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  • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 18 Oct 2016
  • HBS Alumni Events

Alumnae Circles Open House: San Francisco

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

There are three components to family governance: Periodic (typically annual) assemblies of the family; all families in business can benefit from this activity. Family council meetings for those families that benefit from a representative... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

can only be justified, if the rise in exports enhances the effect of other policies that ultimately increase competitiveness. If that happens the View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • September 1996 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (A): Linking the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The CEO of the marketing and refining division of a major oil company is in the midst of implementing a profit turnaround. He transforms the strongly centralized, functionally-organized division into 17 independent business units and 14 internal service companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Balanced Scorecard; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 2022
  • Book

The Heart of Business (ハート・オブ・ビジネス)――「人とパーパス」を本気で大切にする新時代のリーダーシップ

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 30 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

graduation, and a brief stint in Birmingham, I’m heading back to Georgia after accepting a position in consulting and I couldn't be happier with the decision. To be honest, I wasn't initially considering a... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

The Energy & Environment Club

resources, such as CPD, the Business & Environment Initiative (BEI), and networks within the Energy & Environment Club. Thanks to Zander Sebenius (MBA ’19) and Andrew... View Details
  • November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Celsius Network Inc.: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt in the Brave New World of Crypto Bankruptcy

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
In July 2022, Celsius Network filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CEO Alex Mashinsky acknowledged that Celsius had grown its assets “faster than the Company was prepared to deploy [them]” and as a result had made “certain poor asset deployment decisions.” Two months after... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Chapter 11; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Asset Management; Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

I often felt like my routine crossing the river symbolized efforts to bridge the gap between the distinct social, cultural, and intellectual communities.  While I View Details
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

Transporting "containerized cargo" seemed to be a natural, cost-effective extension of his business. McLean initially envisioned his trucking fleet as an integral part of an extended transportation network. Instead of truckers... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • 09 Jun 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

firms share their technology with each other. The rapid growth of open source software over the course of this decade has been highlighted in numerous press accounts. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • April 6, 2023
  • Article

A New NFT Launch Strategy: The Wave Mint

By: Scott Duke Kominers and 1337 Skulls Sers
In an NFT project, the mint—the process by which tokens are initially allocated—largely determines who your community is and how they and the broader market view the project going forward. In this piece, we review a new minting strategy recently introduced by 1337... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Mechanism Design; Sales Management; Sales Model; Crypto Economy; Non-fungible Tokens; Networks; Product Launch; Auctions; Market Design
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  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Investor Sentiment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by studying... View Details
Keywords: Investment Return; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Theory; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Oil and Gas Industry

By: Katie Panella, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the oil and gas industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary product impact estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Oil; Oil ＆ Gas; Oil And Gas; IWAI; Impact-Weighted Accounts; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product
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  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

organizational and functional units already have primary responsibility for processes such as budgeting, communications, human resources planning and performance management, IT planning, initiative management, and best practice sharing.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • News

The Right Way to Get Your First 1,000 Customers

  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Video

Who owns it? The Ownership Project on how property rights shape business

  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

missions like that, who had time for an identity crisis? Integration challenges After the initial triage phase, the FBI realized the need to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel