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Revitalizing Businesses
William E. Fruhan, Jr. is exploring how firms act to enhance shareholder value when competitive pressures or takeovers threaten their operations. The approach most frequently taken involves fixing businesses that can be fixed and advantageously divesting those that... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- News
Harvard's Porter Compares Small Business to Big Business
- Fall 2017
- Article
The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets
By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa
Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones. "The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets." Special Issue on Methodologies. Business History Review 91, no. 3 (Fall 2017): 537–569.
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Conference Presentation
The Business of Business Schools
By: Robert L. Simons
Keywords: Higher Education
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
The topic of governance is hot. Shareholders, managers, and business advisors are demanding improved governance of (typically public) companies by strengthening their boards of directors and developing more responsive shareholder... View Details
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speakers: David A. Garvin, HBS facultySrikant... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Changing Role of Business in Society
Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Shared Value; Social Progress Index; Competitiveness; Walmart; BlackRock; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG; Transparency; Campaign Contributions; Campaign Finance; Lobbying; Revolving Door; Political Ideology; Political Parties; Political Partisanship; Government And Business; Government Innovation; Elections; Democracy; Capitalism; Stakeholder Capitalism; Shareholder Engagement; Competition; Strategy; Government and Politics; Society; Social Issues; Human Needs; Wealth and Poverty; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
Porter, Michael E. "The Changing Role of Business in Society." Working Paper, July 2021.
- Program
Leading Global Businesses
Summary In an increasingly complex and volatile global world, companies need capable leaders with a unique mix of global business knowledge and personal leadership strengths. In this global leadership program cochaired by HBS faculty... View Details
- Research Summary
Science-Based Business and the Business of Science
By: H. Kent Bowen
Science and technology can provide strategic advantage to companies' through differentiated products and processes. The focus of our research is on unusually productive and creative labs that are the sources of breakthroughs that create platforms for sustained... View Details
- September 2000
- Case
TruckitNow.com Business Plan
By: Myra M. Hart and Judith Marie Dror
Presents an original business plan. Students are challenged to develop assumptions and create financial projections and statements based on business plan text. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Finance; Framework; Value Creation; Transportation Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Judith Marie Dror. "TruckitNow.com Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 801-151, September 2000.
- Teaching Interest
Families in Business
Like every company, family businesses must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family businesses also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. In this Executive Education program, participants... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Applied Business Analytics
Course Overview:
Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details
- Web
Crossover Into Business
For professional athletes. By Harvard Business School. For professional athletes. By Harvard Business School. Crossover Into Business is a semester-long program in which... View Details
- Web
Business Economics - Doctoral
Business Economics From corporate finance, industrial organization, and international business, to markets, competition, and government regulation, HBS doctoral students in Business Economics delve into some... View Details
- March 2011
- Background Note
Pitching Business Opportunities
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
This note can be used to develop a business plan pitch for a new venture. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Spoken Communication; Competency and Skills; Entrepreneurship
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "Pitching Business Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-086, March 2011.
- Research Summary
Family Business Governance
Davis's other current work explores family, business, and ownership governance in the family business system. A book on this topic is in process. Included in this body of work is a large-scale survey project on corporate governance of Brazilian family companies and... View Details
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Schumpeter's Business Cycles as Business History
Keywords: Business Cycles
McCraw, Thomas. "Schumpeter's Business Cycles as Business History." Business History Review 80, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 231–261.