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  • 28 Jan 2022
  • News

New Resources for Board Membership

  • February 2025
  • Article

Deep Responsibility, SDGs, and Asia: A Historical Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
Although it was only in 2015 the 17 SDGs were adopted by UN Member States, many of the underlying ideas can be found in the strategies of some businesses going back to the nineteenth century. Asia was the home of many of the most advanced concepts of business... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Multinational Corporation; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Asia
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  • Web

California - Global

Internet, raising ethical and trust-related issues. The case explores Narayen and his leadership team’s deliberations: Should Adobe partner with or acquire an existing player, or build its own GenAI model? If Adobe chose to build, how... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

then falling short of meeting it, then the failure rate is a whopping 90 to 95 percent. "Very few companies achieve their initial projections," says Ghosh. "Failure is the norm." Why Start-ups Fail Start-ups often fail... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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  • 16 Apr 2024
  • News

Netflix Enters Its Dan Lin (MBA 1999) Era

they were growing up just like Indiana Jones is my favorite movie or Star Wars was my favorite movie.” The Hollywood Reporter article notes that Lin will likely advance Netflix’s “fewer, bigger, better” approach to films, and noted his... View Details
  • January 2007
  • Case

AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation

By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley
AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Price; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

to get your foot in the door. (c) 2018 Julia B. Austin Leadership One thing often overlooked when considering a new job is the leadership of your prospective company. Serial entrepreneurs will have a very... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • Web

Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Since its inception, the Social Enterprise Initiative has explored the role of business in creating social value. Early efforts in the late 1990s included hosting a research conference on business leadership... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

Credit ratings play an essential role in global finance by assessing whether borrowers can meet their debt obligations. Agency analysts study data from financial statements to make initial assessments about bond issuers, which include... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy

By: Rebecca Henderson and James Weber
In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the company had made progress on multiple dimensions: energy efficiency in its... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Reputation; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2023
  • News

Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Appoints Alumna as President

leadership as we continue to educate and advocate for new ways to combat hate. Her experience will help unlock FCAS’s next phase of growth and impact.” READ MORE View Details
  • Web

Faculty & Research - Health Care

health care Research Collections Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Increasing Value in Care Delivery Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and... View Details
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

from 1970 to 2007, we find that better-performing teams are less likely to hire minorities to fill lower-level and mid-level coaching positions (as predicted by prior literature on labor queues), but that such teams are more likely to hire minorities into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

immediate response. Provides detail concerning the history of the airline from its founding in 1999 through the February 2007 crisis, which forced the airline to cancel more than 1,000 flights over the course of six days. In addition, discusses the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Japan - Global

reskilling initiatives be deployed in organizations?” or “How do we get employees to participate in reskilling?”. The participants, including HBS alums and friends, found great value in the vibrant discussion led by Professor Sadun. New... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do

By: Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower
Unlike most historical accounts of strategic change inside large firms, empirical research on strategic management rarely uses the day-to-day behaviors of top executives as the unit of analysis. By examining the resource allocation process closely, we introduce the... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure
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  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

serial entrepreneurs versus first-time founders. “We’ve always had a hard time being able to identify the skills and behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders,” says HBS Professor Lynda Applegate, who has spent 20 years studying leadership... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • Web

Social Impact Collaboratory

Mission Statement Led by Harvard Business School Professor Shawn Cole (Finance), the HBS Social Impact Collaboratory is a research-led effort to advance the understanding and practice of impact investing by developing world-class... View Details