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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart)  Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms... View Details
  • February 2003
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The Emergence and Sustainability of Abnormal Profits

By: Michael E. Porter and Anita M. McGahan
In this paper, we examine the emergence and the sustainability of abnormal profits among businesses that were part of U.S. public corporations between 1981 and 1994 and that reported financial results for at least six years. Our results reveal strong asymmetries... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; United States
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    Strategies for Two-Sided Markets

    Many blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape are built around platforms that tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Examples include credit cards that link consumers and merchants; operating systems that... View Details

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    MBA Required Curriculum-- Strategy Course

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

    The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:

    • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
    • How to generate superior value for customers... View Details
    • 10 Apr 2025
    • News

    Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation

    • March 2022
    • Teaching Note

    Sustainable Product Management at Solvay

    By: George Serafeim
    This teaching note is designed to be used in conjunction with the case “Sustainable Product Management at Solvay,” HBS No.120-081 and its related products to help faculty deepen students’ comprehension of business issues and energize classroom discussion. View Details
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    • February 2013
    • Article

    Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems

    By: Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis
    Firms producing multi-technology, multi-component systems are increasingly outsourcing selected components to achieve both reduced cost and enhanced innovation benefits. Given typical inter-dependence between innovation at the system and component levels, an important... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Alignment; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry
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    • 7 PM – 11 PM EDT, 10 Oct 2018

    HBX Strategy Execution

    Identify and solve your company's strategic challenges with an exclusive group of like-minded senior leaders via HBX Live, a real-time, interactive online classroom. Program Dates: October 10, 2018 - November 7, 2018 View Details
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    Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Professor Michael Porter retired from the Harvard Business School faculty on November 30, 2023. Harvard Business Review: Smart, Connected Products Health Care: Value-Based Health Care U.S. COMPETITIVENESS: Competition in the Politics Industry The Institute for... View Details
    • December 2012 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    Developing the Materiality Matrix at Telefónica

    By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Asun Cano-Escoriaza
    Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the world and headquartered in Spain, has been issuing a corporate sustainability report since 2002. In its 2011 Sustainability report, the company included a "materiality matrix," and was one of only five... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainable Strategy; CSR; Corporate Social Responsibility; Communication Technology; Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Telecommunications Industry; Spain
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    • November 2011 (Revised June 2013)
    • Case

    Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd: Linking Compensation to Sustainability Metrics

    Robert Venter, second-generation Chief Executive (CE) of family-owned Allied Electronics Corporation Ltd (Altron), considered the pros and cons of more clearly linking the firm's compensation system to sustainability performance. In June 2011, Altron, a conglomerate... View Details
    Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Environmental Sustainability
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    • July 1997
    • Background Note

    Sustaining Superior Performance: Commitments and Capabilities

    By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Gary P. Pisano
    Presents evidence on the unsustainability of many competitive advantages, reviews the typical threats to the sustainability, and discusses ways in which those threats can be combatted. View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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    • June 2008
    • Teaching Note

    Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard (TN)

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    Teaching Note for [inse107038]. View Details
    Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Performance; Groups and Teams; Management Systems; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

    By: Rebecca Henderson
    Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?... View Details
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    • 27 May 2015
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    You Need an Innovation Strategy

    • 2019
    • Book

    Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change
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    • 20 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Chemical
    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
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    • 11 Jun 2015
    • News

    Leading the way in sustainable style

    pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through View Details
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    Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

    online course on Sustainable Investing.” Andrew Buks Instructor of Management & Business Policy and Strategy at School of Business, Black Hills State University Develop practical skills you can apply to one... View Details