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  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Forward Thinking

Weinzierl says. Sustaining that advantage has become a matter of policy. The US military, for example, not only buys services from private space enterprises but also invests heavily in them. “The leading... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

businesses has reduced the company's once dynamic growth close to zero. As the newly appointed CEO, Ishrak faces the formidable challenge of restoring the company's growth. In his first 18 months as CEO, he has laid the groundwork for future growth by ramping up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy
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  • 05 Mar 2025
  • News

Uncertain Terms

crave. It’s an exercise in imagination. Businesses today are investing heavily in big data’s predictive potential, but you write that you’re skeptical that “artificial intelligence will tame even banal uncertainties that frustrate actual... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

took in $2.8 billion in new investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Rica, for instance, with a long history of investing in education, began developing a cluster in information technology some years ago and eventually convinced Intel to build a plant there. Related actions followed, including supplier... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 16 Oct 2014
  • News

Innovating for International Aid

and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
  • 29 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

DIVERSIFYING OUR CASE PROTAGONISTS: HOW IS HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL DOING A YEAR LATER?

Knoop, executive director of the HBS Case Research and Writing Group (CRG), which explored the specific challenge of creating organizational processes and infrastructure to sustainably increase the representation of diverse protagonists,... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

at a venture capital firm called Clean Energy Ventures here in Boston, which focused on seed and series A investments in energy transition related technologies. These experiences were really helpful in understanding how larger companies... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Diversifying Our Case Protagonists: How is Harvard Business School Doing a Year Later?

Knoop, executive director of the HBS Case Research and Writing Group (CRG), which explored the specific challenge of creating organizational processes and infrastructure to sustainably increase the representation of diverse protagonists,... View Details
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006 it was not clear whether Opteron's success in the server segment would translate into success in other microprocessor segments, notably corporate desktop and laptop, and whether the initial success in servers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

process in the event of failure. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-087.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAltoona State Investment Board: December 2008 Harvard Business School Case 809-095 Rod Calhoun, the head of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

learning how to maximize investment portfolio value with alternative investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable View Details
  • 02 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy

her current focus on climate education. “I wanted to create programs that would sustain student learning, programs that would be more impactful than a one-off field trip. These students are our next generation of climate stewards!” Today,... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

so, whether she could attract the means to expand to Atlanta and Newark, where airport lease negotiations were again proceeding. Whatever external resources Rhyne would need to sustain her vision, her 18 months of mostly lonely,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

technological complexity only magnifies the challenge. Many companies, meanwhile, are apt to see investment in safety as the cost of fulfilling regulatory requirements or protecting against lawsuits, rather than as an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 04 Feb 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

product-market view of the world; it was all about the automobile. The Google approach, by contrast, "is more an organization building. The premise is if you build an investment business and bring in enough great talent, they will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Supplement

The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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Print View - Course Catalog

Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Kris Ferreira Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Supply Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Ananth Raman Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Sustainable Investing Finance... 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