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- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
sustainability. Our research had not captured how important symbiosis has become for the entire Kalundborg region—businesses and households alike. Symbiosis is a real-life example of “one man's trash is another man's treasure.” To learn... View Details
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
the mid-19th century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to the fourth-largest investment banking house in the country. HBS Entrepreneurs Collection In 2001, Harvard Business School initiated a two-year oral history project to View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
In 2011, Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) returned to his high school alma mater in Wilmington, Delaware, to serve as the first non-clergy president in the Catholic school’s century-long history. “Salesianum School’s transition to lay leadership was a big step, and it... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Preferreds to Generate Long-Term Income by Simon Wadsworth (MBA ’73C) (Bookmasters) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze (MBA ’98D) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
could also explore how differing trajectories of technological development influence the evolution of industrial clusters. It would also be interesting to chart the attempts by many regional development boards and business associations to View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
"You have to be absolutely conscious of standards. The reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after the Sultan of Brunei is because he captured the standards. Are we subject to the emergence of new standards?" he... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
future roles, responsibilities, and objectives may foster confusion and misalignment between management and employees and, in some cases, may even breed competition for resources within the firm,” the team writes. Sadun and her colleagues point out that the email and... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
96 globally distributed members in six software development teams, we propose a model that captures how asymmetries in language fluency contribute to an us vs. them dynamic so common in global teams. Faultlines, formed along the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
nature, but is also cross-border. "An increasing number of entrepreneurial firms go abroad much earlier in their lives than ever before in recent business history," he explained. Singulus, a Germany-based CD metallization manufacturing company, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital markets? These probing questions View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
with the D2C option, mainly because speed is of the essence to establish a market position before someone else does. I would consider partnering with real estate companies but worry that they’d want to capture some of the value or put too... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
questions. Yet, the conceptions of business that each question implies can be (and historically have tended to be) mutually exclusive. Everybody wants goods and services made available at low prices. But achieving that goal often means building large companies to View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
“Three-Box Solution”—has been his model for 35 years, spanning work with more than 100 CEOs. “It’s really my life’s work,” says Govindarajan, a longtime professor at Dartmouth who rejoined the HBS faculty as a Marvin Bower Fellow this year. He’s View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
and (f) profitability ratios. We show that SBPs are not constrained by standard industry classification and are more dynamic, pliable, and concentrated. We also show that co-search intensity captures the degree of similarity between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
into the atmosphere is clear. The world’s existing and anticipated alternatives for zero carbon energy—renewables, carbon capture and storage, and the established nuclear technologies—are not good enough to wean the world from coal. The... View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
and their decarbonization targets, along with their strategic decisions to balance growth with sustainability. This included exploring pathways such as renewable energy integration, hydrogen-based DRI pilot projects, and carbon capture... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the moment of acquisition) that the firm makes about customers' traits that are relevant for the firm (e.g., whether the customer will purchase again, how s/he will respond to specific marketing actions). The main aspect of the model is that it View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman