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- January 2009
- Case
Supersonic Business Jets
By: Dennis A. Yao and Julia Rozovsky
In the fall of 2002, Brian Barents, ex-CEO of Galaxy Aerospace, faced an important decision: whether or not to enter the supersonic business jet (SSBJ) industry. Supersonic flight-flight faster than the speed of sound-had long tantalized leaders of commercial aerospace... View Details
- 10 Oct 2010
- News
Doing better business
- 08 Aug 2017
- News
Changing Business Digitally
- 25 Apr 2012
- News
Harvard Business School Holds 16th Annual Business Plan Contest
- 07 May 2008
- News
Harvard Business School Hosts Business and Human Rights Conference
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
Before she became a comedy writer, Claire Friedman (MBA 2014) followed the path of any good econ major, working at Goldman Sachs for five years and enrolling at HBS with plans to go into the business side of entertainment. While working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Jul 2010
- News
Business School Boost
- Web
Fellowships - Business History
Fellowships Fellowships The Business History Initiative offers several fellowships and grants The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History This award honors the work and contributions of Thomas... View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
Business History
By: N. F. Koehn, T. K. McCraw and H. V. Nelles
Keywords: Business History
- Research Summary
Business history
Espen Storli is currently working on a project on commodity trading in the post-WWII period, with a special interest in the political economy of the world mercury markets. He is also one of the editors of a forthcoming book on the global economic history of bauxite. View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- News
Global Business
- 14 Nov 2023
Top Business Schools Discuss: Women in Business
Join representatives from Harvard Business School, UCLA Anderson School of Management, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Columbia Business School, University of Virginia Darden School of... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- News
Starting a Business is Easy (for Harvard Business Grads)
- 13 May 2015
- News
6 Reasons Businesses Are Rejected for Small Business Loans
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Business School, Disrupted
- December 2011 (Revised October 2014)
- Background Note
Business Model Analysis for Entrepreneurs
By: Thomas Eisenmann
This note defines a business model and its major elements: a customer value proposition, a technology and operations management plan, a go-to-market plan, and a profit formula. For each element, the note lists questions that an entrepreneur must address when evaluating... View Details
Keywords: Business Model
Eisenmann, Thomas. "Business Model Analysis for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Background Note 812-096, December 2011. (Revised October 2014.)
- April 2017
- Article
The Responsibilities and Role of Business in Relation to Society: Back to Basics?
By: Nien-he Hsieh
In this address, I outline a back-to-basics approach to specifying the responsibilities and role of business in relation to society. Three “basics” comprise the approach. The first is arguing that basic principles of ordinary morality, such as a duty not to harm,... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Corporate Responsibility; Harm; Human Rights; Institutions; Pareto Efficiency; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Moral Sensibility; Society; Rights
Hsieh, Nien-he. "The Responsibilities and Role of Business in Relation to Society: Back to Basics?" Business Ethics Quarterly 27, no. 2 (April 2017): 293–314.
- June 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Case
Doing Business in Lima, Peru
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Max Hancock
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Peru. It highlights Peru's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main obstacles... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Peru; Latin America
Polzer, Jeffrey T., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Max Hancock. "Doing Business in Lima, Peru." Harvard Business School Case 323-050, June 2023. (Revised February 2025.)
- 07 Jun 2009
- News