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- 13 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation
By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever
A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.
In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation
"4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation." HBR IdeaCast (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, October 13, 2022.
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Andrea is interested in understanding business strategy in today's complex institutional environment. As such, her research interests range from policy to social movement influences. Work so far has focused on the specific topics of corporate governance, private... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual capital. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
adopted AI in some capacity. At HBS, faculty research and teaching reflect the growing importance of training leaders who can both leverage AI’s possibilities and avoid its pitfalls. Recently, Jan Rivkin, faculty head of the MBA Program... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 12 Apr 2013
- HBS Seminar
Gary Frazier, USC Marshall School of Business
- Web
Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Social enterprise-focused alumni comprise a powerful network for social impact that spans across the globe. Whether it’s within the nonprofit, public, or private sector, HBS alumni pursue a variety of managerial, entrepreneurial,... View Details
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
This session will unpack recent research conducted by Harvard Business School and the Edelman Trust Institute to explain the contours of these shifts, and the risks—and opportunities—they pose. Richard... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
how emotions influence how we think and interact with others, particularly in the workplace. An award-winning teacher, Alison’s new MBA course, “How to talk gooder in business and life,” will debut in spring 2020. In addition to her... View Details
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By: Chiara Farronato
Based on a broad interest in the economics of innovation and the Internet, Professor Farronato concentrates her research on the evolution of e-commerce and peer-to-peer online platforms, including platform adoption, economies of scale, and drivers of heterogeneous... View Details
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
arts and culture; business at the base of the pyramid; CSR; community and economic development; education; environment; human services; impact investing; international relief; nonprofit consulting; and philanthropy. Details for Students... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids arising from the absence of a strong tradition of... View Details
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-056, November 2018.
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Prof. Altman's research interests include innovation, strategy, organizational change, platform-based businesses and their related ecosystems. Her work focuses on the impact to incumbent organizations as platform-based highly networked business models become more... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management by building more value in their alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching. 2) Business school curricula, if not always their teaching, reflect the demands of the market. This is or is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
Filling the White Space
At Able Partners, Amanda Eilian (MBA 2006) and Lisa Blau (MBA 2003) have focused primarily on women-led wellness companies, including businesses such as Goop, Moon Juice, and Daily Harvest. Now the New York–based investment firm has... View Details