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- 06 Jun 2023
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Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunities to become change agents for society by creating pattern-breaking approaches and sustainable solutions, explains HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. Unlike business entrepreneurs who are motivated by... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond
Harvard University has engaged its entire community in an effort to improve sustainability. Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to Harvard's Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, which includes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
politically, and economically diverse countries, Africa has become a dynamic frontier for business and entrepreneurship. In response to HBS faculty, student, and alumni interest, the School is broadening its work focused on Africa by... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
us. If you act slowly, we all lose. Related Reading: Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics The Business of Climate Change Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking What do you think? What are your... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” This position sharply contrasts to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous 1970 article, The Social Responsibility of View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
presidential skybox for her research into the entertainment industry's most successful stars and products. Her brand-new book, Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment (Henry Holt), examines the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
being published in the journal of a leading Russian university. He is writing a book on a system he has developed that he calls Establishing and Sustaining Effective Managerial Interaction. And he shares his View Details
- April 1994 (Revised January 1995)
- Case
StarKist (A)
Set in April 1990, this case focuses on H.J. Heinz and its subsidiary, StarKist, the largest producer of canned tuna in the United States. During the 1980s, the public became increasingly concerned about tuna fishing practices that killed dolphins. StarKist was the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Laws and Statutes; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Environmental Sustainability; Competition; Mexico; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "StarKist (A)." Harvard Business School Case 794-128, April 1994. (Revised January 1995.)
- January 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Arcadia Biosciences is seeking to introduce genetically modified rice to China that will lower farmers' costs and generate environmental benefits through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Intellectual Property; Genetics; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 711-050, January 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation
Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
Mason, Scott. "Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 208-107, January 2008. (Revised February 2008.)
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
Business School, studies factors that affect consumer choice. Bollinger, an assistant professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, studies the marketing of sustainable products.) "There are all these... View Details
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Meghavi Talati Archives | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
Illustration by Matt Chinworth Illustration by Matt Chinworth Every year, millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, but few sustain their loss over time, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. The reason lies in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
easy; finding a business model that was going to be sustainable was the hardest. There was a lot of competition, people weren’t purchasing things online yet, funding started drying up, then the Nasdaq... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
Professor of Management Practice Robert Eccles has spent his academic career burrowing deeply into the arcane subject of corporate reporting—not the hottest of business topics. At least not until now. With the publication of One Report:... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
in working with government and NGO players to get his hybrid solar network up and running. “To have large scale and sustainable impact in helping the poor, it is essential to enlist the power of business and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2024
crisis as we approach the midpoint of the decade. During ClimateCAP 2024, attendees heard from thought leaders and executives working towards a more sustainable and equitable business ecosystem and engaged... View Details