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- January 2025
- Case
Driving Efficiency and Sustainability at P&G China
By: Feng Zhu, Philip Kuai and Billy Chan
P&G China’s business had reached new heights thanks to the explosive growth of e-commerce in the country, but the rapidly increasing volume of shipments to customers had created operational and environmental challenges in terms of packaging waste, shipping damage, and... View Details
- November 2024
- Case
Innovation at Master Kong Beverages
By: David E. Bell and Shu Lin
Hong-Chen Wei (HBS MBA 2014), Chairman of KSF Beverage Holding Co., Ltd. (KSFB), was steering the company toward the premium segment with the launch of “InheriTea,” a premium, sugar-free tea product. Traditionally, KSFB’s flagship brand, Master Kong, catered to the... View Details
- July 2023
- Supplement
Reimagining Enel: Enabling Sustainable Progress (A)
By: Michael Tushman and Kerry Herman
This case describes the transformation of Enel from a traditional “brown” or fossil fuel energy firm to a sustainable and green firm focused on renewables, and finally to an energy supplier and integrated energy services firm. It describes a set of capabilities... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Invention; Transformation; Green Technology; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry
Tushman, Michael, and Kerry Herman. "Reimagining Enel: Enabling Sustainable Progress (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 423-724, July 2023.
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
success. A company that consistently follows this formula has better than a 90 percent chance of sustaining superior business performance. The 160 companies in our study—which we call the Evergreen Project—were divided into forty quads,... View Details
- January 2016
- Case
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Crown Maple, the flourishing maple sugaring business the Turners started in 2010 has helped them achieve both goals. Known for its distinctively rich flavor—achieved, in part, through sustainable, certified-organic harvesting practices and View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
while pursuing their long-term vision of reshaping the fashion industry and its impact on the environment. Entrepreneurship, Theuerkauf says, is a lot like inventory management, both art and science. That’s where the name Syrup Tech came from. “Our ‘tech’ is the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Program
Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
developing and implementing competitive strategy for a company or business unit, such as: Chief executive officer, chief operating officer, divisional president, and vice president Chief financial officer, chief innovation officer, and... View Details
- Article
Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
By: Luc Laeven, Ross Levine and Stelios Michalopoulos
Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian model in which entrepreneurs earn profits by inventing better goods, and profit-maximizing financiers arise to screen entrepreneurs. The model has two... View Details
Laeven, Luc, Ross Levine, and Stelios Michalopoulos. "Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth." Journal of Financial Intermediation 24, no. 1 (January 2015): 1–24.
- Jan 09 2018
- Testimonial
Developing a Technique for Innovation
- Web
Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index View Details
- January–February 2017
- Article
Africa's New Generation of Innovators
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Derek van Bever
With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the continent, discouraged by widespread... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., Efosa Ojomo, and Derek van Bever. "Africa's New Generation of Innovators." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 129–136.
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, disruptive innovations typically take advantage of "asymmetries of motivation" by entering markets that incumbents are motivated to exit or ignore.... View Details
- Fast Answer
Sustainability in Agriculture and Agribusiness
number of approaches to sustainable agriculture, as well as supporting activities. The approaches all share the common goal of striving for sustainability, which includes environmental aspects but also socio-economic considerations. A... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark... View Details
- 2008
- Simulation
Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery
By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Investment; Product Development; Research and Development; Battery Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Clayton Christensen. "Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery." Simulation and Teaching Note. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008. Electronic. (2656-HTM-ENG.)
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Innovation Leaders Create Long-Term Value
- 10 Apr 2025
- News
Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovation Adoption and Organizational Identity: Identity Dynamism as a Strategic Resource for Top Management Team Decision Making
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Tushman
Organizations continuously face decisions about whether to adopt radical innovations. We examine the relationship between innovation adoption and identity, linking identity with firm strategy to explain innovation adoption over time. We conceptualize identity as... View Details