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  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

in that premass-media era. Titled "More Job Givers Wanted," the article made the case for entrepreneurship in no uncertain terms. "Jobs do not simply exist," Slichter reminded his readers. "They are created by alert, imaginative, View Details
  • April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
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  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of HBS, Joseph Allen... View Details
  • February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal
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  • 16 Oct 2019
  • News

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

indoor air quality—notably involving fresh air and filtration—directly impacts productivity of healthy people and helps mitigate the onset of sick people. As Dr. Joseph View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

"make sure he is upsetting things for the wrong reason rather than for the right reason." Joseph Seiler recalled that in growing companies where he worked, "I came across a few of these Type 4 people. What seemed to help... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Article

Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality
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  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

    How to Make Climate Risk Good Business

    The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

    global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Times Captures History of American Business

    From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
    • 01 Jun 2018
    • News

    June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

    John L. Loeb Jr. (MBA 1954) John L. Loeb CEOs Have to Be a Little Crazy: Shenanigans and Valuable Lessons from Notorious Business Renegades by... View Details
    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Book

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

    humans have become an indoor species, so buildings have a major impact on our health. say John Macomber and Joseph Allen. Teaching View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • October 2020
    • Case

    HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

    By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
    Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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    • 01 Sep 2016
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

    Rothschild, creator of the modern bond market; and William Lever, of the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. Entrepreneurs in Every Generation: How Successful Family Businesses Develop Their Next Leaders... View Details
    • 30 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30, 2015

    audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Jan 2020
    • In Practice

    6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

    clarify the complex "They can communicate very clearly and succinctly—usually with short words and short sentences—and even on complex issues. They've developed the skills necessary to really get to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost