Core Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

other staffers from the newspaper to also contribute to the Web site. But the turning point probably came, she said, when Boston.com was able to help the Globe break a huge story on a Sunday, after the newspaper had gone to bed. Joining a project that appears to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

On Purpose

responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Profile

Mike Monagle

“I interned with Amazon.com in China,” says Mike. “I got to see an established American company work in a very entrepreneurial setting.” Entrepreneurship at the core After graduation, Mike spent a number of years with Reed Elsevier where... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved... View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

25 Apr 2014
News

Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers

Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the View Details

21 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)

core theme behind Bookalokal events." Where's the company today? "We've done really well in our first test city of Brussels. It turns out travelers are not the only ones interested in our site. Local people love it—particularly people... View Details

Keywords: Glocal; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

unpredictable macro and political shocks, execution is more critical (and difficult) than ever. Course Content Instead of focusing on how to formulate a great business strategy, this course focuses on how to implement that strategy. In... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

The Levitt Brand

A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Social Enterprise Pioneer

School’s newest alumni? We passed the mike to six members of a learning team from the Class of 2008 to get their thoughts on collaborative learning and what life is really like at HBS. A Binary Formula Science-based businesses demand new... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Diversifying HBS's Case Collection

Cases are a cornerstone of Harvard Business School’s pedagogy. In developing its Racial Equity Plan (REP), the School has recognized that, historically, too few of the protagonists in HBS’s case library come from underrepresented... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

what business can properly be supposed to support. "I am inclined to think that this intense market pressure keeps most managers in most companies meeting what they have committed to investors, customers, and other View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2018
News

Q&A with Janet Cahill

revenue—supporting core priorities and helping to seed-fund new initiatives. Furthermore, guided by the belief that business is the engine that creates prosperity, both in our communities and for society, we... View Details

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Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

1986 – “Competition and Strategy” course becomes part of core MBA curriculum at Harvard Business School 1990 – Publishes The Competitive Advantage of Nations 1994 – Founds The Initiative for a Competitive... View Details

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

different kinds of organizations. “There continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically.” That hallway encounter evolved into a Harvard Business Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for... View Details