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- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation, 1922–1966... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis
Keywords: by Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche
- 2004
- Book
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses
By: Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene and Myra M. Hart
Brush, Candida G., Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene, and Myra M. Hart. Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004.
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
Qcells, General Electric Vernova, Enel Green Power Equitable access to resources: Chargerhelp!, BlocPower, Volta Financial investment: Bank of America Conclusions U.S. policies provide an opportunity for View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Consumer Resilience BIO True sustainability is both green (energy/environment) and resilient (hazard-resistant/continuing). Destroyed green assets are a double loss. Non-resilient development burdens... View Details
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
Norton, an associate professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. "But we didn't know if the ritual caused the healing." “We see in every culture—and throughout history—that people who perform rituals report... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- April 2021
- Teaching Note
GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In June 2020, after ten years of effort, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) demonstrated its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™. While conventional geothermal electricity only supplied 0.5% of US demand, the new technology promised to increase this... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Consumer Power; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Healthcare; Transition; Transformation; Trends; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Information; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Management; Marketing; Markets; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; South America; North and Central America; Middle East; Europe; Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
what effective green industrial policy might look like as well as pitfalls such as international conflict to help mobilize effective business investments to create and grow markets for low-carbon... View Details
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the Business in Society track. Introduction to Business and Climate Change LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
entirely new. One of the best parts about HBS is its business history classes. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism — better known as EGC — follows different entrepreneurs around the world, one case at a time. What led to success? To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Summing Up Crucibles of leadership are where you find them—or they find you. And business schools rarely create them, at least according to the respondents to the October column. Perry Miles put it most succinctly when he said, "A... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of View Details