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    Innovating for Sustainability

    Every major company is grappling with the meaning and application of sustainability in relation to its geographic location, industry and business model. Similarly, more and more institutional investors are incorporating sustainability into their... View Details

    • July 2010
    • Supplement

    AdMob (B)

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and David Chen
    CEO is deciding between international expansion and increasing the number of publishers to strengthen the company's advantage in the mobile advertising industry. AdMob displayed advertising on global devices, and powered 6,000 websites and 1,000 applications, and... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Capital; Global Strategy; Resource Allocation; Product Positioning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Mobile Technology; Advertising Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Global Talent and U.S. Immigration Policy

    By: William R. Kerr
    Talent is a critical resource for today’s knowledge economy. The United States has benefited substantially from high-skilled migration since the 1970s, especially with respect to innovation and entrepreneurship. This chapter reviews data on these immigrant... View Details
    Keywords: Global Talent Flows; Immigration; Policy; Talent and Talent Management; Global Range; United States
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    • September 2000 (Revised December 2020)
    • Background Note

    Identifying and Developing Capable Leaders

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Morgan McCall Jr
    Presents a synopsis of High Flyers, by Morgan McCall. Offers a method for identifying and training managers with potential--to build management bench strength. View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management
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    • Web

    Business Economics - Doctoral

    Zhuo Business Economics Sagar Saxena Business Economics “ HBS is the ideal environment because I get to think about the world like an economist, but I have the freedom and resources to draw on methods from other disciplines as I study... View Details
    • 2005
    • Book

    Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This book provides an essential framework for understanding global business. It shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; History; Economy; Trade; Strategy
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    • Research Summary

    Competing on a Common Platform

    Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    have to be this way. “If companies I know and admire are doing this, it can’t be that bad, or else they wouldn’t do it.” Layoffs are an example of “hope triumphing over science,” says Sandra Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • March 2003 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Botswana: A Diamond in the Rough

    By: Laura Alfaro, Debora L. Spar, Faheen Allibhoy and Vinati Dev
    In the years since independence, tiny, landlocked Botswana has gone from being one of the world's poorest nations to becoming a stable, prosperous state, blessed with the highest sustained growth rate in the world. This case highlights the role that foreign direct... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Economic Growth; Natural Environment; Developing Countries and Economies; Botswana
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      George C. Lodge

      Professor Lodge had been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1963. Before his retirement in 1997, he taught a number of courses in the MBA Master's Program and in various HBS executive programs. in the MBA program these included: Business,... View Details

      • November 2023 (Revised August 2024)
      • Background Note

      Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview

      By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
      Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying the environmental impacts—including resources consumed and wastes produced—associated with the entire life cycle of a product, from the production or extraction of the raw materials used in its creation,... View Details
      Keywords: Life-cycle; Environmental Performance; Design; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Accounting; Environmental Accounting
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        Roy D. Shapiro

        Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        • November 2023
        • Case

        Gabon Special Economic Zone

        By: John Macomber and Wale Lawal
        Tropical rain forest covers about 80% of the West African nation of Gabon, part of the Congo Basin and the "lungs of the world." Gabon is one of the first nations to earn revenue from carbon sequestration...as long as the rain forest remains intact. There are... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Development; Forestry; Wood; Carbon Credits; Supply Chain; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Strategy; Forest Products Industry; Africa; Gabon
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        • March 2021
        • Article

        Increasing the Level of Abstraction as a Strategy for Accelerating the Adoption of Complex Technologies

        By: Willy C. Shih
        Many new technologies are complex and embody high levels of technical sophistication, and applying them should require significant knowledge and experience. Yet, the rapid adoption and incorporation of these technologies into other innovations seems inconsistent with... View Details
        Keywords: Abstraction; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Technological Progress; Diffusion Of Innovation; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Complexity; Information Technology; Strategy
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        • 13 Dec 2016
        • News

        Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal: Business Creates the Color of Foods

        • Web

        Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

        , Cofounder & Managing Partner, Impactive Capital This panel will highlight how we can effectively build the governance mechanisms for climate action. Thousands of companies have publicly announced targets for carbon reductions, aligned... View Details
        • 2007
        • Working Paper

        Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Filesharing Networks

        By: Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
        We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers) who share files and download from each other and f peers (freeriders) who download from sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth... View Details
        Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Resource Allocation
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        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        Build It, Buy It or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services

        By: Alvin J. Silk and Marta M. Stiglin
        This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to... View Details
        Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Advertising
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        • 17 Oct 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

        Keywords: by Nuno Gil & Carliss Y. Baldwin
        • Program

        Finance for Senior Executives

        Exploring the flow of financial resources, capital markets, and systems for financial management and control, this executive finance program positions you to drive new levels of profitability for your organization. This program is... View Details