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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

current preoccupation in the media and politics with what is wrong, rather than how to fix problems at scale. Confronting Climate Change Professor Daniel Schrag + More Info – Less Info The last 200 years have seen a remarkable explosion in the use of energy, allowing... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

fast-growing competitor in the used car auction market. After its founding in 1993 by Circuit City's management, CarMax had grown rapidly. The company had been profitable since 2000 and independent from its parent company since 2002.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

really goes away. Since the dawn of advertising, retailers have made a point of marketing separate lines of branded products for men and women in many categories, even in cases where their functions are essentially the same. It's a concept called gendered branding:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

Innovation to You Featured Exercises Brainstorming for Final Paper: Examine Your Organization’s Resources, Processes, and Profit Formula to Foster Growth and Success in the Future 5-6 hrs Module 4... View Details

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611082-PDF-ENG Knowledge Creation at Eisai Co., Ltd Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Mayuka YamazakiHarvard Business School Case 711-492 Eisai has used knowledge creation as the engine of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Safaris find a sustainable growth path that will allow it to profitably expand its business and meet its shareholders’ interests while still achieving its priority purposes of protecting and investing in the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Coney Island Prep Connecticut Office of the Governor Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Dillard University Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Endeavor Global Environmental Defense Fund Equal Justice... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

15 Jul 2019
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Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

mean? Desai: People think finance and accounting are fundamentally the same when, in fact, much of the finance approach is a reaction against accounting. If you take the information problem as central, then measuring cash becomes important, as View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

initial media interest in the product—and for the reactions it engendered among journalists. Following a demonstration of a prototype on Good Morning America, for example, Diane Sawyer said, "I would kill Clocky in about two days." Fun View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

"Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2024 People’s Choice Flash Talk Award at the INFORMS Early-Career Sustainable Operations Workshop for “Power vs.... View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and profitably serve customers. It varies... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

the company’s growth and profit was the size of the global retail market itself. No competitors could successfully undercut such a retail phenomenon. The wheel of retailing had been stopped! Until, of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 Feb 2021
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Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

worked out. It may have contributed to the thinking behind the “dot-com bubble,” which was characterized by a wave of IPOs for organizations built around the information economy, ballooning stock options, and new attitudes toward company value (with View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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