Sustainable Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2007
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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

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

were looking to build the company into a sustainable health and wellness business, round out product offerings, upgrade ecommerce merchandising, and build out the team to support these goals,” says Peters. The HBS Advantage To make the... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Executive Education plans to retain and enhance the best aspects of the virtual, blended, and on-campus experiences to drive sustainable growth across the portfolio. The School's annual endowment... View Details

18 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

to reach out and learn from folks who have a very different background from mine has unlocked unexpected opportunities for growth and learning. You were elected to be the HBS Student Association VP of View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Case Study: Something New

revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

company's sales in 2000 approached $30 million, and it planned to double revenues this year. Krasnow sounded confident about the business at the end of 2000. Zoots had deliberately slowed its growth to focus on resolving operational... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Design a defined, service-driven value proposition Understand sustainable pricing, the service-profit chain, and customer journeys Motivate employees to deliver exceptional,... View Details

February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
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Product Development at OPOWER

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Rob Go

OPOWER, a software startup that helps utilities engage their customers in ways that reduce energy consumption, is scaling rapidly. The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Product Development; Sales; Customization and Personalization; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Information Technology Industry; Utilities Industry

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29 Jul 2014
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restaurant's margins to make it a more sustainable business. But the question was-how? What options really were available? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/noma-a-lot-on-the-plate/an/814097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

board, for instance, she participates in a host of activities, most of them having to do with education, the environment, and sustainable development. "As the beneficiary of a Harvard MBA, I'm aware of the crucial role that management... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

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Community | HBS Online

five-year anniversary. Here’s what our nonprofit partners had to say: Play the Challenge's five-year anniversary Video Since launching the Community Challenge, HBS Online has collaborated with: The Greater Boston Food Bank to help achieve its goal of ending hunger... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since then, the productivity View Details

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

continue forging a path in mission-driven work at Harvard Business School. “I really love this impact related work, and I could do it until I have the last breath of my body, and there will still be work to do,” Ramirez said. “The question that I had was, ‘What is the... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

systems. What does it mean to be globally competitive in today’s economy? From a business fundamentals perspective, you win through innovation, low cost, or better customer service; in my opinion, innovation is the most sustainable... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

HKS toolkit After my first year in the joint degree program at HKS (MPA/ID Program) with leading development economists such as Professors Lant Pritchett and Dani Rodrik, I developed the analytical and quantitative toolkit necessary to diagnose a country’s binding... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

enable themselves to have the time, energy, and devotion necessary to sustain their success. We invite our MBA students to come to this presentation, because they really want to know how to model their lives. EE: What opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

was the kind of place in which an internal memo might list people on a first-name basis. But it has since grown into a massive organization, with vast logistics and all the risk that comes with that. McKenna sees her task as stewarding the NGO to its next lifecycle... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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