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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the standard of living will once again... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
might create conditions harmful to its progress. In addition, we wondered what forces, largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
Regular Checkup if you want to be sure your mechanical system is operating in a way that protects your health, the single best recommendation we can give you is to commission your mechanical system. Our commissioning recommendation is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
access to local partners and opportunities in developing nations that could benefit their future activities. There is growing evidence that companies that have innovated to ensure effective environmental safeguards, greater... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
protect against pests and diseases, enhance grain and fruit quality, and improve plant nutrition. Some of the microbes under development may soon be used to reduce fertilizer usage and to substantially reduce methane gas escapage. Rick... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
brand values (the employees’ work environment embodies the organization—beanbag chairs in the conference room and walls full of Post-its); and environment and sustainability (a less-is-more mentality and environmentally conscious... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
to compete on quality. "Barilla was the first to see the need to invest in brand building to protect its shelf price and maintain share," Francesco observes in the case. "However, no one believed that you could create a brand in... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020
growing environmental challenges. Concluding the conference, Eric Souberiran underscored the importance of young entrepreneurs tackling these complex issues and that “there is a huge opportunity when you View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
jurists, including Louis Brandeis and institutional economist E.R.A. Seligman, supported RPM as a protection to independent proprietors. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909007 Copyright Law in the U.S. and EU Harvard Business School Note 309-052 This note reviews the basic rules for copyright protection in both the U.S. and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
involves a one-issue, zero-sum negotiation concerning the advance on royalties that the publisher will pay to the author. Purchase the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908050 China's Environmental Challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration potential.[iv] What... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration potential.[iv] What... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration potential.[iv] What... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
into catalyzing and scaling sustainable solutions. Moreover, the nature of environmental challenges requires problem solving that is no longer strictly in a public or private domain, which makes public service and nonprofits a really... View Details