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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-compete status in Michigan, they discovered a natural test bed, thanks to an inadvertent policy change. In 1905, during the initial automotive industry boom, Michigan passed Public Act No. 329, which prohibited "all agreements and... View Details
- November 2011 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
By: Michael W. Toffel and Francesca Gino
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
are taken care of and acting responsibly. The “twist” is that the mission of the National Park Service is not profit driven. The mission is to “preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 2013
- Chapter
Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia
By: Jessica Donovan, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor, Eduard Niesten and Eric Werker
We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We proposed a simple approach that models the costs and... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Revenue; Liberia; Deforestation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Liberia
Donovan, Jessica, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor, Eduard Niesten, and Eric Werker. "Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia." Chap. 19 in The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy, edited by Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz, 293–304. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend.... View Details
- January 2012 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Mexico City Water Shortage
By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James and Frederik Nellemann
In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the... View Details
Macomber, John D., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James, and Frederik Nellemann. "Mexico City Water Shortage." Harvard Business School Case 212-044, January 2012. (Revised January 2014.)
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
future. Gerald Nanninga, for example, commented that "If we deplete resources too quickly, the shortage of supply ... will make conservation issues more financially viable." Some felt that the free market might need some help.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
rise of executive pay over time as a product of efficient markets and argued that the increase merely reflects the growing marginal productivity of chief executives. Unfortunately, this standard defense reflects a broad misconception of both the CEO market and the... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 11 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Business and Environment Initiative
environment; educate MBAs on the value of natural resources and the opportunities of environmental innovations; inform and engage alumni to leverage their expertise relating to environmental issues; and... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- November 2002 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Water Policy Priorities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jose M. M. Porraz
The United States and Mexico face the challenges of managing shared water resources. The supply is limited and demand is growing on both sides of the border as a result of increased irrigated acreage and population growth. View Details
Keywords: Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Mexico
Goldberg, Ray A., and Jose M. M. Porraz. "Water Policy Priorities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border." Harvard Business School Case 903-414, November 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
League in the MIT Sloan Management Review. "As research on the National Football League reveals, sometimes the specific nature of a job determines whether a great performer at one company can replicate that performance at another," they... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
Summing Up: Is Job Ownership Nature or Nurture? Employees increasingly are becoming “job renters.” For some, it is a disturbing trend. It doesn’t have to happen. And the phenomenon isn’t universal. These observations by respondents to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Erik Dyson
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
causing global warming and turn that energy and resources into actually improving our way of life with limited impact on our world." Tom Dolembo questioned whether agreements are necessary. He believes that change driven by... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jared Simon
resources for shelter, increased commerce and trade all enabled population growth, increasing lifespan, and a higher standard of living. However, our gains have come at the expense of tipping the natural... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
will be the sanitary condition of the Ganges? What will India and the world look like economically, politically, and in terms of electricity and water in twelve years? We can put students in the position of the lead administrator and talk about constrained View Details
James R. Moffett
the discovery and exploration of natural resource deposits around the world, especially the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. As CEO, Moffett oversaw a massive growth plan for the combined entities and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining