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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

and creatively to develop business solutions that mitigate climate change Explore climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts’ scalability, costs, and benefits to inform... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Article

Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke
A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry
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  • November 2003 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

Brazil at the Wheel

By: Geoffrey Jones
Taught in the second-year MBA elective on the Evolution of Global Business. Examines the costs and benefits of the Brazilian government's policies to encourage foreign multinationals to develop an automobile industry during the 1950s. A combination of incentives and... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Government and Politics; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Auto Industry; Brazil
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  • 15 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

numerous imitators, as often was the problem in the late 1990s, when the funding of "me too" firms became commonplace. Q: Is the nature of the venture capitalist changing? That is, if Arthur Rock View Details
Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services
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What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully

By: Willy C. Shih
The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing Costs; Manufacturing Strategy; U.S. Competitiveness; Competitiveness; Labor Force Participation; Labor Management; Trade; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Manufacturing Industry; United States; China
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
  • January 1973 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Tyler Abrasives, Inc.

Involves multinational pricing policy. Should a multinational industrial products supplier, with plants on several continents, grant a single worldwide price on given products to multinational customers who purchase on several continents? If so, what should the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Marketing Strategy; Price; Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Industrial Products Industry
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

This article considers key issues relating to the organization and performance of large multinational firms in the post-Second World War period. Although foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

Keywords: by Valeria Giacomin
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

Partners at major consultancies, who recognized that many MBAs arrive unprepared amid a changing professional services landscape. The course design also builds on the historically successful EC course Professional Firm View Details
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021), Rebel One Ventures: I am working with at an impact venture capital firm that funds founders of color and solutions that help to address inequality in financial services, education,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • September 2010
  • Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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  • 24 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

ESG—factors), both because of its importance to socially conscious investors and as an indicator of long-term corporate health. Firms such as Morgan Stanley Capital International crunch hundreds of factors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Management Proceedings Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations By: Reiche, B.S., T.B. Neeley, and N. Overmeyer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • News

How migration makes the world brainier

  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White