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Cities and Climate Adaptation” Career Focus This course prepares students to invest in, advise, or lead organizations in the context of increasing pressures of global urbanization, resource scarcity, and perils relating to climate change....
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- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
"Often companies don't fully exploit the latest ideas that their product has created," says Ahuja, who wrote the paper with Curba Lampert of Florida International University and Elena Novelli of City University London....
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- 04 Apr 2024
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
and the HBS conference as a major step forward in his water journey, even though, he said, specific discussion about water issues were limited. During a lively case discussion led by HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, he came away thinking: “Miami is the most at-risk...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS
worked together to make a distinctive contribution to the School. "We sensed that many HBS alumnae didn't feel involved with the School," explains Farrington, founder and cochair of StarVest Partners in New York City and a member of the...
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- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
Warning Labels Work! What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism? Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy? Do you pay attention to privacy policies? Share your insights below.
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
country's urban centers. "The consumer in India is far more aware than he ever was," said Jain. It may take time for the "shop 'til you drop" mentality to take firm root in the cities and reach the country's more rural...
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- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
promise to his father, putting the lessons he had learned to good use as he oversaw the family's operations in Fargo. But after three years, he was ready for a change. One possibility was a job offer in New York City with an international...
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- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
energy transition, while another session with Lauren Faber O’Connor, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of LA Mayor’s Office explored urbanization and the future of the grid. In between sessions, the Club encouraged networking in a...
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- 02 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
what you were doing before joining HBS and what inspired you to join the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team. Before coming to HBS, I lived in New York City where I worked in integrated marketing for VH1. During my time at...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
Ethiopia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in January 2017. Students enrolled in Africa: Building Cities divided into eight teams based on their interests and explored ideas for attracting private investment over the next decade in areas such...
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- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
experience physical improvements? In this paper, we introduce a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from time-series street-level imagery. We connect changes in the physical appearance of five U.S. View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
important roles in the passage of child labor laws, union labor campaigns, and City Beautiful movements, for example. But Sawyer notes that Gleason is exceptional in that she didn’t participate in issues considered maternal or those...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 414-078 The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 30
tracks the origins of sweetriot from Sarah's formative early career experiences, to the company's launch and beyond as Sarah prepares future products, establishes production channels, and seeks future funding. Sarah was not content to just be a small New York View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Stadtmuseum. Dusseldorf: Hatje Cantz Verlag (Forthcoming) (Forthcoming) Abstract The article examines how a group of leading Düsseldorf businessmen during the first wave of globalization prior to 1914 helped to leverage the artistic legacy of a quiet, royal residential...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior managers at their headquarters in...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
would spread their own political vision, determined to make women’s equality a reality by fighting—house by house, street by street, city by city—the men who bought and sold women. Based on years of on-the-ground reporting, The Daughters...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
financial functions. Bulletin: We spoke earlier of sophistication; this sounds like research based on very basic principles. Merton: In a way, yes. All of us, whether we live now or a hundred years from now, in New York City or in Bali,...
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- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
and services that are good for the least advantaged parts of society. If we improve healthcare, we can expand access to it. If we have technology for schools, we can level the educational playing field so the distinction between the inner View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
black-white racial classification and facilitated the incorporation of—previously racially ambiguous—European immigrants into the white majority. We exploit variation induced by the interaction between 1900 settlements of southern-born blacks in northern View Details
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Dina Gerdeman