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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

ethical, and legal standards. A well-regarded financier I know routinely beats out others for deals while remaining a very gracious winner who doesn't swagger and always has a little something to share. His competitors or opponents up end... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

experience, knowledge, and insights international students bring to case discussions enable all students, from the US and around the globe, to develop the knowledge, judgment, and skills that are needed to lead in a rapidly changing world. We are a much stronger View Details

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

participation. Just setting that goal institutes a standard that other people will strive to match. Such goal setting could help companies push up participation rates in all manner of employee programs, from charitable donations to health... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

companies, and later served as a director at the Boston law firm of Hale and Dorr, LLP, before joining Genzyme in 1997. While at Hale and Dorr, she assumed leadership roles on the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

and Harvard Medical School.” JULY 7 Netflix recently announced it will move 2 percent of its cash holdings to financial institutions that directly support Black communities. Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann (MBA... View Details

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

and other top executives representing fields as diverse as telecommunications, financial services, and pharmaceuticals, as well as government entities in the US and overseas-debated the pluses and minuses of Data.gov's decisions, its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

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Program Policies - HBS Online

consists of three courses - Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting. Participants must complete and pass all three courses to earn the Credential of Readiness (CORe). CORe grades are provided for the entirety... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six weeks performing a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also restricted player compensation.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

meritocracy, yet the evidence makes clear this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity. If you can’t see how racism and white supremacist ideologies influence your perception of self, interaction with others, or the organizational dynamics or values of... View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

failure tolerance has an equilibrium price—in terms of an investor's required share of equity—that increases in the level of radical innovation. Financiers with investment strategies that tolerate early failure will endogenously choose to... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

be published in April 2020. Rebecca sits on the boards of Amgen and of Idexx Laboratories. Her publications include the books Leading Sustainable Change and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. She was named one of three “Outstanding Directors... View Details

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

a portfolio that has reversed years of financial losses. “Atlantic Media is one of the only legacy companies that has made a successful transition to digital,” adds Perlmutter. “Their corporate strategy is inherently tied in with doing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of HBS, Joseph Allen and John Macomber lay out the... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Press) empirically investigates how racism disadvantage black colleges by preventing them from gaining critical financial and political resources. Her work appears in academic and popular venues including Social Science History, Research... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

in serving the particular institutional interests of the partners. Since NPO's missions are generally imbued with social purpose, their general motives tend to be predominantly altruistic in nature, but collaborating with businesses can... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

approach across multiple business units. Social Entrepreneurs as Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Case of Sekem Authors:Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana Publication:In Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy.... View Details