big business - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

facilitate the growth of green industries and the early stages of ESG investing. The second path, which developed from the 1970s, grew out of the interest of big business which sought an alternative route to... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

locus of integration typically shifts to the interface with the customer. 6. Be patient for growth but impatient for profitability. Managers inside new-growth businesses often feel tremendous pressure to quickly ramp up sales volume. But... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

07 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus was no exception. Everyone felt a keen sense of loss for a man who was an iconic figure in the worlds of technology,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Iraq: A Land Between Two Rivers No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-041 The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact It... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Too often, there's a huge gap between a company's overall business strategy and the way its salesforce operates in the field. In fact, says Frank V. Cespedes, articles and books about strategy rarely take sales into consideration at all.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic interests into her research. For his part, Zlatev arrived at his PhD in business... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

drugs, and will they be less expensive?' My answer is, 'I don't know, and probably not.' Lechleiter was one of several panelists to discuss, "Breaking the Genetic Code: The Business of Life Science in the 21st Century" at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

the money, or the need for more big science.) Solutions involving gray (built) or green (natural) infrastructure rely on the human infrastructure – the infrastructure for collaboration. Business leaders –... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

conservationist, and a longtime board member and chair of Patagonia. He’s also an investor and co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life-sciences venture firm. From his perspective across so many sectors and industries, Conn sees a business... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

History, Business Law NJ Genny Allard Bergen County Technical School, Teterboro Teterboro, NJ Subjects: Introduction to Law and Justice, Constitutional Law NJ George Alvarez Bergenfield High School Bergenfield, NJ Subjects: US History I... View Details

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Operating Officer of Accion Chicago, a nonprofit that helps communities grow by providing capital, coaching and connections to aspiring entrepreneurs who build businesses and generate jobs in their neighborhoods. I spent most of my career... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

below, Frazier provides insights into this turbulent period of American history with Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal), the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Topics... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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For Alumni - Health Care

For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting faculty with research to helping... View Details

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

back up and running, many women are asking: What’s it going to take to effect real change? According to Tina Opie, visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and author of Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, authors Richard Nolan and Warren McFarlan explored the role of the board of directors in IT governance—and how most "fall into the default mode of applying a set of tacit or explicit rules... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

problem. For some time, the company had to deal with a nationwide shortage of truck drivers. “Young people aren’t going to this business,” said Pietro Satriano, US Foods’ CEO, in a new Harvard Business School case study entitled US Foods:... View Details