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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand and analyze the business models that drive change Communicate the competitive advantages of being a purpose-driven leader to management, leadership, and other key... View Details

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

program? Jesse: My most valuable takeaway from the program was meeting other climate-focused entrepreneurs, and getting to nerd out about new technologies that could change the world. My experience through Nucleate then allowed me to immerse myself in the View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

framework can serve as the cornerstone of both effective management and sound governance. Key Learnings · A sophisticated governance system is necessary in a complex capitalistic economy to ensure that capital funds the best ideas. The... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

customers, investors, and communities a voice and a place at the table when corporate leaders address the climate issues their organizations face. This has manifested in over $30 trillion in investment product under the ESG “label,”... View Details

07 Jul 2003
What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

whether or not too much money is a good or bad thing... it depends upon what you do with the money." An equally strong set of voices doubted whether an economy could have too much productivity. Chris Walker summed up many of these views by commenting, "...... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

found six managerial barriers that hindered communication from lower levels getting to the top, among them ineffectiveness of the leadership team. “Unvarnished employee and stakeholder feedback is key in uncovering those barriers so that... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

financial value. As Brown often says, “Aesthetics matter.” The business of aesthetics is built on storytelling, too. “You can have a well-developed sense of what is beautiful and pleasurable, but if you can’t communicate it, you probably... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

much more flexible schedule than any job I have ever had. I have found a family here within my section and a peer community through clubs like Crimson Parents and the MoMBAs. I am excited for you to meet these inspiring MoMBA women... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded... View Details

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Elizabeth Heard, November 6, 1841. EH. Jacques M. Downs, The Golden Ghetto: The American Commercial Community at Canton and the Shaping of American China Policy , 1784–1844. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 1997, p. 219. John Heard... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

therefore, become unique local centers of innovation for the likes of mutual funds, venture capital, and biotechnology in Greater Boston or aircraft equipment and design, boat and shipbuilding, and metal fabrication in Seattle. The list... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

traditional resellers. Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups. No wonder, then, that an increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures such as thredUP have been attracted to the MSP model. But in 2012 thredUP's management... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

of the challenges and opportunities facing his company. “The last year has been filled with national and international crises in which the role of government and how that intersects with the business community has heightened and grown... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

education and training have too often reinforced barriers between working and learning, rather than bridging the worlds of education and employment. This is an opportune moment to re-evaluate the country’s fundamental approach to human View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

more than 230 creditors, including a bakery owner who held a special bake sale to express her outrage. Did a company that had raised more than $120 million in venture capital need to stiff so many people? Tom Eisenmann, the Howard H.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

human capital and the machine learning toolbox stand to improve decision-making and product development. But doing so requires careful consideration of the balance between personalization and privacy. At what point do curated online... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

“read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to communities of users, not... View Details

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

might say we need to equalize Black and white household wealth because communities have been deprived of economic opportunities,” Desai says. “It’s really a question of: How do we address this deep wound in our collective past, with the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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