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4.1 Student Travel | MBA

absences occur as a result of student travel, trip organizers and/or club leaders will be contacted by the MBA Program and subject to potential disciplinary sanction. The nature of any potential sanction will be impacted by the due... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

John Dearden Remembered

more than forty articles for academic and professional journals. Born in 1919 in Lancashire, England, Dearden immigrated with his family to western Massachusetts in 1924. He received a bachelor’s degree from American International College in Springfield. Having become... View Details
Keywords: John Dearden; Dearden; Ford Motor; Alzeimer; obituary; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 17 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

Damalas details how the hotels he developed from the early 1990s utilize natural resources in a sustainable fashion. “When you can [maintain] natural corridors, not only do you have the shade factor, using... View Details
  • 06 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

short-term increase in otherwise steady charitable-giving patterns among firms that are headquartered in the event's host city. Natural disasters also have a strong effect on firms' giving patterns, according to the study Punctuated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2017
  • News

Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

research, and compiled a database of 1,050 examples of alumni who are tackling social issues. The team also surveyed 13 MBA classes, ranging from 1955 to 2015, to discern the nature of such philanthropy, which researchers defined broadly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Scientific Research and Development Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Dear Future Author…

(OPM 30, 2001), former Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney and coauthor of How to Get a Green Card, now in its 12th edition “Know your motivation. Know what drives you to write and publish. You don’t have to want to change the... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

Behavioral ecologist Toni Rapone knows that natural selection is the law of the planet. But for the vibrant and down-to-earth MBA-cum-scientist, that knowledge comes from more than textbooks. Rapone, whose given name, Antoinette, honors... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Leading Questions

standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing executive assessment industry The key, Schlatka says, is not to... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • News

The Greening of Houston

live in and raise a family.” Thacker is on the board of the Hermann Park Conservancy, which oversees the 445-acre park at the heart of Houston. The park is home to the Houston Zoo, Houston Garden Center, Miller Outdoor Theatre, Houston Museum of View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • February 2010 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

The Political Economy of Carbon Trading

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, J. Gunnar Trumbull, Mikell Hyman, Patia McGrath and Nazli Zeynep Uludere
Global climate change is an increasingly prominent political and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both... View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Public Administration Industry
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  • August 2008
  • Article

From Clusters to Cluster-Based Economic Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Olga Memedovic
Over the last decades, changes in the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and across locations. For companies, the need to choose the... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Value; Business Strategy; Competition; Performance Productivity; Cost; Natural Environment; Policy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Framework; Industry Clusters
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  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 708-418 Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental organizations choose to employ are sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • News

Such Great Heights

in 2006. White: What was it that attracted you to mountaineering? Vogl: As kids I think we sort of naturally gravitate towards climbing trees or spending time playing in the outdoors. I also always have loved the snow. And so for me,... View Details
Keywords: mountain; climbing; adventure
  • Student-Profile

Omar Olivarez

The seeds of Omar Olivarez’s (he/him) interest in AI and the future of work were planted in an undergraduate course in business analytics and machine learning. After graduating with his BBA, he followed a natural path into industry,... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2021
  • News

Sewn with Love

Hanazawa, who also founded Fashion Girls for Humanity (FGFH), a nonprofit that provides humanitarian services and funds to victims of natural disasters, began to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She... View Details
  • 2012
  • Article

Do Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

By: Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy and Eric Werker
Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; System Shocks; Natural Disasters; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Public Opinion; India
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  • August 2007
  • Case

Manila Water Company

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, David Wheeler and Jane Comeault
In 1997, the Philippines government privatized its water utility in the metropolitan Manila area. The East Zone concession was won by Manila Water Company and the West Zone concession by Maynilad Water Services. Over the next decade, Manila Water turned in an... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Framework; Business or Company Management; Bids and Bidding; Privatization; Performance Improvement; Utilities Industry
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  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

taxes. Similarly, tax authorities can rely on the use of the 1040 for other purposes to limit the degree of income understatement given your need for capital. The uniformity with which you are forced to characterize your economic situation provides a View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

natural human and human-informed technological bias. Embedded Ethics A distributed pedagogy initiative at the Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences that embeds philosophers directly into computer science... View Details