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25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

Algorithms and Networks Run the World, presents a framework for rethinking business and operating models. “AI is not just displacing human workers, it is changing the nature of firms, how they operate, and how they interact with the rest... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 2000
News

Three Promoted to Full Professor

public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of environmental protection. Reinhardt is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by HBS Press this year. He... View Details

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

In his 1641 treatise, Meditations on First Philosophy, philosopher René Descartes introduced the concept of an "evil genius," a powerful force of nature who is equally clever and deceitful. Since then, the world has given us... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

2021
Working Paper

Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks

By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan

This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details

Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States

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29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

01 Dec 2004
News

Baker Library Gets New Executive Director

offices. “It will be a natural environment for intellectual exchanges,” says Kennedy. Other new features include a conservation laboratory to preserve the School’s unique collections of business manuscripts and other archival materials,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 2025
Supplement

Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis (B)

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, was optimistic about the InsurTech's path to profitability after navigating the financial uncertainties of 2022. By bundling their home insurance services with third-parties and established insurance incumbents, Hippo was adopting a... View Details

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12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

with enormous increases in wealth, as well as dramatic rises in the longevity, of humanity. Yet capitalism too has had its dark side. The book contains multiple examples of the amoral nature of global capitalism, from opium trading in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2021
News

The Power of Resilience

warrior mode, where I just braced myself to hear the news of the diagnosis and was very strangely matter-of-fact in my questions, just trying to understand what is the stage, what is the action plan? It was only when she told me that View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

John R. Davis

tagging and immunizing all calves. In the decade that he has run the ranch, Davis has increased production fourfold. He uses a method of “rotational cell grazing” that takes advantage of cattle's natural ability to harvest the land by... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

market, goods like education. If we are granting special tax privileges to organizations to produce software, we as a society are saying something about the nature of that good and the nature of the markets... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

Profile

Cristina Ros Blankfein

has emerged as a promising venture for the young entrepreneurs. Blankfein and Ross, with the backing of the Harvard iLab and the Rock Center, went to work on a single-serving, zero calories, all natural cocktail mixer and with the help of... View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus on June 4, 1927 marked the formal recognition of HBS as a major research institution, partner with American enterprise, and participant in the greater Boston business community. A leading example of innovation and... View Details

Portrait Project

Jason Brown

varied identities, seeing things from multiple perspectives is natural for you. You learn to empathize with outsiders of all types, and more importantly, your experience with difference helps you connect with people and make sure they... View Details

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Scams | Information Technology

legitimate. Cybercriminals can impersonate mobile payment companies and send fake fraud alerts to attempt to scam you. Phishing Phishing is when an email claiming to be from a legitimate source attempts to trick you into providing your personal credentials or... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

SCOTT O’NEIL (MBA ’98), on the nature of his job as president of Madison Square Garden Sports, a $1 billion operation, at a Business of Sports Club presentation at HBS, February 23, 2010. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Peak Earth?

“the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” He explained that “people are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to climate... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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

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