Naturalize - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

03 Jan 2018
News

Candy That Is Good for You

Caron Proschan (MBA 2007) is founder and CEO of Simply Gum, maker of natural chewing gum and breath mints. In this interview she talks about the market opportunities for natural, eco-friendly candy products. “I started my company because... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Alumni on the Best Business Advice They’ve Ever Received

“You should not jump at the first solution that comes to mind. You should consider alternatives and figure out how to apply them.” —Ken Fettig (MBA 1957) “All leadership is very close in nature to friendship. “All leadership is very close... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Skydeck; podcast; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

students) with real-world experience, one-on-one coaching relationships, a project-oriented curriculum, and time—appear to make it much less economically practical and effective to do it outside the job. Given the natural allure and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

overlook the significance of these certifications and typically lack the necessary operational capacity to pursue them, underscoring a divide in the adoption of sustainable practices within the RFH community. RFH also champions eco-friendly cultivation methods, such as... View Details

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

utilities. The company is facing an upheaval in the energy markets due to the dramatic growth in natural gas fracking and the resulting increase in natural gas supply. The case enables students to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort... View Details

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

constrained agency through which a particular network action is taken can affect actors' ensuing structural positions and the nature of the constraints they subsequently face. Our conceptualization of constrained agency identifies new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

1.5 Attendance | MBA

Hall, certain simulations/exercises, or upon special request by the faculty due to the sensitive nature of a particular class discussion. Consecutive and Prolonged Absences Two or more consecutive days of Excused or Unexcused absences... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

herbicides, reducing risk.) In general, Reinhardt asserts, it is market leaders who, by virtue of their power to shape the nature of competition in their industries, can force other firms to follow. Flexing similar muscle are firms with... View Details

15 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Outrage at the Death of a Tree

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, reflects on creativity, innovation, and inclusive economic systems. You can subscribe to his Substack newsletter here: https://tarunkhanna.substack.com/ During a recent family visit to St Louis... View Details

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

2012
Other Unpublished Work

Environmental corporate strategy and advancements in enhanced oil recovery technology among U.S. firms

By: Shon R. Hiatt

This study seeks to address how collective actors can affect technology development and adoption among organizations by creating regulatory uncertainty. Empirically, this paper focuses on the influence of environmental organizations concerned about climate change on... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Technology Adoption; Natural Environment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; United States

Citation

April 2009
Teaching Note

Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea Minardi

Teaching Note for [808062]. View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Opportunities; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Energy Industry; Brazil

Citation

Purchase

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

over a shared love of India (we both lived there at various times), startups, and the natural foods space. We even realized that we had a mutual friend who then turned out to be one of our first investors when we started Hilma! So today... View Details

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C., to improve their ability to spot upcoming trends. Together,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

is that participants write up their own case studies—an opportunity usually reserved for faculty. Some of the 18 cases published or in development in the "The Great East Japan Earthquake" series include reports on Google Japan and Yahoo!; Oisix, an online... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

IT vendors including Oracle, IBM, and Sun that traditionally have built offerings based on proprietary technologies are now investing billions of dollars into open source software—arrangements that are transforming in some ways the fundamental View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

forms of innovation: process innovations ... innovations in the way we think ... innovations in organization structure ... and so on." These comments pose the question of whether too many elements, many of them counter to human View Details