Bottom Of The Pyramid - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

the bottom line. “We’re running out of time to avert catastrophic, irreversible climate change,” he says. Doerr’s influence reaches far beyond View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Short Takes

to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith Courtesy Rahul Advani Courtesy Sara Graziano Courtesy Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1997, focused on the energy sector, he thought... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2014
News

Chili recipes

with salt and pepper and cook without moving until well-browned on bottom side, about 6 minutes. Transfer meat to a large bowl and combine with remaining un-cooked half of meat and set aside. Return Dutch... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

Not so long ago in the business realm, diversity and social justice issues were consigned to a dim, neglected area somewhere at the corporation's farthest perimeter, or locked outside View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

20 Jun 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

businesses concentrating on the bottom of the pyramid, such as microfinance, could profit from using the same... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2014
News

My HBS Eureka Moment

the rest of the University, and wanted to hang on to its wealth instead of sharing it. Seemed pretty plausible. Also View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
News

We Rise

firms that gender diversity is a strength and is going to improve their bottom line is a start.” #2: Change the Image The Perkins Fund does not invest exclusively in women... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

and only incinerating non-recyclable combustible waste. Flue gas cleaning systems are used to limit emissions from the combustion process, and continuous emissions monitoring and a high-tech control room enable close oversight View Details

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

fact, the implementation of information technology generally has been quite disappointing to the "fighting bottom line" in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 May 2016
News

Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999

providers to build shared mobile towers. As Akhil Gupta (AMP 163, 2002), a colleague since 1994 puts it, “Sunil gets to the bottom of the problem... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

Below are outtakes from the faculty roundtable discussion on the crisis in corporate America (“Bad Times for Business,” December 2002). For more information about the research... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on View Details

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

of the rankings in a year before its parent company was acquired but ranked toward the bottom post-merger, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the... View Details

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

Summing Up This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus... View Details