Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

will drive its adoption of Web services: the movement from proprietary to more commonly used technologies; a shift from mechanical systems to those driven by computer connections; and the development of cars that are always "on the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

via e-mail with Executive Director Vincent Dessain (HBS MBA '87), and Research Associate Anders Sjöman. The School's five centers are charged with supporting the research needs of faculty View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

that the markets between the very rich and the poor are disappearing. Those firms are losing the middle ground, where a lot of consumer activity has traditionally taken place. Companies also must compete... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

30 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

supporting them. Then please shop for the right advisors to help you at the right price. 5. Develop New Context Awareness. Value-building families also take this opportunity to consider how greater wealth or... View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

Goldman Sachs & Co.—where one of the authors (Friedman) was Chairman—during the 1980s and early '90s: the firm's moves into junk bonds and private equity and its sustained... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

also teaches courses on innovation and building new ventures to seasoned executives in the School's Executive Education Program. This excerpt from a recent presentation encourages executives to leverage disruptive change as a platform... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

while the sustainable supply chain network is being set up. Measurement. The last step is setting up a performance measurement system, such as the Balanced Scorecard, to track progress and keep all of the players accountable. Other areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

explore the factors that enable hybrids to meet and sustain their social mission, while also engaging in commercial activities to support their operations. The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

results to date of the current game. We define the results to date in terms of the desired currency of the return for whatever kind of bet we are looking at—money for investments, View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

traded part. That's where we find the opportunities for much higher productivity that can support high wages. You want to grow those areas where you can be highly productive View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

encourage direct customer participation in such activities—as with Pepsi and DonorsChoose.org. Customer involvement is key for two reasons: First, it increases the "bang" for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although these laws account for less than 7 percent of U.S. public funding for education, their mandates strongly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many... View Details

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

decent pay and job security) workforce to supply the manpower with which to create sophisticated products. The export of these well-designed and efficiently produced goods was View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

also demonstrated a base of support in their cities for system-wide change. We discussed the program in this e-mail Q &A with Childress and Allen Grossman, who is the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

components—culture, systems and structures, resources, and mechanisms for managing stakeholders and the external environment—reinforce one... View Details