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Events - Business History

University), "Environmentalism and Sustainability in the Southeast Asian Plantation Industry (1930s-2000s)" Organized by Geoff Jones and Kwelina Thompson Seminar meets on Zoom. Nov 13 13 Nov 2023 Business History Seminar: Business,... View Details

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. More recently, some companies have begun advocating for government policies to address climate change. Electricity Shifting to sustainable electricity... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

The Renewal of an Online Community , Harvard Business School case, 2021. With Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin. Digital Infrastructure , Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment chapter, University of Chicago Press, 2021. IBM... View Details

24 Jan 2005
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Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

from making unnecessary new investments in capacity. For example, the vice president of operations at Lewis-Goetz, a hose and belt fabricator based in Pittsburgh, saw from his time-driven ABC model that one of his plants was operating at... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

offshoring are all squeezing margins, increasing customer price sensitivity, and making it harder to sustain inter-brand differentiation. The product life cycle suggests that, as product categories mature, they become more susceptible to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

and water, rather than fossil fuels, as feedstocks we can use clean electricity to produce all the organic compounds we need.” David Chan MBA 2018 | CCO, Head of Business Development, & Founding Team Member, FarmTogether “FarmTogether is addressing the climate problem... View Details

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

managed for the long term." The research team was interested in several issues: Do short-term companies attract a particular kind of investor? Is investing in these firms riskier than investing in companies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Richard Steele What Is Strategy , Michael E. Porter Macroeconomics Investing in the Post-Recession World Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness Managing Risks Roaring Out of A Recession Physical Environment Business Responses to... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

buying bioplastics, and more and more airlines are doing the same with Sustainable Aviation Fuel. New regulations and financial reporting rules are being drafted to force companies to disclose climate risks they face. The View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Administration Research Interests : economic development , economic institutions , emerging markets , foreign direct investment , globalization Interviews Dato' Sri Prof. Dr. Tahir Shinta Kamdani Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala Dante Roscini... View Details

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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

created by climate change. Sustainable Business Strategy Online Become a purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. View Details

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with outside organizations should not be driven by input costs, taxes, subsidies or even the wage rates for scientists and engineers, as they often are. Instead, R&D investments should flow preferentially to the locations with the... View Details

15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

beginning was that the only way DTC physical goods make sense, as a venture-fundable, multiple-X return on your investment business, is if you can achieve the strong lifetime value (LTV) to customer-acquisition-cost (CAC) ratio that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

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