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- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
I contemplated what I wanted to do for the second half of my career, it became clear that I wanted to work on climate change issues and help us get to the goal of zero-carbon emissions by 2050,” she recalls....
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Ed Gozonsky (MBA '54), right, spoke to Associate Professor Andrew McAfee and students after attending a class as part of Fellowship Day. HBS changed my life. The education I got here made all the difference,” retired CEO of Alleghany...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
jumped in. One day I was running a company, with an office and employees and a grand strategy, and shortly thereafter, I was sitting alone in my home office, interviewing Americans about how they were voting and why, digging into everything from how they grew up to how...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current...
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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
safe, and with sudden shifts in customer behavior. Of course, the business environment was changing rapidly before 2020. Globalization, new technologies, climate change, and other trends were already...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
development cycles and can't respond in mid-project to changing customer needs. But there's a solution to this dilemma, according to HBS assistant professor Stefan H. Thomke and Donald G. Reinertsen (MBA '79) of Reinertsen & Associates in...
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Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- Profile
Fangfang Wang
festival” to inspire consumer interest. Using private sector techniques to reach public sector goals Earlier in her career, when Fangfang had served as an assistant to the United Nation’s Development Program, she realized that the U.N.’s millennial goals for addressing...
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- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
companies while US doesn’t have these types of companies and therefore the industry-specific materiality map may not be applicable. Another challenge is the lack of data and company disclosure in Asia makes quantitative analysis very difficult. However, we are starting...
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- April 3, 2023
- Article
Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Stefan Reichelstein
E-liability accounting is a new technique that will help customers factor in a product’s environmental footprint into their purchasing decisions and will help create a competition dynamic that leads to reduced carbon outputs. This article describes two pilot studies—by...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Karthik Ramanna, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 3, 2023).
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
exports - Sachs analyzed the area's long-term economic situation. He then asserted that the root of Africa's problems were inherent in its geography and climate. Using various maps illustrating the world's major climate zones, coastal...
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Susan Young
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Apple’s iPhone Revolution: Pioneering the Circular Economy
By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case 123-089. The case describes the Trade-In system for iPhones that allow iPhones to be refurbished and reused or to be recycled. The case provides information for the students to analyze the financial attractiveness of the Trade-In system and...
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- February 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
China Shenhua Energy Company
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, G. A. Donovan and Keith Chi-ho Wong
A leading Chinese energy firm, active in coal mining and electric power generation, analyzes coal-to-liquids technology in light of energy security and environmental concerns.
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Environment;
China;
CO2;
Coal Mining;
Electricity;
Sustainability;
Energy;
Strategy;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
China;
Asia
Reinhardt, Forest L., G. A. Donovan, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "China Shenhua Energy Company." Harvard Business School Case 715-026, February 2015. (Revised March 2016.)
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for example, climate...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their businesses for...
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Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
ourselves. May 2015 Journal of Marketing BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment By: Karmarkar, Uma R., and Bryan Bollinger Abstract—As concerns about pollution and climate View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
but also ensures that the rules of the game are such that prosperity is widely shared and that problems like climate change are adequately addressed. How does democracy affect the power balance that enables...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing...
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- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
change fast enough for the U.S. to have the workers it needs in any near-term way.” Tema Frank went even further, commenting that “ we are still reliant on the human factor so a lot of potential productivity is wasted through bad...
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