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- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
plan, the company is taking on green initiatives only if they are financially viable. Examples include recovery and reuse of waste heat to power different plant operations, use of byproducts such as slag at JSW cement, and electric... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
as much as 40 percent of solid waste in landfills. Many communities also care about preserving a historic look, which makes conversion more palatable than demolition. And when zoning is flexible, reuse projects may be quicker to commence... View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
particular research work stream. Potential work streams include energy generation (renewables, cleaner fossil fuels, biomass, and green hydrogen), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture including dairy, urban resilience and adaptation, hard to abate sectors (steel, cement)... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “The solution doesn't necessarily come from the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
government can actually help a lot through modifying and extending key policies, particularly in results measurement and removing restrictive and unnecessary impediments to competition. For example, the need for physician certification by... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
legislation should enable record-level of government investment in decarbonization. The U.S. is ripe for the transition. Business and government need to get better at collaboration, but leaders must also... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing might collect an extra dime from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
that problem.” During the plant-based lunch, guests divided into topic-based rooms to discuss issues they had voted on earlier in the morning: energy technologies, electricity, grid, and storage; finance and insurance; food and agribusiness; real estate, buildings, and... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
to different players in this quest. From incumbents in traditional businesses revamping processes and technologies to account for emissions to startups creating new solutions to existing challenges such as agriculture, mobility and waste... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
for Linux to take over Windows. The questions that we address are: Is Linux's superior demand-side learning sufficient to win out? What is the effect of forced procurement by governments and some large corporations on the long-run... View Details
- 05 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit
CSR initiatives do not include the mangrove conservation project, but are instead focused around skills & livelihoods, public health, waste management, and watershed management (3). As we discussed extensively during our visit,... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
companies we visited were supportive of market interventions by government policy and regulation to encourage sustainable investments. For example, Grolsch shared that taxes on landfilling (which is now prohibited in the Netherlands) and... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter also discusses the sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details