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- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
1917). Full text available as a networked resource. Wassam, Clarence Wycliffe. The Salary Loan Business in New York City (New York, 1908). Full text available as a networked resource. Credit Men's National Association (U.S.) Retail et al., The Credit World: The... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16
of emotions in collaborative relationships in organizations and suggest that organizational policies can set in motion a cycle of negative emotions that interfere with collaborative work. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
"owners"; and (8) knowing that their current beliefs about the future of services are wrong, great service leaders build agile service organizations that learn, innovate, and adapt. The book explores the ideas and leadership... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
sciences. Survey after survey has found millennials prefer flexible work schedules, with the opportunity to work from home on more than just an occasional basis. These preferences have helped fuel the rise of the “gig economy” and the rapid View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
have distilled six counterintuitive practices these organizations use to improve the world. They offer lessons for readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors, and volunteers. The... View Details
- 16 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)
through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut costs. The experience of rapid... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020
help you achieve this goal, HBS encourages you to put a positive spin on “Hindsight is 2020” as you look ahead with 2020 vision. Hindsight is 2020 Reflecting back on this past year is a great way to move forward. What challenges did your View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
succeed. "Getting the venture capital field off the ground... was as risky as the new industries it would invest in..." author and analyst Kenneth Fisher argues. "[Doriot] staked both reputation and money in an effort to prove his idea was a viable method of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since then, the productivity View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
compelling story or parable, I hope to capture the students’ hearts, their attention. I want to pull them into the experience by painting a picture to which they can relate. When I teach a case like “C&S Grocers,” a story about the dramatic View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
rapidly in importance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52634 The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- January 2009 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com
By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the one they first founded in 2006. Having changed their business model from a social networking site to an... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; China
Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com." Harvard Business School Case 309-060, January 2009. (Revised March 2009.)
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Midnight Networks, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-019, December 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
implement the changes, then you make the big remodel change and become visibly different. And we're actually right at the point of making that transition where we've gotten the new initiatives in place and are beginning to remodel and open new units again. DM: You've... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
employee learning into changes in individual and organization behavior or improved financial performance. Put simply, companies are not getting the return they expect on their investment in training and education. By investing in training... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne