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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
investment. "Now, obviously, the company is doing much better since Jobs returned to the CEO job; but having said that, it has not yet reached the value that it was in the early 1990s," Yoffie points out. Yoffie, whose book Judo View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
exercise unless management approaches them with military discipline." Mike Kirkeberg goes even further in saying, "All new management philosophies and strategies work ... until they don’t. ... It seems very simple: Make a good... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies representing four categories: View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
population, from water stress and land use to the extreme impacts of drought and disease from climate change. A key part of their sustainability strategy is working very closely with all stakeholders in... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
its peak in 2017. Over the years, Ping An implemented its finance plus ecosystem strategy through three steps. First, it used technology to enable and increase the competitiveness of its core business of financial services. Second, it... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
social issues continued across the world, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia, which produced 80% of palm oil. The case discusses the sustainability strategy implemented by Unilever across time with regards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to firms that have bucked this trend,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
revenue share on transactions and provide curated fulfillment/logistics. —Tony Chao (MBA 2007) Stay the course and focus only on made-to -order, which is the best way to build a sustainable competitive advantage. The made-to-order model... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. The case caught the attention of Luo and Alberto Galasso, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, who have together looked at the impact of changes in liability... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
think about the ballets we’re presenting as part of a portfolio,” says Hodges, who joined the organization in 2014. “Taking that approach makes it possible to balance our mission of developing new works while meeting financial View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- March 1996 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Freeport Indonesia
In 1996, PT Freeport Indonesia, the mining subsidiary of Freeport McMoRan, had just completed an expansion of its copper and gold mine in the western half of New Guinea. The mine, which had dealt with numerous environmental and sociocultural problems over the past... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Mining; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Expansion; Social Issues; Mining Industry; Indonesia
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Freeport Indonesia." Harvard Business School Case 796-124, March 1996. (Revised January 2002.)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey... View Details
- March 2012 (Revised February 2013)
- Background Note
The Hybrid Vehicle Market
By: Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon
This note describes the hybrid electic vehicle market, the results of different automaker strategies, and the environmental regulatory issues that can promote or inhibit market growth in the United States. Introduces students to the technologies and regulatory aspects... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Information Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
Toffel, Michael W., and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon. "The Hybrid Vehicle Market." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-084, March 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?
- Web
Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog
sustainable customer growth. We will delve into the fundamentals of customer value, analyze strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and development, and apply customer analytics tools and... View Details
- Spring 1992
- Article
Student Environmental Organizations
By: Julian Keniry and Brian Trelstad
On campuses around the country, student groups are discovering the benefits of working on projects in cooperation with campus officials. View Details
Keniry, Julian, and Brian Trelstad. "Student Environmental Organizations." New Directions for Higher Education, no. 77 (Spring 1992): 103–112.
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
STARS framework (for startup, turnaround, realignment, and sustaining success) to help new leaders match their transition strategies to the situations they faced. Q: As you describe in your book, not all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
Continuing Conversations are an academic offering developed by the Sustainability Club to fulfill a desire by MBA students to dig deeper into the environmental themes presented in cases taught during their first year. These faculty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
destructive, and unsustainable,” he said. “Our treatment of livestock reflects the public worldview of self-interest and greed.” Until the modern era, Hodges asserted, farmers and keepers of livestock understood “the importance of View Details