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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

25 Jan 2024
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Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest

focus is corporate governance and valuation, and he serves as course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum. He is also a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and an associate editor of Management View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

May 2014 (Revised March 2017)
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Unilever's Lifebuoy in India: Implementing the Sustainability Plan

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Unilever's new Global Brand VP must not only revitalize Lifebuoy soap's sagging market performance, but simultaneously impact the health of one billion people worldwide. The latter challenge comes from Unilever's new CEO who has introduced the Unilever Sustainable... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Management; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy Implementation; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Change Management; International Business; Global; Fast-moving Consumer Goods; Soap; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Health Industry; India

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2022
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Tesla's Battery Supply Chain: A Growing Concern

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

In October 2021, the fictional vice president of supply chain sustainability at Tesla is working on finding the best way to achieve Tesla's goal of 100% recycling for the batteries in its electric vehicles (EVs) as they reach their end of life. A major challenge in... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Metals and Minerals; Auto Industry

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January 2022
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Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen

By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar

In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and... View Details

Keywords: Green Hydrogen; Energy; Climate Change; Supply Chain; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology; Projects; Alliances; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East; North Africa

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21 Feb 2005
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Is Business Management a Profession?

since the Middle Ages by the rise and ongoing progress of modern science. The development of the germ theory of disease in the nineteenth century, for example, and of the science of genetics in the twentieth, have gone into the formation... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

04 Jul 2005
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How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

whether business schools in general have lost their relevance by following "the scientific model" of graduate schools of arts and science as opposed to "the professional model" of medical and law schools. The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

January 2022 (Revised January 2024)
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ReNew Power: Leading the Energy Transition in India

By: Gunnar Trumbull and Malini Sen

Founder-CEO of one of India’s largest clean energy companies, ReNew Power, which develops, builds, and operates utility-scale wind and solar energy projects, has to decide the way forward for the company as the country and the world stand poised at the cusp of an... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Energy Sources; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Forecasting and Prediction; Trends; Transformation; Private Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; India; Asia

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27 Oct 2015
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The Art of the Pitch: To Brag or Not to Brag

08 Mar 2022
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Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

2022) Halperin, a student in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, is the co-president of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Women’s Student Association, social chair of the MS/MBA program, and the international representative of... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

White Paper Competition for “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz. 2023 Zoe B. Cullen : Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Accounting for Organizational Employment Impact

Keywords: by David Freiberg, Katie Panella, George Serafeim, and T. Robert Zochowski

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

assistance of Richard Kriebel, Land presented the science behind his invention in a series of engaging public forums. In 1936, the young entrepreneur introduced his synthetic light polarizing discs at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New... View Details

20 May 2022
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Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

plant kingdom. What is Nucleate Eco? What are the requirements to apply? Sutton: Nucleate Eco is a student-lead, no equity, accelerator for student companies focused on applying life sciences principles to sustainability challenges.... View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

U V W X Y Z # A A.T. Kearney, Inc. Abbott ABILITY Network, Inc. Abpro Accolade Adimab, Inc. Advance Technological Radiology PA Advantage Healthcare Inc. Advocates Aetna Agilent Technologies AGION Technologies Aledade Alkermes Allen Institute for Brain View Details

03 Dec 2021
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Physicians Off the Beaten Path

Youssef is a medical doctor and the first Syrian Rhodes Scholar. He has an MD from Syria, an MSc in International Health at Oxford and is currently doing an MBA at Harvard Business School along with a PhD in computer science (clinical AI)... View Details

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Patent search: A comparative table of databases

staff). Pitchbook: patent data related to Pitchbook covered companies (HUKey and individual account set up required) SciFinder: chemistry and chemical engineering. (HUKey required) Web of Science: provides patents that are associated with articles... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
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Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns

Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details