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- June 2024
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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project
By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Environmental Regulation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Natural Environment;
Weather;
Sustainable Cities;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Construction;
Property;
Infrastructure;
Capital Budgeting;
Projects;
Project Finance;
Negotiation;
United States;
Maine
Ruback, Richard S., Matthew Preble, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 224-735, June 2024.
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
530m+ In collective funding 2024–25 Fellows Narek Dshkhunyan MBA 2024 Narek Dshkhunyan is the CEO and co-founder of SANSO, a biomanufacturing startup aiming to make biologics more accessible to patients worldwide. Sanso was created to commercialize the microporous...
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- 29 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
as well as a hiring decision based on a candidate’s performance during a university job interview. In a final study, the researchers allowed participants to generate their own journey lines by watching a trailer for a movie not yet in theaters at the time, such as...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
global transtion to a net zero energy world. The proposed billion dollar project consists of wind and solar resources to generate electricity, as well as an electrolyzer component that could use that electricity to convert water to its...
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HBS - Key Metrics
(metric tons of CO2 equivalent) 10,547 9,098 9,103 11,562 11,614 Energy (kbtu) 8 138,198,893 121,948,442 122,569,467 150,713,824 152,538,748 Water (100 cubic feet) 9 48,244 32,735 40,754 51,025 48,626 Municipal Solid Waste (tons) 10...
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- February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Phu My Hung
By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic...
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Macomber, John, and Dawn H. Lau. "Phu My Hung." Harvard Business School Case 213-098, February 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- March 2017
- Case
Cantel Medical
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier....
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Cantel;
Charles Diker;
Furniture Industry;
Matrix Organization;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Chemicals;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business History;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Research and Development;
Opportunities;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Information Technology;
Biotechnology Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Health Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
New Jersey
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Cantel Medical." Harvard Business School Case 717-482, March 2017.
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been...
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Adan Acevedo
Every evening my father walked through the kitchen, caressed my mother’s shoulder as she prepared dinner, and headed to the backyard. He unraveled the hose, screwed on the attachment, and started to water the plants he loved so much. I...
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About - Business & Environment
agencies such as the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority and Rocky Mountain Institute. Elise Clarkson Community Manager Elise is the community manager of the Business and Environment Initiative. She manages core activities of the BEI...
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Clubs - Business & Environment
Prize. MIT Energy & Climate Club Connects students, alumni, and community members who are passionate about energy and climate change. MIT Food & Agriculture Club Brings together students – and other MIT community members – to coordinate and support work in the areas of...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
trouble letting go, he gave us freedom to sink or swim." The brothers have pursued a strategy of maintaining Ayala's core strength—extensive, large-scale, high-end real estate development in and around Manila—while expanding their investments in the middle market real...
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- September 21, 2013
- Other Article
Redefining Global Health-care Delivery
By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best...
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Health
Kim, Jim Yong, Paul E. Farmer, and Michael E. Porter. "Redefining Global Health-care Delivery." Lancet 382, no. 9897 (September 21, 2013).
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HBS - The year in Review
Hall irrigation water was supplied by a rain water tank in calendar year 2021. 9 green roofs on campus assisted with stormwater management, which helped reduce pollution in the Charles River. 4 beehives...
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
affordable, immediate, and scalable to the size of the problem.” David Perry HBS MBA 1997 CEO, Indigo Ag Danielle Amirault HBS MBA 2020 Co-President, Food, Agriculture, & Water Club “Changing the way we eat is necessary to address climate...
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- March 2013
- Teaching Note
Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) (TN)
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble
In December 2012, Hans Jöhr, Nestlé's head of corporate agriculture, was preparing to meet with the company's board of directors to discuss its vision for the future related to sustainable agriculture. Nestlé's continued success depended on its ability to access the...
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- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
extreme heat, loss of the Web or telephone lines, disruption in the water supply). 2. A flexible set of response modules. Leaders should be able to pull combinations of pre-set response "modules" off the shelf. Modularizing the...
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by Michael Watkins
- 17 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)
impact in defending our country. And I was able to do just that by driving a billion-dollar warship in contested waters and communicating with our allies to protect the nation’s interests. Even though I appreciated the responsibility, I...
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- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
Jamie_Hall Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods last August was the corporate equivalent of mixing tap water with organic extra virgin olive oil. You’d be hard-pressed to find two companies with more different value propositions. Even so,...
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