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Skydeck - Alumni

Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline industry The Musts of 2024 Alumni recommendations from the year in media Solving the Underemployment... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

disappearing when you consider about Apple Pay. Amazon is competing with pharmacy businesses now. So what defines industry membership of a company? And where does an industry start and where does it end?... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail
  • October 1999 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

International Investor, The: Islamic Finance and the Equate Project

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
Equate Petrochemical Co. (Equate) is a joint venture between Union Carbide Corp. and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) for the construction of a $2 billion petrochemical plant in Kuwait. The sponsors began construction in August 1994, using a bridge loan, and are in... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Project Finance; Religion; Investment; Finance; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Kuwait
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  • 2017
  • Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

Keywords: by Chonnikarn Fern Jira & Michael W. Toffel
  • 27 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

carbon dioxide.” Carbon capture technologies seek to pull carbon directly out of the atmosphere, then either use it to make something useful—say, plastic—or sequester it underground to mineralize. The challenge, of course, is that CO2 is only 0.04 percent of the... View Details
  • May 2025
  • Case

Windsurf and the AI Code Assistant Market

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Sudhanshu Nath Mishra and Radhika Kak
In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain View, California, to assess its remarkable year of growth. The company had scaled from a niche GitHub Copilot alternative to a breakout player with over... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry; United States
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Courses - Private Capital Project

Courses Courses Executive Education Courses Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital The Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital course is structured for individuals new to the sector, covering the initiation of new funds or ventures. The curriculum... View Details
  • January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Glass Egg Digital Media

Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

or even whether to sell their products via those channels at all if online retailers impose certain bundling policies. I thought the music industry would be an ideal research setting because it is a sector strongly associated with bundled... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Construction Industry ; Education Industry ; Energy Industry ; Industrial Products View Details
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

boundaries of firms. And it also studies the development of British industrial science in universities and efforts to promote innovation through the formation of industry clusters. Overall, the evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

owned and contracted operations (Scope 1 and 2) and emissions from up- and downstream activities (Scope 3). Although we frequently hear Scope 1 and 2 emissions considered separately from Scope 3, it became clear that Arla corporate’s efforts on View Details
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

returned to their organizations to lead inspiring projects that developed wonderful, strategic Balanced Scorecards. But not all of these companies were able to sustain the energy to deliver the results we reported in Chapter 1. What helps... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the customers of one business were competitors with the other. View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

companies, and markets. 10:45 a.m. Rebuilding Industry and Infrastructure: The Need for a New Climate Workforce Faculty Moderator: Eleanor Laurans (MBA 2006) , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Evette Ellis , Cofounder... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

  Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne