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2017
Book

Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details

March 2013
Article

Do You Really Want to Be an eBay?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Most companies that serve as intermediaries between buyers and sellers face a fundamental strategy decision: Should they be resellers (like supermarkets), acquiring and then reselling products or services? Should they operate as multisided platforms (like eBay),... View Details

Keywords: Multi-sided Platforms; Business Models; Strategy; Digital Platforms

2025
Working Paper

An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano

This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details

Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances

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17 Jun 2014
News

Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia

leaders. He also interacted with HBS’s Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning to share case-method teaching strategies with business schools in Greater China. “The road I took to having an impact... View Details

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Polaroid Timeline - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for View Details

June 2016
Teaching Note

N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business

By: David A. Garvin

N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States

Article

The Future of Economic, Business, and Social History

By: G. Jones, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Stephen Broadberry

Three leading scholars in the fields of business, economic, and social history review the current state of these disciplines and reflect on their future trajectory. Geoffrey Jones reviews the development of business history since its birth at the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Economic History; Business History; History; Asia; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America

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BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

with Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty and global experts, we generate insights that shape leadership and policy. Explore key initiatives like The Ownership Project, The Green Industrial Strategy... View Details

2009
Chapter

Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart

Keywords: Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management

07 Apr 2021
News

'Better, Simpler Strategy': A Blueprint for Creating Business Value

28 Feb 2011
News

Harvard Business School Profs on the Health Care Crisis

01 Sep 2017
News

Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

simple question: What was the best piece of business advice you’ve ever received? We’ve compiled their answers for a forthcoming special edition of our Skydeck podcast. Here are a few of our favorites. “Never forget that your employees... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

speeds, and consumer reviews—he uses big data and machine learning to reveal strategies for sustainable growth. Gunther Glenk Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Mannheim Corporate... View Details

October 1999
Case

Intel Labs (B): A New Business Model for Commercializing Research in Photolithography

Intel deployed a creative business model to commercialize its EUV technology in photolithography. This model assigned intellectual property and machine priority in an industry consortium. View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Operations; Research and Development

Educators

30 Jun 2020
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Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

SUMMING UP Do We Need Business School Courses On Inclusion and ‘Voice’? Responses to this month’s column suggest that the issue it raised—recruitment of minority talent into business careers—was somewhat... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

19 Aug 2016
News

Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. The... View Details

Article

Culture Is Not the Culprit: When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business Is Broken

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague

When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its recall crisis in 2014—and ever since, CEO Mary Barra has been focusing on creating "the right environment" to promote... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Cultural Reform; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Business Processes