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  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

so, whether she could attract the means to expand to Atlanta and Newark, where airport lease negotiations were again proceeding. Whatever external resources Rhyne would need to sustain her vision, her 18 months of mostly lonely,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

executives compare the cash flows from innovation against the default scenario of doing nothing, assuming—incorrectly—that the present health of the company will persist indefinitely if the investment is not made. In most situations,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

large research and practice infrastructures to produce in-depth insights for a staggering array of public companies, private entities, investment firms, public sector organizations, academic institutions, not-for-profits, and governmental... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

its plans to develop radical innovation even when it thinks highly of the market potential for the radical innovation. The incumbent does so to avoid validating the high market potential to the entrant, who may otherwise be encouraged to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain superior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • September–October 2022
  • Article

The Essential Link Between ESG Targets and Financial Performance

By: Mark R. Kramer and Marc W. Pfitzer
Despite heightened attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, surprisingly few companies are making meaningful progress in delivering on their commitments. Most firms are not integrating ESG factors into internal strategy and operational decisions... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Governance; Financial Strategy; Decision Making; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure
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  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro Diego Comin,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

managers responsible for stewarding brands. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138786837/ April 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

creating social value. As long as an organization creates significant social value, we don't care how it sustains itself—with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • February 2010 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

The Political Economy of Carbon Trading

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath and Nazli Zeynep Uludere
Global climate change is an increasingly prominent political and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both... View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Public Administration Industry
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one agrees with these hypotheses,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a great deal of time on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

undertake. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-053.pdf Is Yours a Learning Organization? Authors:Amy Edmondson, David A. Garvin, and Francesca Gino No abstract available.   Cases & Course MaterialsAmanco: Developing the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

of corruption. But after initial successes-buoyed by visibility generated from mass street protests against corruption in 2011-traffic to the website has slowed. The question before spouses, ex-bankers, and ipaidabribe.com co-founders Ramesh and Swati Ramanathan is how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

Telecom and Chorus. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-036 Massachusetts Financial Services (Abridged) This case describes the compensation and performance evaluations at an View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the poor, by View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge

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