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Electricity - Business & Environment
clean electricity. This requires not only dramatically accelerating clean energy development and adopting new business models, but also reinventing deeply engrained business processes and culture.” Molly... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle
- 2010
- Book
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010. (Selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books of 2010.)
- 25 May 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Celebrates 107th Commencement
Rong Family: A Chinese Business History
Provides the complex historical background to understanding the development of family businesses in China from the late 19th century to the present. Using the example of the Rong family, China's most prominent industrialist family in pre-1949 China, analyzes the... View Details
- February 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Doing Business in Santiago, Chile
By: Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
The case uses the example of the opening of the first IKEA furniture store in Chile – which is operated by Chilean group Falabella – to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the country. It gives readers an overview of Chile’s economic... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; Chile; Latin America
Emmons, Willis, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Ruth Costas. "Doing Business in Santiago, Chile." Harvard Business School Case 323-085, February 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
- 15 Feb 2017
- Video
Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship
- 06 Aug 2015
- News
Women in Business — Sreedhari Desai
- November 1981 (Revised May 1985)
- Case
General Electric: Business Development
By: Francis Aguilar and Richard G. Hamermesh
Aguilar, Francis, and Richard G. Hamermesh. "General Electric: Business Development." Harvard Business School Case 382-092, November 1981. (Revised May 1985.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Competing through Business Models
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competing through Business Models." Chap. 22 in Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni B. Dagnino, 460–491. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
- September 13, 2002
- Editorial
Good Charisma, Bad Business
By: Rakesh Khurana
Keywords: Business Ventures
Khurana, Rakesh. "Good Charisma, Bad Business." New York Times (September 13, 2002).
- January 2001 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model
By: Srikant M. Datar, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In June 2000, Novartis reorganized its pharmaceutical business to form global business units in oncology, transplantation, ophthalmology, and mature products. The remaining primary care products continued to be managed within global functions (e.g., R&D and marketing).... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Recruitment; Product Marketing; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Datar, Srikant M., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Novartis Pharma: The Business Unit Model." Harvard Business School Case 101-030, January 2001. (Revised May 2003.)
- February 2008 (Revised November 2010)
- Background Note
Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method
By: David F. Hawkins and F. Asis Martinez Jerez
A technical note reviewing business combinations and Goodwill accounting under the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, No. 141R. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and F. Asis Martinez Jerez. "Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method." Harvard Business School Background Note 108-067, February 2008. (Revised November 2010.)
- March–April 2013
- Article
Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation
By: Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to underinvesting in experimentation and variation, which are the lifeblood of innovation. Good... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation Management; Learning And Development; Research; Innovation and Management; Business Processes
Thomke, Stefan. "Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation." European Business Review (March–April 2013): 55–58.
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Good Business Needs Bad Lobbyists
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- Video
Building Businesses around Breakthrough Science
- 13 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Joseph Lassiter, Harvard Business School
- April 2012 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Merck: Operating Science-Based Business
By: Ananth Raman, Inga Maurer and William Schmidt
Merck is known for its commitment to investing in basic R&D. Are Merck's long-term investments justifiable when the firm faces extreme earnings pressure? View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Management; Research and Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Operations; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Raman, Ananth, Inga Maurer, and William Schmidt. "Merck: Operating Science-Based Business." Harvard Business School Case 612-082, April 2012. (Revised May 2012.)