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  • 13 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

saw that the reach of the Anti-Racism Fund had grown well beyond their networks and that there was something there they could harness to propel their efforts forward. Next steps would be to turn this fundraiser into a sustainable... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Moving the Needle

wealth to those at the bottom of the pyramid," she says. In 2002, Seegull left Novica to consult at various impact enterprises and several philanthropic family foundations. Four years later, she joined Funk Ventures as COO and managing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers

start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge.... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

for success while avoiding common traps. Filled with practical examples, this book will help you prepare and manage your job search; build your network to be an exponential multiplier for you; be ready when you meet recruiting teams; and... View Details
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions Course Number 1565 Professor Laura Alfaro Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Course Overview This course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

making, and practice. We discuss important implications and offer suggestions for further research. Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618 Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management Authors:Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2010
  • Article

Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Using data from a sample of U.S. industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from 1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' symbolic commitments to self-regulate are particularly likely to result in improved... View Details
Keywords: Adoption; Code Law; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Governance Compliance; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; United States
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Leading a Family Business (LFB) - Course Catalog

decisions in a family business? How do you define success in a family business that goes beyond maximizing shareholder returns? How do you build and sustain competitive advantage? How do you plan for effective succession and transition of... View Details
  • Profile

Rob Self

conserving resources on our planet.” In addition to engineering roles at Ford, Tesla, and BMW, Rob co-founded a startup, Ceres, to help farmers manage precious water resources through better access to data. Although the venture is... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

tightly linked, have grown apart. Now specialists help managers analyze their industries and position their businesses for competitive advantage, and strategy has become largely a job for experts, or something confined to an annual... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • 02 Mar 2015
  • News

To Market, To Market

that integrates livestock and sustainable agriculture,” says Ferrari. “We come at it from a community development perspective. We do a lot of work preparing villages to engage in the relatively harsh world of markets. It’s hard for them.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Agriculture; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • February 2011
  • Exercise

Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc.

By: Peter A. Coles
This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Investment; Markets; Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

Teaching you to deal with a problem when it's small. That fair is fair. Unless you're early, you're late. But how do you think your upbringing shaped the way that you managed and led? JI: Yeah, look, I mean, I think it's a combination of... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2020
  • News

Green Light

Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
  • 11 Dec 2019
  • News

A Righteous Path

executive, that means managing growth—recruiting talent, developing office culture, finding room for everyone to sit, and, of course, fundraising to sustain the work—all while staying laser-focused on Safe... View Details
Keywords: April White; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and product development, becoming Director of Product... View Details