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  • February 2024
  • Supplement

Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B10): Pittsburgh Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin P. Scibetta and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
Keywords: Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Climate Finance; Mobility; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Sustainable Cities; City; Innovation Strategy; Investment; United States; Pittsburgh
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  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

company so dedicated to reinventing agriculture to be more sustainable and less polluting use planet-friendly packaging? It wasn’t an oversight. As founder Viraj Puri recalls, when the company was starting out, his team researched... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

strategy and internal organizational capability are both critical sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Q: To what extent does the diversity of PGL's participants add to the experience? A: The... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract Although there's ample research to guide marketers in naming new products, little of it has addressed follow-on offerings, even though these make up the bulk of new products in many industries. Companies have two basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Field Course: Business Plans for Innovating in Health Care, Q2 - Course Catalog

in Health Care” (Course 2815, Fall Q1), which is a prerequisite to this course. Students can expect to: Review their existing business plan , its opportunities and challenges, and develop strategies for View Details
  • Web

Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, 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 Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter. In assessing an immediate path forward, both liberal and conservative business leaders urged compromise to secure a sustainable federal budget, corporate tax reform, and the easing of... View Details
  • April 1994 (Revised January 1995)
  • Case

StarKist (A)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
Set in April 1990, this case focuses on H.J. Heinz and its subsidiary, StarKist, the largest producer of canned tuna in the United States. During the 1980s, the public became increasingly concerned about tuna fishing practices that killed dolphins. StarKist was the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Laws and Statutes; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Environmental Sustainability; Competition; Mexico; United States
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

making. Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms helps participants understand how to create sustainable value whether competing as, with, or against digital platforms, while Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual looks at advancements in AI... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

creation because of three reasons. First, the art itself (the "product" so to speak) was produced since the late 1940s in India although it had not been systematically traded in a sustained manner in international art markets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • January 1989 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

Du Pont Freon Products Division (A)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
In 1988, the Du Pont Co. is abruptly confronted with solid scientific evidence that chlorofluorocarbons are destroying the earth's ozone shield. Du Pont, with its Freon brand product line serving markets for foam insulation, electronics solvents, and especially... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Policy; Management; Brands and Branding; Production; Service Operations; Natural Environment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 07 Aug 2019
  • News

“The Star of the North”

1994), director of strategy services Joanne Kudrna (MBA 1981), and partner Shelly Bauerly Kopel—and they will tell you Granite Equity looks for companies that value employee wellness (they want their people to be happy, healthy, and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

an in-depth analysis of the opportunities and challenges, both traditional and contemporary, of doing business in India. Great Service Made Simple by Frederic B. Sargent (OPM 2) (The Sustainable Service Institute) A short story with... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Ready for Launch

lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in villages in Tanzania to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

and physical assets, not creating social value." Higher-ambition leaders, as the authors call them, also make decisions about long-term relationships with all their stakeholders in mind. "Consider United Stationers' strategy of 'enabling... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

from research on companies and teams that have sustained success or deteriorated in their performance, as well as research on the leadership and culture in organizations that endure over time. The focus is on complex interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

heart of the enterprise. And that's what I found. For companies like IBM and Procter & Gamble, this is definitely at the heart of the enterprise. The Japanese company Omron has sustained itself since its founding on principles and on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 16, 2023
  • Article

How a Defined Purpose Drove Unilever’s Turnaround

By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel