Environmental Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

the words: “Great Bear Rainforest: Partnership. Balance. Certainty.” Trailing behind the drummers was a line of speakers representing indigenous coalitions, the lumber industry, environmental groups, and the provincial government,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

strategies prompted by a changing climate with the help of a panel of four HBS alumni with expertise in finance and energy, including Hui Wen Chan (MBA 2010), Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting

gender itself is not a good predictor of negotiation performance. Gender differences appear when guidelines for negotiation are ambiguous and environmental triggers are present—such as the number of women in leadership positions—that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference

manager at Procter & Gamble, Haacker loves the outdoors. His goal at Denali was to explore a potential long-term career in environmental conservation and to get a sense of how nonprofits and government... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real estate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business

any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend (MBA ’84), View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

10 Aug 2022
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Generosity Multiplied

Fund, which has raised more than £2.8 million to benefit 146 environmental charities, and the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, which has raised £3.9 million. “It’s amazing how many different things we’re able to impact,” says Reed. “It’s this... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2008
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Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

the roots of GE’s “ecomagination” business initiative can be traced in part to 3,000 pages of reports written on global warming, brought along on vacation a few years ago. “I wanted GE’s response to environmental realities to be something... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

Photography by Neal Hamberg If your middle-school science class is studying New England’s green crab population, chances are you’ll get a lot more excited about the origin, life cycle, and environmental impact of this remarkable invasive... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 May 2022
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Like-Minded

for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these birthday-celebration evenings,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life

organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details