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Matthew Mahoney

I want to do. I want to create environments where the safety is for the dreamers and the discomfort for those playing it safe. I want to participate in companies and relationships where imagination, failure, tinkered disruption and risk... View Details

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Nabihah Sachedina

skills, Nabihah ultimately elected for the joint MBA/MPP degree through HBS and HKS. A safe environment for trying things out Given her background, it’s not surprising that Nabihah took a leadership role in the annual Health Care... View Details

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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

emissions, and greentech. More resources from HBS: HBS Working Knowledge - keep updated about Harvard Business School faculty on issues including science-based businesses, environmental sustainability, and climate change. HBS View Details

01 Jun 2009
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IXP 2009

Divided? The Economic Geography of Business (David Collis) China: Understanding a Business Environment (Regina Abrami) Israel: The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital “Miracle” (Dan Isenberg) Boston: Healthcare: Science, Delivery, and... View Details

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

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

Business as usual is no longer acceptable, was the message of 200 corporate leaders on August 19, when the Business Roundtable issued a "Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation." No longer should the primary purpose of companies be to maximize profits for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

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Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik

The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details

Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Research; Organizations; Power and Influence

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December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Background Note

Why do strategies fail?: Advanced Competitive Strategy, Module note for students

By: Jan W. Rivkin

The third of four module notes for students who are taking an advanced course on competitive strategy. Examines how combinations of external threats and internal barriers to change lead to strategic failure. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Situation or Environment; Failure

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December 2004
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Learning from Failure in Health Care: Frequent Opportunities, Pervasive Barriers.

By: A. C. Edmondson

Keywords: Learning; Failure; Health; Opportunities

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October 1984 (Revised March 1999)
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NIKE (E)

Provides the background for a discussion of Nike (E1), (E2), and (E3). Outlines Nike's senior management group's early program to deal with the company's increasingly difficult competitive circumstance. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Competition; Situation or Environment; Management Teams; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry

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14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

22 Sep 2016
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Building a Green Energy Grid

Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long distances from rural wind farms to... View Details

03 Oct 2014
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andBeyond’s CEO Joss Kent on the Luxury Safari Industry

25 Aug 2011
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Profiting from Environmental Regulatory Uncertainty

Keywords: Adam R. Fremeth, Brian K. Richter

24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling

Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded, globally, each year. She saw an... View Details

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

scalable, and secure multi-cloud environment to better meet the changing needs of the HBS community with best-in-class cloud service providers. Cloud Governance: The cloud committee will define oversight for cloud strategies, policies,... View Details

25 Mar 2024
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DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change

This article was originally published by HBS Alumni Stories. The HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) and the HBS Club of Washington, DC (HBSDC) recently co-hosted a fireside chat on climate and inequality, featuring HBS... View Details