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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

a major financial institution following the financial crisis, including an analysis of core products: green bonds, ESG-based equity research, and a variety of advisory products. Key Themes: Intermediaries have a tremendous impact on and... View Details

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Sequential Innovation and Market Structure

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont

This paper concerns the introduction of a sequence of new, higher-quality durable products in a market in which there already exists a lower-quality substitute. The product has the further attribute that a real resource cost is incurred at the time a higher-quality... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

core activities of teaching, research, and disseminating ideas. Faculty and students alike embraced the custom technology that enabled teaching and learning both in the classroom and remotely. They were supported by hundreds of frontline... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Technology and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, 2015–2018. Alberto F. Cavallo : Received a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economics of Digitization Grant, 2015–2016. Reshmaan N. Hussam : Recipient of a United... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

As CEO of Caribu, Tuchman set about to expand its online library of books and games and became one of the few Latina founders with a technology-based growth company. Miami native Felecia Hatcher held corporate jobs in technology until the... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing competitive landscape for business schools. In typical fashion,... View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

my career and am looking for a path to becoming a chief sustainability officer or sustainability manager with a company I can align my values with. This class seemed like the perfect opportunity to give me the right tools to learn more about this field." Desirée Kaplan... View Details

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2023 (Revised November 2023)
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Arcos Dorados: Decarbonizing McDonald’s in Latin America

By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

This case describes the decarbonization strategy of Arcos Dorados—McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, operating in 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean—and how the company measured its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including those... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Change Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Environmental Sustainability; Food; Growth Management; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; North and Central America; South America

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February 2021
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Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris

In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details

Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda

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01 Sep 2024
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Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not

response on a weekly basis. Remento’s AI technology turns those recordings into stories that can be published as a book. The Why: Greene treasures the home movies he has of his father, who died when View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the policies... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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Who's Afraid of 100%?

By: Jurgen Weiss

The articles describes 100% renewable/clean energy systems and argues that they may be less costly and easier to achieve than is often argued in the industry. View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Green Technology; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry

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17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life

Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

28 Feb 2025
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Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

This Friday night, Remento enters the Shark Tank. The startup, cofounded by CEO Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) in 2021, will be featured on this week’s episode of the long-running business show, pitching its “no-write life story book” vision to Sharks at 8/7c on ABC. We... View Details

10 May 2020
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Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

allow you to go off-roading (curb? no problem!). Plus, exercising with my daughter saves time, and she has a blast going fast on runs. Alice Liu | Class of 2021 Little(s): Mia (1) Pre-HBS Industry: Technology Investment Banking at J.P.... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Generative AI (GenAI) stands at the forefront of a technological revolution, poised to redefine how businesses operate and deliver value. Understanding the complexities of GenAI... View Details

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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

John H. McArthur | About

Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

First Look: May 27

Arcos Dorados: Decarbonizing McDonald’s in Latin America

Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not

Up on the Corner

The Value of Environmental Activists

Leadership and Teaming

Who's Afraid of 100%?

Breath of Life

Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni