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- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
Summing Up How will sustainability be achieved? To sum up responses to this month's column, the question is not whether global sustainability will be achieved but how. One school of thought could perhaps be characterized as enlightened self-interest, a realization on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: 3M
Bencic (HBS ‘14), Strategic Business Development Supervisor, 3M Describe your organization in three to five sentences.3M is a global innovation company committed to applying science to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. With over... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- Profile
Ann DeWitt
respects. The other was the HBS network. "It's very different from the scientific network I'm already a part of," Ann says. "HBS would allow me to extend my science network into the business community." Seeing the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
partnerships now that Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be located adjacent to HBS.” McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
and several other sponsors. "But even more important," notes McCarter, "McDonald's helped fund our educational program." Thus, Sue is now part of the curriculum in some sixty thousand schools nationwide, there have been two casts made of her that travel to View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
can erode trust. As the pair write in “The Effects of Contracts on Interpersonal Trust,” forthcoming in the Administrative Science Quarterly, those who engage in nonnegotiable contracts often attribute their counterpart’s cooperative... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
A successful high-tech businessman, author, and consultant with a PhD in political science from MIT, Ferguson believes, as does Angelides, that outright fraud was integral to the crisis on Wall Street and that criminal trials are in... View Details
- 18 Oct 2022
MS/MBA Information Session and Q&A
Join HBS MS/MBA students and alumni to learn more about the MS/MBA Engineering Sciences and MS/MBA Biotechnology programs at Harvard. You've got questions - we've got the answers! View Details
- Web
Henri A. Termeer Papers | Baker Library
biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences industry, publicity, photographs, audiovisual materials, and memorabilia. These papers also document Termeer’s professional activities serving in leadership of various organizations and the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
multiyear agenda, and as labs complete their work, they will have the opportunity for renewal as well as reorganizing into new labs. The research conducted by HBS faculty and their colleagues from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
whose support for education, healthcare, and life sciences has had a tremendous impact on the Boston area. At HBS, the Krafts continue to support fellowships, with Jonathan establishing his own fund in 2000. Through their family... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
the game.” As a student at MIT, Kundu took time out to volunteer as a science teacher in rural India. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India, especially—thanks to the success he’s had in his business... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in... View Details
- 30 Nov 2023
MS/MBA Information Session for Women in STEM at Brown University
Join an HBS Admissions Officer on the Brown campus to learn more about the HBS MBA and the Harvard MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program. This event is hosted by Brown WiCS, WiSE and SWE. View Details
- Web
Forest L. Reinhardt | About
leaders understand the economic and political environment in which business is conducted, and the strategic opportunities and risks to which globalization and anti-globalization give rise. The second, Business and Climate Change, developed jointly with HBS professor... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson asked her colleagues and business executives that question over the last few years, the reaction was often... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2013
- Book
Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability
By: Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman
Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and... View Details
Henn, Rebecca, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability. MIT Press, 2013. (Honorable Mention for the 2014 Best Book Award, Organizations and Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management.)
- 2018
- Report
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Sources
"The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study." "Future of" Series, MIT Energy Initiative, Cambridge, MA, 2018.
- June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
BioScale
By: H. Kent Bowen and Bradley R. Staats
In 2004, Mark Lundstrom must decide on a funding method and strategic approach for BioScale, a biotechnology company that he founded. BioScale has developed a microchip-based bioanalytical platform that can be used to detect very small concentrations of cells, viruses,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Science-Based Business; Capital; Financing and Loans; Partners and Partnerships; Biotechnology Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Bradley R. Staats. "BioScale." Harvard Business School Case 606-100, June 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- Article
Making Small Farms More Sustainable—and Profitable
By: Lino Dias, Robert S. Kaplan and Harmanpreet Singh
Smallholder farms provide a large proportion of food supply in developing economies, but 40% of these farmers live on less than U.S.$2/day and their deforestation produces environmental degradation. With a rapidly growing global population, it is imperative to improve... View Details
Keywords: Small Farms; Sustainable Agriculture; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Environmental Sustainability
Dias, Lino, Robert S. Kaplan, and Harmanpreet Singh. "Making Small Farms More Sustainable—and Profitable." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (August 24, 2021).