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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
response services by connecting customers’ distributed energy resource assets (DERs) to every wholesale electricity market in North America. The Product Partnerships team is responsible for conducting market... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
Harvard Business School have as much pain shopping for a new car as the rest of us. For Jill Avery, a senior lecturer in the Marketing Unit, one experience included being ignored by a salesman, who turned... View Details
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni
amount for which they are eligible decreases by $10,000 USD. See "Awards" section below for detailed explanation. Application deadline: April 25 at 12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:AFRICA View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
its new President Laurie Patton faced the challenge of students calling for divestment from fossil fuels, trustees opposed to it, and a series of day to day administrative challenges that demanded her... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
marketers are feeling pressure to show ROI.” Still, since those first Facebook ads were posted in 2004, social media has proven itself a valuable tool for helping companies create consumer perceptions about particular brands (Old Spice)... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
pandemic. An increase in risk perception makes consumers more willing to pay for safety features, which, in turn, provides producers greater incentives to develop and commercialize technologies that address consumers' View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
re-evolve the future. SurgiBox Mike Teodorescu (DBA 2018) Alumni Track Crowd Favorite Safe surgery, any time, any place. Business Track, 2021 Concord Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021) Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
deficit spending send the signal that demand will increase, and thus both aim to break the cycle of negative expectations about the economy. Q: What's a good way to think about foreign direct investment in the United States? Are we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Ideology and International Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market for Sharing... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
should CEO Dan Case take to balance the competing demands of maintaining the firm's culture and positioning it for future growth? “Mine came after business school. I came back here with my best friend, who... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
accessibility—business leaders can deliver triple bottom line impact. Business Opportunity. Today, two billion people—one in three—lack access to safe water and a toilet. COVID has accelerated demand View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
negotiation of safe paths through the complexities of official regulations and government. The easiest way to understand the Unilever organization, observed an article in the U.S. business magazine Fortune in 1947, was "to think of... View Details
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MBA Program - Alumni
the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run Impact Investing Fund focuses on local BIPOC-led and -owned... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
farmland. We see our land’s ability to serve as a sink for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as a key element of the climate solution. As a farmland asset manager, we can direct restorative and... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
during the challenges ahead—or give them up at your company’s peril. Yes, it will be tough, especially when competing profit targets and employee demands in the new work models vie for priority. But you can... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
Summing Up There's no need to rethink important economic constructs just because of the growth of the Long Tail phenomenon and its impact on demand and supply. Or is there? That was part of the debate that occupied respondents to this... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Video: Inspirational Women in Business
was her fiduciary duty to the shareholders, so she could not shut down the mine. But— Eunjin Lee: She made the hard decision to close down a mining plant. Aastha Bhardwaj: She still paid the salaries to the workers. She said, we wouldn't open back until it was very,... View Details