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Events - Private Capital Project

Corporate Responsibility Engagement at JPMorgan Chase), Clark Binkley (Managing Director at International Forestry Investment Advisors), Ratnika Prasad (Director at the Environmental Defense Fund), John Gilbert (Executive Vice President... View Details

04 Apr 2022
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As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

(Unsplash/Brian McGowan) Early in 2022, Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company—one of Florida’s largest employers with roughly 80,000 employees—and taxpayers, had reason to be satisfied with the company’s performance, having just View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

Courtesy Howard Cox Courtesy Howard Cox This past fall, 49 employees of the US Department of State logged in to a virtual HBS classroom from all over the world—Honduras, China, Namibia, and Kazakhstan, to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Africa’s business and economic landscape. Close to 100 alumni from several HBS clubs logged on for the conversation, which touched upon a wide range of issues including investing, private equity View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

for doctoral students, RAs, and faculty support specialists supporting faculty research. Doctoral students are also welcome to consult with RCS staff, although we cannot take on non-faculty project work. View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

football, and worked part time in a local saw mill. After graduating from high school, McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, earning a bachelor’s degree in forestry in 1957. McArthur was a... View Details

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

you are logging in to the HBSGrid to do work via the NoMachine GUI or terminal, you are automatically placed in and are using this home folder. This is located at: /export/home// For example faculty member... View Details

12 Jan 2023
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‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

activity and put in place collective governance. By contrast, Nagle argues, the Amazon rainforest is subject to control by a gatekeeper—Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who must weigh national politics with environmental protections... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

13 Apr 2014
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India's Johnny Appleseed

Keywords: Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging

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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Software Tools 5ms A variety of applications and libraries are supported on the cluster by default . Additional software, including older versions of software, can selectively be "turned on" in a user's environment via... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging; Forestry and Logging

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

programs are 100 percent online, and available to participants regardless of their location. Do I need to log in to an HBS Online course at certain times? There are no formal class times. All learning... View Details

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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020

Mayo), Global Business (Forest Reinhardt), and Alternative Investments (Victoria Ivashina, Randy Cohen, and Arthur Segel). From April through June, in response to the pandemic, HBS Online offered a free... View Details

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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Scaling Work 37ms There are numerous ways to scale up your work on the HBSGrid, including parallel processing and GPUs . Parallel Processing Also commonly called parallel computing or multicore processing, using multiple... View Details

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COOKIES Some personal information may be collected through cookies, pixel tags, scripts, log files, web beacons and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for more detail. We may use... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

late 2015, “the environmental groups said, ‘We have all that we need. We’re signing off.’ ” The final deal protected 85 percent of Great Bear from logging while offering forestry companies a process for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

October 2000
Case

Tree Values

By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs

Describes two alternative tree cutting strategies. The first is to cut all trees that are at least 12 inches in diameter at breast height. The second is to thin the forest by cutting less desirable trees immediately and harvesting the crop trees later. The case... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Value Creation; Forestry Industry

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December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
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Ponsse: From Finland to Global

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman

Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forestry Industry; Forestry Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil