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  • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43707   Cases & Course MaterialsNatural Gas Abdelal, Rawi, and Sogomon TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 713-020 In an overview of natural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many producers to reconsider their... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 2019
  • White Paper

Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

PublicationsDesigning Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2009 Abstract Today's health-care providers face growing criticism—from policymakers and patients... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business & Environment

considerable wealth was created from the exploitation of natural resources for primarily the land-owning elite in Latin America, at the cost of large-scale destruction of the natural environment. During the... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Person Page

Course Development

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done.  Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
  • October 2000 (Revised November 2018)
  • Exercise

Web-Based Beer Game Exercise

By: Janice H. Hammond
The Web-based beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages between a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Production
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  • June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
  • Background Note

Beer Game, The: Board Version

By: Janice H. Hammond
The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Distribution Channels; Production; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges
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  • 26 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Keywords: by Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez & Stefanie Stantchev
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
  • 07 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Environmental Ratings Miss

Keywords: by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel
  • November 2023
  • Supplement

'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (B)

By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia Comeau
Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Philippines
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  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

fellow Dissertation: Mapping Networks to Probability Distributions in the Economy Advisors: Emmanuel Farhi , Xavier Gabaix , David Laibson , and Tomasz Strzalecki . Close Health Policy (Management) 2021 Emilie Aguirre Health Policy... View Details
  • Research Summary

Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

the promise to significantly change how we buy and pay for goods and service in the future. Could you elaborate on this? What impact do software platforms have for the consumer on the street? A: Software platforms are universal in nature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

Faculty Chair, Business & Environment Initiative Guest: Robin Riedel, Partner and co-head of the McKinsey Center for Future Mobility For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org The Health Risks of Natural View Details