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05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

The double-whammy of increased tariffs imposed by the United States on China and fallout from the coronavirus could make it even more difficult for American retailers to weather the storm in the coming months—or increase pressure on them... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jan 2012
News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

spot, Miami, into home. The weather was the primary draw—he is a private pilot who enjoys boating, fishing, hunting, and cycling, while she is a gardening enthusiast—but it didn’t take long for them to become involved in the community and... View Details

25 May 2022
News

Four HBS Students Win Dean’s Award for Service to the School and Society

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

to support the elderly. Those demands will especially rise in warm weather locations—Florida and Arizona, in particular. And those services tend to take two distinct forms: The high end involves lots of IT operated by lots of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent);... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

28 Mar 2023
Cold Call Podcast

BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line

Keywords: Re: Shirley Lu; Transportation; Auto; Battery

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

employees, while maintaining the safety and flexibility to weather an uncertain path ahead. Jeffrey Polzer (@jeffpolzer) is the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Agarwal MBA 2010 | Founder & CEO, Mati Carbon Removals “Mati uses enhanced weathering in agricultural fields for doing scalable, permanent carbon removals, with co-benefits to marginal farmers. Leveraging our proprietary technology, we... View Details

Portrait Project

Ankit Tandon

I was left a seat at the lunch table, a wordless message—“you are welcomed here.” Neighbors offered us warm meals and other genuine acts of kindness that helped as we laid down new roots. I will pay it forward by creating spaces overflowing with unconditional welcome,... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

find ones that track their predictions and measure how good they were. “The only way that we get better is by tracking,” Grushka-Cockayne says. She points to weather forecasters, often maligned but pretty reliable. “Those guys see... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

added, “Climate change has generated extreme weather events, including floods and droughts, which are further aggravated by changing water patterns due to deforestation and urbanization. Water is the messenger of climate change. It is one... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

technological breakthroughs, market deregulation, consumer preference, or even weather and climate." Any of these factors, he argues, may affect particular markets, which in turn influence related markets and send ripples through the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

many of its funds as mid-size. Shifting to a majority mid-sized fund designation might confuse the investment community that now associated Brown Capital with its winning small-company strategy. What’s more, their mid-sized company fund had View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

Portrait Project

David Chan

A typical five-year old on a Saturday morning would likely be watching the Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon. Not me. I could be found watching The Weather Channel. I was enamored by the weather. I grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, and... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Migration, Climate Similarity, and the Consequences of Climate Mismatch

By: Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini and Charles Taylor

This paper examines the concept of “climate matching” in migration—the idea that migrants seek out destinations with familiar climates. Focusing on the US, we document that temperature distance between origin and destination predicts the distribution of migrants across... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Climate; Immigration; Residency; Weather; Ethnicity; Climate Change; Geographic Location; Policy; United States

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10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

necessary home improvements. Thus, this funding makes it possible for them to use less energy and be in housing that will better weather the changing climate conditions. The bill also includes allocations for energy and natural resources... View Details

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

about where Spire's at now. PP: Spire today runs the world's largest multipurpose constellation. We track every spot on Earth over 100 times a day. All of the world's maritime aviation and weather activity is tracked and predicted based... View Details

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

ways including extreme heat, extreme weather events, air pollution along with increases in diseases and disease transmission. The impacts of climate change are not felt equally, according to the US EPA, “people who already face the... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

large motorcycles that had weathered many threats, including that of smaller, less expensive Japanese products aimed at a younger market in the 1990s. That image was enhanced by an invitation in February, 2017 from the newly elected... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

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