Information Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

BP oil spill,” the 2010 disaster that devastated the environment and businesses along the Gulf Coast, including in the small town south of New Orleans where he grew up. Bagala watched his father’s business falter and then fail in the... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

investors to create a supportive environment in which African entrepreneurs can thrive. Why Muslims Lagged Behind and Others Progressed New translation by Nadeem M. Qureshi (MBA 1982) Austin Macauley In the fall of 1928, the imam of Java,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2017
News

Promoting a Deeper Understanding

“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

creating a powerful learning environment via the case and field methods in our educational programs. We achieve it through a faculty that is close to practice, dedicated to teaching, and remarkable at producing breakthrough insights. And... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

of Skydeck was edited by Craig McDonald, with additional production by PRX Productions. It is available at iTunes and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit... View Details

Fast Answer

Real estate: emerging markets

financial market stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. Regulations Doing Business Data and analysis that measures the business environment of more than 180 countries and selected cities around the globe.... View Details

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

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01 Jun 2007
News

New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex organizations and shaping innovative public policy.... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; Management

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

selling advertising space on the back of the envelopes. It's one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn't even consider."... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

will also want information that provides you additional perspectives and perhaps a more objective assessment. Baker Library can be a valuable resource and a huge time-saver in getting you up to speed quickly. Our team of eight librarians... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa

Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their own View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; UNICEF; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Farming for Fuel

What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a good way to go — but not so fast. In “Mid-Missouri Energy,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

corporate management, and how PGL helps executives address these critical issues. Q: How are fundamental changes occurring in the global business environment driving change at the organizational level? A: These are turbulent times for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

31 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

HBS Reunions offer Alumni a chance to come together and learn from faculty and fellow alumni and find inspiration in the ways HBS and fellow alumni make a difference in the world. Below is information on the session "Climate Pioneers"... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

governments often do, which is to throw money at entrepreneurs without creating an environment that is hospitable to entrepreneurship. You’ve written that government stimulus packages sometimes fail because they are directed by a “herd... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2009
News

Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs

You’re writing fresh material for a paperback edition of The Partnership that’s coming out in the fall. What’s new that you’re focusing on? First and most important, the larger business environment in 2008–2009 has been completely... View Details

Keywords: Finance

December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)

By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis

Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's "territory" with advanced technology, quality, and,... View Details

Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Information Technology; Ethics; Situation or Environment; Product Development; Segmentation; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Australia