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- January 2025
- Teaching Note
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Chairman and CEO of KPMG, the firm made a number of changes in compensation, governance, and culture in order to address the underlying reasons for actions that occurred prior to him becoming CEO that led to the accounting giant paying $456 million to the federal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
adopting business practices. Helping students, alumni, outside business leaders, and nonprofit managers develop skills and innovations they can apply to the social sector is one of the main goals of the Initiative on Social Enterprise, an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents reported having View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational cultures are varied, and participants have clashing or even antagonistic perspectives. I have studied more than a dozen cross-industry innovation projects, among them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter Tufano Difficult, but doable, with... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243 forthcoming View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
is organizational behavior/leadership. Part of the problem is the current corporate climate, in which questions of governance and financial purity dominate CEOs' and boards' attention. Additionally, boards, and even CEOs, have been lulled... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
processes, examples, and case studies offering an effective framework in which to transform healthcare systems. It helps leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Competing Against Luck: The Story of View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
the International Economy, edited by Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons, 227-239. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010 Purchase the book: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5625 Government and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
that economic tools of supply and demand can be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public, legitimizing their... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
leadership of the Costa Rica–based university in January 2017. To this most recent task, he brings his entrepreneurial mindset, global perspective, and firm belief in the power of young people to change the world. The innovative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit entrepreneurial managers. But... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
these other sectors, there is a need for more innovation in both government policy and business strategy. "America Needs a Chief Strategy Officer Authors:Andy Zelleke and Justin Talbot Zorn... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details