General Management
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- 2025
- Chapter
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America
By: Geoffrey JonesThis chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite in Latin America, at the cost of large-scale destruction of the natural environment. During the so-called Great Reversal between 1929 and 1979, strategies to catch up resulted in the proliferation of hydro-electric schemes which caused further environmental damage co-created by business and governments. As globalization resumed from the 1980s, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of waste in increasingly polluted cities. However ecological horror stories also created opportunities for a cohort of green businesses across sectors ranging from beauty and health to eco-tourism.
- 2025
- Chapter
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America
By: Geoffrey JonesThis chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite...
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- January 2025
- Case
DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation
By: William C. Kirby and Daniel FuDJI was founded in a college dorm room in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. By 2020, DJI, a company manufacturing drones, occupied a 77% share of consumer drone sales in the United States with a wide array of clients including law enforcement and government agencies. Its drones were used in everything from filming Hollywood movies in California to growing crops in Iowa. DJI’s success in the United States, however, brought scrutiny. In Washington, an array of concerns existed regarding technologies sourced from China as inter-state rivalry grew increasingly acute. How should DJI, facing ever-increasing scrutiny, seek to defend itself against Washington? How should it prepare itself for and react to a potential ban on its products in the United States? Should it follow in the footsteps of companies such as Huawei and largely retrench from the American market?
- January 2025
- Case
DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation
By: William C. Kirby and Daniel FuDJI was founded in a college dorm room in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. By 2020, DJI, a company manufacturing drones, occupied a 77% share of consumer drone sales in the United States with a wide array of clients including law enforcement and government agencies. Its drones were used in everything from filming Hollywood movies in California to...
About the Unit
The General Management Unit is concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses:
- the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders;
- the philosophies, values, and strategies that inform successful enterprises; and
- the relation of enterprise to the broader community and other external constituencies.
The Unit's work is conceived and carried out principally in four interest groups, each of which has its own leadership, research agenda, and teaching programs:
- Management Policy and Process
- Management Information Systems
- Society and Enterprise
- Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility
Recent Publications
How to Build a Life: The Benefit of Doing Things You’re Bad At
- January 30, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America
- 2025 |
- Chapter |
- Faculty Research
Transitioning from Responsible and Reactive to Deeply Responsible and Proactive International Business
- January–March 2025 |
- Article |
- Critical Perspectives on International Business
How to Build a Life: How My Struggle with Wittgenstein Can Make You Happier
- January 23, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
DJI- Striving for Innovation Amid Contestation
- January 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
A High-Tech Revolution with Chinese Characteristics: China's Drive Towards EV Supremacy
- January 2025 (Revised February 2025) |
- Background Note |
- Faculty Research
Sale of Private-Equity Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover
- 2025 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
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