Government And Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

imagination, and plain old hard work). The third component, and the one with the greatest implications for business environments, is what Amabile terms "intrinsic... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

business plan and its relation to new venture formation. I tried to explain that a business plan can't be a tightly crafted prediction of the future but rather a depiction of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

22 May 2024
News

Harvard Business School Announces 2024-25 Leadership Fellows

13 Nov 2017
News

Carrum Health Wins Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School Health Acceleration Challenge

Video

Harvard Business School Commencement 2012

23 Mar 2015
News

Business Icons Porter and Rivkin on Inequality: ‘It Undermines The American Dream’

29 Sep 2022

Top Business Schools Discuss: From Europe to Business School

Join The Wharton School, Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford GSB, Tuck School of... View Details

25 Sep 2016
News

This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 — and it helped business

Web

Harvard Business School

Organization Andy Zelleke (PhD) 2003 Freedom and Constraint: The Design of Governance and Leadership Structures in British and American Firms... View Details

1998
Working Paper

Policy Shocks, Market Intermediaries, and Corporate Strategy: The Evolution of Business Groups in Chile and India

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Citation

13 Mar 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

Keywords: by Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim

24 May 2012
News

Businesses need an image repair

June 2010 (Revised April 2011)
Case

Continental Media Group: Business Highlights

By: Robert L. Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg

Continental Media Group has a series of business reviews struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation of new strategies. The interactive system used by top... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Risk Management; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

June 1997
Background Note

The Normative Foundations of Business

What is the appropriate role for business to play in a capitalist society? In analyzing responses to this question, this note distinguishes two separate dimensions. The first involves the distinctive objective of business as a social institution, considers the pros and... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Economic Systems

Citation

Educators

Purchase

1989
Book

British Business in Asia since 1860

By: G. Jones and R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

This book examines the historical experience of British business in Asia since 1860. Chapters on Iran, India, Thailand, Malayasia, China, Russian Asia and Japan explore the British impact on the region, and the relationship between British business and British and... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; India; Iran; Japan; Malaysia; Thailand; Great Britain

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase

Research Summary

The Business of Stem Cells

By: Debora L. Spar

In 2004, the topic of stem cell research made both medical and moral headlines. Buoyed by a series of technological breakthroughs, stem cell scientists grew increasingly convinced that they would eventually be able to use embryonic stem cells -- the pluripotent cells... View Details

2014
Working Paper

The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research

By: George Serafeim

A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details