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  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

become something more." What every entrepreneur knows: "A great idea is not enough." Business leader worth emulating: Lou Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM. "He transformed a giant corporation, but beyond that, he is leading a pathbreaking contribution by his company to reinvent... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

wealthier. The American government currently subsidizes timber and paper companies for chopping down national forests. A business that operated as the government does would quickly go out of business. The government provides welfare to the timber industry because the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

of critical services to faculty, staff, and students including research and course support, information and data management services, and information products. They also manage contemporary and historical collections, the HBS Art... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International Corporation (MFIC) had been providing for two years to a growing number of "unbanked" Hispanic nationals in the United States and their home countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Research - Health Care

Research Professor Raffaella Sadun on Improving Care in Hospitals Professor John Beshears on how the nudge movement can improve healthy behavior John Beshears Research 3,851 Faculty publications on health care 20 % Faculty conducting... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

to creating your own model. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52002 January 2017 Journal of Public Economics Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology By: Stern, Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
  • 2016
  • Chapter

Navigating Natural Monopolies: Market Strategy and Nonmarket Challenges in Radio and Television Audience Measurement Markets

By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
This paper explores how firms within the audience measurement industry, specifically its radio and television markets, have navigated myriad market and nonmarket challenges. The market strategies and the nonmarket forces that constrain those strategies are largely... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Monopoly; Television Entertainment; Public Opinion; Geographic Scope; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Burden Legacy

incoming MBA Class of 2004 to restore confidence in America’s free enterprise system after public trust in business had been shaken by the Enron and WorldCom scandals. And in the wake of the global financial crisis, former Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Programs Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute JUL 7-11, 2025 | HBS Campus Intended for teams of eight participants, including district office personnel, school principals, and regional supervisors who are... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson
Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

to support local nonprofit organizations Career Resources The Social Enterprise Initiative, in collaboration with Alumni Career Services and Baker Library, provides resources and support to assist alumni pursuing careers in social... View Details
  • January 1999 (Revised November 1999)
  • Case

Metapath Software: September 1997

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik
In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software, a provider of software and services to wireless carriers--had two offers to describe. The first was an offer to... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Stocks; Public Ownership; Negotiation Deal; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

  Publications April 2015 Routledge Strong Brands, Strong Relationships By: Fournier, Susan, Michael Breazeale, and Jill Avery Abstract—From the editorial team of the groundbreaking Consumer-Brand Relationships: Theory and Practice comes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in... View Details
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

1995. During its history, FreeMarkets first created the market for internet deployed supply management software and services and then went public in 1999 in a record setting IPO. Later, the company expanded... View Details
  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807158 Westin Hotels and Resorts: Operations of a Lifestyle Experience Harvard Business School Case 607-129 Westin Hotels and Resorts adopted a new "lifestyle" brand strategy which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace