Publications

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

October 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Integrated Packaging Corporation: Struggling to Do the Right Thing (A)

By: Herman B. Leonard and Orson Watson

As a child, Al Fuller had seen his working-class, African-American neighborhood disintegrate as factory jobs moved away. He resolved to help inner-city communities do better when he grew up. Some years later, as an accomplished university graduate with several years... View Details

Keywords: Business and Community Relations; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Strategy; Management Style; Pulp and Paper Industry; Manufacturing Industry

December 2005 (Revised August 2007)
Case

NewSchools Venture Fund in 2004: At a Crossroads

By: Stacey M. Childress and Caroline Joan King

Founded as one of the first venture philanthropy organizations in the United States in 1998, NewSchools Venture Fund brought new investors and new ideas to public education reform. By 2004, the organization and its founder were reassessing their model and their role in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States

Find at Harvard

December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
Case

Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States

Career Coach

Craig Husa

CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer. MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Currently, Craig is also the Board Chairman of the Clean Tech... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

to me has been the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism class with Professor Jeffrey Jones," Mina says. "We put ourselves in the shoes of prominent business leaders from the 19th Century until today. One of the takeaways was... View Details

11 Dec 2014
News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

licensed (for free) by Bushkin’s Health Record Corporation enjoy a material new revenue stream—they are paid each time they update a patient’s medical record by sending notes or test results to HRC. Searchable PDFs are then made available... View Details

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

director of product, where she oversaw the launch of Xbox Kinect incubation. “Many days I would say, ‘This isn’t work.’ There was a lot of ownership of the project. People would refer to it as ‘my business’—that was super-cool,” she recalls. “It was a large View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Jan 2017
News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

more than $350 million—where she focused on health care technology investments. She was general partner, serving on many private, public, and nonprofit boards, while also raising two boys, now 13 and 15. But after 20 years in the View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

February 2003 (Revised January 2004)
Case

International Steel Group

By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga

Profiles veteran investor Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.'s plan to turn around the aging steel assets of LTV, formerly America's second largest integrated steel producer. Purchasing several key assets from LTV under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, Ross is able to acquire the... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Strategic Planning; Lawfulness; Labor Unions; Organizational Culture; Agreements and Arrangements; Global Strategy; Assets; Steel Industry; United States

March 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc.

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Dean Whitney

Rubbermaid, a consumer-products company widely praised for its innovation, has instituted a company-wide experiment to stimulate innovation even further. The experiment consists of creating small cross-functional business teams within each division, with each team... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation Strategy; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

the launch of a new bank, Finansbank, selling both his homes and moving his wife, son, and daughter into a rental. "Entrepreneurship really means taking risks," says Özyeğin, who during that first year successfully opened four branches, focused on View Details

February 1998 (Revised August 1998)
Case

Teradyne, Inc.: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III

Alexander d'Arbeloff, Teradyne's founder and CEO, is launching his company into the software and network testing business. He has acquired three external start-ups and is beginning to integrate them with the rest of the company. While Teradyne's core... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Success; Horizontal Integration

13 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

that the company will be anti-racist, increase diversity, and improve inclusion and belonging. Middle management needs to be part of the solution to create safe spaces for employees to talk about their experiences and work towards solutions together. “In the View Details

20 Jan 2015
News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC), parent company of MedKaz, was created. Passionate about his new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

Meakem: I agree. The benefit of jumping right out is that you don't get cushy; you don't get used to a corporate job with corporate perks and get lulled into submission by staying at a large View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
Case

VendQuest (A): The Business Idea

By: Dwight B. Crane and David Foster

A potential founder of a company is considering whether to start up a new enterprise that would link parts distributors with customers in the construction industries via the Internet. This case describes the industry and the potential advantages to distributors and... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Distribution; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Customer Relationship Management; Business Ventures; Construction Industry