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  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's energy think tank polled investment... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our analysis in the context of an inventory stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

James McNerney Jr.

governments and have the capacity to recruit people from all over the world who will feel comfortable in your organization. You have to make them feel that they can contribute. That’s the biggest challenge, I think. American companies... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this microprocess research. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

organizations. With more than 18,000 members, Allen’s congregation is the largest in the state of New York; the 2,500-seat Greater Allen Cathedral, the organization’s centerpiece and the site of Reed’s office, regularly fills to capacity... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

executives—including those who already possess an MBA or advanced business degree—a foundational understanding of quantitative analysis and data science. “Data and data analytics are transforming industries across the board,” says HBAP... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

second only to the manufacturing industry. The analysis also showed that energy producers started making substantial investments in renewable energy long before sustainable investing and ESG scores existed. Even more telling, Cohen says,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the organization, by making investments in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53459 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy An Invitation to Market Design By: Kominers, Scott Duke, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford Abstract—Market design seeks to translate economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

task, but one necessary for achieving high performance. The design and implementation tasks are complicated by the fact that schools across large districts have wide variation not only in performance, but also in their capacity to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

workers' capacity for growth, and conduct data-based project reviews. To counter the bias toward action—and the unthinking perpetual motion and exhaustion that ensue—leaders can schedule more work breaks and make time for reflection. They... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

is affecting and, in some cases, upending traditional ways of thinking about and conducting business. Historically, says MacKay, economists have tended to assume that firms have equal capacity to set prices and can therefore change their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

ethical analysis of management decisions, policies, and plans of action. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307059 Infosys in India: Building a Software Giant in a Corrupt Environment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism” are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture of corporate capital flows and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne