Business And Society - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2015
HBS Conference

The Business History of India and South Asia: Recent Trends in Research

01 Mar 2014
News

Tata Open for Business

The architects employed open spaces and glass walls in an effort to give Tata Hall a visually light and airy feel. Ratan Tata (second from left) at his namesake building with Dean Nohria, William Rawn, View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

05 Oct 2022
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2022-2023 Kaplan Fellows

02 Sep 2022

Top Business Schools Discuss: India

Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School, Tuck School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management... View Details

18 Jun 2024

Top Business School's Discuss: Trailblazing the Path to Business School

Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of first generation View Details

10 Jul 2023

Top Business Schools Discuss: Trailblazing the Path to Business School

Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of first generation & low income students... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies

“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg View Details

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

10 Sep 2014
HBS Seminar

Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School

16 Nov 2020
News

Harvard Business School Will Move to Remote Instruction and Restrict On-Campus Activities as Virus Cases Surge

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

recent research at Harvard Business School. In "The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community," the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

05 Jun 2008
News

Harvard Business School Celebrates 98th Commencement

November 1981 (Revised May 1985)
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General Electric: Business Development

By: Francis Aguilar and Richard G. Hamermesh

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Diversification

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21 Feb 2012
News

Sustainability Is Good Business

The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

2016
Working Paper

More Effective Sports Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser

Organizations in the field of sports are becoming increasingly dependent on sponsors for their value creation and growth. Studies suggest that sports organizations (rights-holders) often fail to exploit the full potential of such sponsorship partnerships. The aim of... View Details

Keywords: Sponsorship; ＂Sports Organizations,; Case Study; Europe; Business Relationships; Collaborative Marketing; Value Co-creation; Relationship Portfolio Management; Value Creation; Cases; Marketing; Sports; Sports Industry; Europe

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April 27, 2020
Article

A Crisis Playbook for Family Businesses

By: Josh Baron and Ben Francois

In a business crisis, the power of family business owners is magnified. Unlike public companies, which typically focus on maximizing shareholder value, family owners value objectives that usually go well beyond financial returns (e.g., family legacy, reputation). This... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Crisis Management; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships

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15 Feb 2017
News

Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship

05 Mar 2008
News

Harvard Business School Joins 10,000 Women

September 2010 (Revised January 2016)
Case

Grameen Danone Foods Ltd., a Social Business

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Grameen Danone is a joint venture between the Grameen Group (a sister company of Grameen Bank) and Groupe Danone, a $2 billion (revenues) French food company. The company's goal was to provide nutritional yogurt (brand name Shoktidoi) for the nearly 50 million... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Distribution; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Bangladesh; France

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02 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort

sporadically since then, starting with small tasks when I was younger and growing into larger roles like 2D and 3D design now that I’m a senior design student at the University of Cincinnati. With graduation... View Details

January–February 2021
Article

Build a Family Business That Lasts

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer

Judging from how they’re portrayed in the media, it would be easy to dismiss family businesses as hotbeds of power-playing, backstabbing, and favor-currying, ultimately destined to fail; think of the Murdochs and News Corp, or the Redstones and National Amusements, to... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Success; Ownership Type; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Succession

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