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02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

fintech lenders harvest deeper insight into those borrowers that banks typically reject after running a standard credit check. Fintech lenders claim to consult additional metrics like utility bills or rent payments to identify... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

people who are very unlike you." The Difference Between Saying And Doing As former marketing manager for female shaving products at Gillette, Avery often utilized principles of "design thinking," moving beyond surveys and focus groups to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

chemical pulp, utilizes planted eucalyptus trees and integration of native habitat to dramatically reduce the land required in wood fiber cultivation. The company also encourages small-scale producers nears its mills - which contribute... View Details

November 2018
Case

Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes

Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European... View Details

Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management; Energy Transmission; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Switzerland

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16 Jun 2023
News

On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)

Our “On the Move” series highlights HBS alumni who are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Here we speak with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), who was announced as EVP of International Strategy & Business Operations for the Professional Fighters League (PFL) MENA region... View Details

Keywords: marketing; career changes; mixed martial arts; sports; MENA; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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HBS - Key Metrics

electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable energy requirements), natural gas... View Details

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

used firm size as a proxy for reputation and utilized uniqueness and political slant indices to account for other company characteristics. The study did not take into account costs or any discounts or marketing efforts targeting new... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

Utility to meet State Renewable Energy Requirements.) HBS has started to reduce our Scope 3 emissions by partially offsetting required academic student air travel, increasing our plant-based food options in our dining venues &... View Details

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

February 2022
Case

NFX Capital and Moov Technologies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco

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22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

electrification—from the car manufacturers and utility companies to government agencies and the public, who often have a say in where and how charging locations are implemented. An ongoing partnership with GM, for example, is enabling... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

beverage company with $90 billion in revenue, $15 billion in profits, and 8,500 brands sold in 197 countries. For most of the 20th century, Nestle enjoyed steady growth and profitability. The company had been early to establish factories in developing countries,... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

teach for 30 minutes. When the professor took the chalk from me, I sat down to enormous applause. Fast-forward 16 years later, the UVA School of Engineering, my alma mater, asked me to teach a class called the Business of Engineering, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

course began, in part, as another test of the utility of the case method—could it work for a younger undergraduate audience, unfamiliar with the case method, and for a broader historical topic? Now in its third year, the hybrid... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

utilize these two years best. I’m passionate about creating opportunities for diverse talent in business and serving as an AASU leader allows me to pursue that passion on campus, right now. 4. Conferences After the conclusion of START,... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

strategy will provide focus to information-gathering and a roadmap for decision-making. Even then, many decisions will have to be made with imperfect data. Flexibility is important. Revisit your conclusions and pivot as needed. Utilizing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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