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  • 2018
  • Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg
The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research
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  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Doctoral

DeFilippis, 2023 Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Greene Lab, Post-Doctoral Fellow Advisors: Joshua Greene (Chair) , Mina Cikara , and Jeffrey T. Polzer Hayley Blunden, 2022 American University,... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when it comes to dealing with uncertainty, nobody handles it better than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    Benson P. Shapiro

    Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details

    Keywords: apparel; banking; beauty products; brokerage; chemical; computer; consulting; e-commerce industry; electrical equipment; electronics; financial services; food; high technology; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; metals; plastics; printing; professional services; software; steel; telecommunications; wholesale
    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

    By: Tarun Khanna
    New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Society; Situation or Environment; Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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    • 09 Oct 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: October 9

    International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22-23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions covering topics such as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fall 2017
    • Article

    The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

    By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
    This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa
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    • February 2001 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Ducati & Texas Pacific Group - A "Wild Ride" Leveraged Buyout

    Describes the attempt of Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a buyout firm, to purchase a controlling stake in Ducati Motor, the world's leading high-performance motorcycle company, based in Bologna, Italy. Ducati is part of Cagiva Group, a family-controlled industrial group.... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Texas; Italy
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    • 23 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Great Teams Less Productive?

    to recognize and deal with. For example, an organization that has just completed a learning initiative may see a drop in productivity, at least in the short term. Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore the problematic... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 09 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

    problems—and along the way deal with challenges of knowing when to follow the established ways of government and when to break the mold. States and federal government, too, have been reaching out to designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 25 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

    When we wonder whether money can buy happiness, we may consider the luxuries it provides, like expensive dinners and lavish vacations. But cash is key in another important way: It helps people avoid many of the day-to-day hassles that cause stress, View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • September 2017
    • Case

    Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

    By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
    In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details
    Keywords: Roll Up; Private Equity Roll Up; Aggregates; Aggregates Materials; Construction Materials; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Growth and Maturation; Engineering; Construction; Finance; Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Investment; Housing; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Construction Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 05 May 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    How Ethical Can We Be?

    practices that place a great deal of weight on "attitude" and "listening skills." Trust is a cornerstone of an efficient and effective system. Bad things happen when it is undermined by unmet expectations or ethical... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology; green technology
      • 09 Jun 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: June 9, 2015

      and policy change block his fledgling startup, solo entrepreneur Alex Holt evaluates his options. Should he double-down with a major investment in new servers, rewriting his app from scratch, and charging users for a service that he had... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 Sep 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage
      • 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 07 Dec 2023
      • Webinars: Career

      Considering Retirement

      "So you're actually thinking about retiring?!" Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
      • 30 Mar 2018
      • What Do You Think?

      What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

      amesy SUMMING UP: Should Facebook Change Its Business Model? Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, received a great deal of advice from respondents to this month’s column. It included ideas that haven’t gained much attention in the press.... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology
      • 25 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

      as long as humanity has. In Getting Unstuck I discuss some strategies for dealing with the inner critic. The third phase is when we finally realize that our old model isn't working. We begin to face the situation with View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 01 Dec 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

      Keywords: by David Moss; Banking