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21 Apr 2015
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The $70,000 CEO Is The Business Leader Of The Future

August 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Case

Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative at the Ten-Year Mark, The

By: James E. Austin, Stacey M. Childress and Cate Reavis

In mid-2003, as the 10-year anniversary of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative approached, the group's faculty and staff decided to analyze its past performance and to formulate its future strategy. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise

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01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

up with Margaret Glover, she had just left her position as director of planning and information services for Clean Sites, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit involved in hazardous-waste cleanup, to... View Details

18 Dec 2019
News

The Pessimism of Harvard Business School Alumni

February 1992 (Revised September 2019)
Case

The House of Tata

By: James E. Austin and Ashish Nanda

The case traces the evolution of the Tata group, one of the largest and highly respected Indian business houses, from its 19th century founding and early growth in diverse industries, to its response to changes in government regulation in independent India, up to its... View Details

Keywords: Indian Economy; International Business; Government And Business; Government Regulation; Synergy; Conglomerates; Business Conglomerates; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Steel Industry; Electronics Industry; Chemical Industry; Insurance Industry; Air Transportation Industry; India

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March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
Teaching Note

Group Functions at the Maersk Group

By: David J. Collis

In 2014, seven years after he was appointed CEO of the Danish shipping and oil conglomerate A.P. Møller Maersk (the Maersk Group), Nils Andersen was reexamining the size and role of corporate headquarters in the company he had reshaped as a "premium conglomerate."... View Details

Keywords: Maersk; Business Units; Conglomerates; Decentralization; Core Business; Value Added; Synergy; Headquarters; Shipping; Petroleum; Oil And Gas; Drilling; Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Denmark

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16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

choices, those efforts should be enough to change your behavior. If you know the consequences but still get fat, you must want to be overweight. “Losing $100 is more painful than gaining $100 is pleasurable” View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2016
News

Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs

rental clothes to clients, was comical at times. “I was trying to convince a roomful of men in blue button-down shirts why wearing a new outfit everyday would empower them,” she said. Hyman said View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Hello Alfred; Retail Trade; Finance

February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
Module Note

The Entrepreneurial Manager, Module I: Defining and Developing the Business Model

By: William R. Kerr, Mark Roberge and Paul A. Gompers

The first module of The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) focuses on business model analysis and lean testing. Your business model defines your company and sets its strategic direction, including customer value proposition, operations, scaling, the context in which the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Business Models; Lean Startup; Business Model; Analysis; Entrepreneurship; Management

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12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

before—coordinating all the top minds in the top office. "CEOs are spending more and more time with their direct reports, in larger and longer meetings," says Julie M. Wulf, an associate professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel