transportation services cease to rely on fossil fuels for power generation. This paper develops a generic, time-driven life-cycle cost model for mobility services to address two closely related questions central to the... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Electric Vehicles; Renewable Energy; Biofuel; Carbon Emissions; Mobility; Batteries; Energy; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Transportation; Operations; Management; Sustainable Cities; Decision Making; Investment; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Auto Industry; Consulting Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

sustainability when building EcoWorld. One of these requirements was in-house sewage treatment plant, which we had the opportunity to see during our tour (see Figure 4). Our tour also emphasized that RMZ targets going above and beyond... 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
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

operations is a big part of what YALP hopes to impart. “Typically, the public-sector lexicon can be mystifying to private-sector folks,” says Stacy Richardson, Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke’s chief of staff. “When I attended YALP in 2016,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government