Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 10, 2021
Article

How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World

By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman

Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system... View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Social Issues; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Opportunities

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01 Mar 2024
News

Action Plan: Wild at Heart

At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; gardening; entrepreneurship; sustainability

19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

What do Sir Thomas More, Chinua Achebe, and Sophocles have to offer today's business leaders? For MBA students in HBS professor Sandra Sucher's course, The Moral Leader, great literature helps them find... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

21 Apr 2015
News

What will the chief sustainability officer of the future look like?

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

micro-economic strategies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs the resources they need to grow and create more well-paying jobs. One of the most critical of these is... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

distribution chains. Big companies also tap promising ideas for innovation through their relationships with entrepreneurial growth companies, whether as suppliers or as investment targets for corporate venture capital. To help small View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Goldman Sachs

Organization:Annie McMullen, Harvard Business School Recruiter, University Relations Team, Goldman Sachs Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking, securities View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

and the efficacy of various education to employment programs. He co-hosts the popular Managing the Future of Work podcast, which has been downloaded almost two million times. Prior to joining the Harvard View Details

Profile

Christina Byrd

proud of working on Uber’s inaugural fair pay/equal pay analyses – we made sure we were paying men and women, black and white, the same pay for the same performance. I became the go-to equal pay person.”... View Details

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Choosing the Right Student Loan - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram... View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Jun 2022
News

Disrupted by SpaceX, ULA was in ‘serious trouble.’ Now it’s on the road back.

26 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program

around the country, and he credits the HBS Leadership Fellows Program as the springboard that launched his career. Now he is back at Harvard Business School as the Director of the Social Enterprise View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

ways of thinking. It comes down to this: How do you rewrite all the implicit, explicit, and inefficient contracts and relationships that comprise the U.S. industry? To complete the move from such a protected... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

26 Jul 2021
News

The Science of How You Spend Money & How to Set Boundaries People Will Respect

28 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim; Battery; Auto; Electronics; Energy

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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Faculty & Research - Race, Gender & Equity

of the post-MBA paths of Harvard Business School alumni. Study findings have been published in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Poets & Quants, and covered in other... View Details

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

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