Information Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

Twitter' but when asked why or to what end, often there isn't a lot of strategic thinking behind their decision to be in social media." As apps, blogs, and social media have transformed the Internet in the past decade from the static content View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

September 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

On the Bubble: Startup Bootstrapping

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Tom Quinn and Annelena Lobb

Bubble was a software company in the low-code/no-code market, making tools that allowed users without traditional programming backgrounds or technical skills to build software. The case covers cofounder Joshua Haas’s engineering background, as he experienced a high... View Details

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Harvard Business School

and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and HBS. In 1968, Gates began his career in View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

environment its original owners never envisioned. As other independent booksellers before her had discovered, Brody realized that the store could never compete with its bigger rivals on price or—with just 1,000 square feet of space—on... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

reason to trust each other. Without trust, many transactions will never materialize. A crucial feature of any platform is enabling and creating a trust environment allowing independent parties to feel comfortable that they’re not putting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

commissioning a study and engaging with its results to inform strategic decision making. Trade, Logistics, and Geopolitics: New Realities for Supply Chains Professor Willy Shih No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info... View Details

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

experts granted the privilege of sharing her knowledge, Henderson used her time, she says, "to tell him everything I know about business, energy, and the environment." Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and codirector of the Business and View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Mar 2018
News

Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

Maple Leaf Chapter co-hosted HBS professor Leonard Schlesinger (pictured) at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel in January. Professor Schlesinger led all 110 attendees in a case discussion and lecture on delivering breakthrough service in the 21st century. 4 The HBS Energy &... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

The Birds and Bees in China

The fact that they are one billion in number confirms that the Chinese have at least a passing familiarity with the means of reproduction. Yet Leslie Kenny (MBA 1997) has built a thriving online business based on a Chinese desire for more View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

09 Nov 2016
News

The Seeds of Learning

We teach students about nutrition, community, and the environment through hands-on lessons that take place in the garden. That means that we’re teaching students about how to take care of their bodies through both diet and exercise, how... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Environmental Impact

the School’s intellectual contributions as they relate to climate change, sustainability, agribusiness, and good governance.” McCaw has funded an endowment to support the School’s Business and Environment Initiative that will advance... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2011
News

The Future of Cities

practitioners from business, government, and academia convened at HBS in March for a conference hosted by the School’s Business and Environment Initiative. Participants at the event, titled “Investing in the Cities of the 21st Century:... View Details

21 May 2019
News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

Alvarez moderated a panel that offered solutions from the perspective of the alumni business community and industries addressing climate change on the ground.) Part of a global series of events produced by the HBS Business & Environment... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Dec 2019
News

Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

Opportunity,” part of a global series of events organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) and cosponsored by local HBS alumni clubs. The series launched in February 2018 in San Francisco, and has been presented... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers

01 Dec 2004
News

Baker Library Gets New Executive Director

at HBS after serving as director of Microsoft’s Knowledge Network Group, where she led a global organization of 100 people delivering information and knowledge-based products and services. She has previously headed View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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