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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
HBP’s production costs plus a small amount of spending related to the School’s printed materials and publications. HBP’s continuing growth in a fast-changing and highly competitive publishing environment reflects, in part, the success of...
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
the face of great uncertainty and massively imperfect information. How does one, often with relatively little experience, develop and exercise the judgement to make these decisions? This course will lead a discussion around The Founder Mindset and the characteristics...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
shoppers deliberating over a luxury goods purchase. “Marketers can convince consumers that buying their product is actually a farsighted behavior,” she observes. “In that sense, consumers are investing in future memories.” —JH Tsedal Neeley View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
developed an imaging material comparable to paper, it would need to partner with others to build the display modules, handheld devices, digital content libraries, and e-commerce services to take advantage of...
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- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive...
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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
decisions were discussed and made. Then she moved to expand her risk management process throughout the bank. She handed out 10,000 booklets that presented the department's view and expertise in areas including market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. All the...
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- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
either recycling these components externally or reincorporating the material back into the Grundfos supply chain. Although the scale of the recycling program is still in its pilot phase and volume is low, the future potential is...
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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Eric%20Werker%20RR%20final.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-024 Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company In...
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Anna Secino
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
fosters a process of personalization of management learning. This process allows management education to provide the foundations for leaders' development by transforming potentially regressive MBA experiences into rich material for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers,...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase than on a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
private equity, eventually left Lehman to join Oakhill Partners in 1990, and then cofounded an independent investment banking advisory firm, Evercore Partners, in 1995. And while Offensend was building his career in finance, he also...
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- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
and dispose of them. The circular economy uses what is already there, which saves on the extraction and processing piece, then keeps those materials in the system. If you can avoid both extraction and waste disposal costs, it can create...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
investment in a nonprofit was handled strategically it would yield a greater impact for the people served. In an organization with compelling leadership, vision, and evidence of outcomes that were making a material difference in the lives...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
development of Project Bison, a planned direct air capture (DAC) facility in southwest Wyoming. Our strategy is focused on what we’re calling “modular open system architecture.” We are trying to build as much modularity into our system as...
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Maxeme Tuchman
and creating the NYC Service Office. Building credibility from both sides "My family didn't have money or a ‘professional network,'" Max says. "I've always been helped by people who mentored me." Recognizing her...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
differences-revealing the business strategies and practices they pioneered while building their firms. David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano have studied these three leaders and their companies for more than 30 years, while teaching...
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Sean Silverthorne