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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
sustainable to freeride on the green image. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52393 October 10, 2016 Harvard Business Review Why Lincoln Hid His Strongest Feelings from the Public By: Koehn, Nancy F.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model globally, founder Linda... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
had honed throughout his 33-year career, he overhauled the company’s culture, redefined its leadership capability, and increased earnings by a compound annual growth rate of 125 percent. In No Bullsh!t Leadership, Moore outlines his... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
particular social welfare decisions. Current research: "Is Brazil on the Path of Sustainable Growth and Development?" Laura Alfaro Alfaro: "I want to look at competition for foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
productivity improvement plus growth strategy? While they consider these options in September 2008, the credit markets are about to clamp shut as a global financial crisis is around the corner. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
handset business made up increasingly large shares of its operations. In early 2008, on the strength of sky-rocketing sales in those areas and by resurgent sales of Macintosh products, Apple's revenues and its stock price reached record levels. The case explores the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
lets them make mistakes at those times when they can still afford it. Growth, when it comes, is all the more sustainable as a result. GovWorks's failure is a textbook example of the perils of grandiosity.— Walter Kuemmerle Back in 1987,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
growth in 2011 and beyond, executives contemplated how to best apply their purchasing and supply chain knowledge into new international markets. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512004-PDF-ENG Customer Visits for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
development in more than 20 countries in 1900 and 1913. The evidence presented does not yield robust results that can sustain the hypothesis of persistence effects of legal origin, but it is not powerful enough to reject it either. Then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
market that was attractive on its own merits. The key is that disruption creates new growth! It does eventually attack established markets, but the overwhelming feature of it is that disruption creates new customers, new markets, new applications, that result in net... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
utilitarian motivations that differs from case to case. As Figure 2 below shows, any kind of motivation, or combination of them, can trigger a sustainable partnership as long as it is intense. When the intensity is lacking, depicted as... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
decline. In retail, this measure of performance proves to be extremely important. Retailers can drive revenue growth by opening new stores, but eventually, geographic markets become relatively saturated. Therefore, it is very important... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
major public school districts by 2015. "Today, with the public no longer fully funding public education, even 'wealthy' school districts need funds to increase achievement," says Freeman. "EFP helps arrange ethical, appropriate, and View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other domain to sustain the sector devoted to consumption." He is... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
correct and we’ve had an incredibly steep learning curve over this first year.” During the campaign, Sam’s interest in climate change and sustainability shifted to workforce development and the construction trades. When he visited a... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
case:http://hbr.org/search/713050-PDF-ENG Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth Alfaro, Laura, and Hilary WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-040 Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne