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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

Compiled by HBS Business and Environment Initiative and Katie Kross, this list is included as a part of the Sustainability research guide via Baker Library's website. Section Resources Top News sources (subscription... View Details

27 Nov 2017
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Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

join a start-up and the lessons she learned. 1. No pressure, no diamonds.In the cash-strapped environment of a start-up there is pressure to deliver direct results; there's no hiding behind the delayed consequences and layers of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

04 May 2021
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Accounting for Product Impact in the Telecommunications Industry

Keywords: by George Serafeim and Katie Trinh; Telecommunications

2011
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The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error

By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Working Conditions; Situation or Environment; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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September 2007
Teaching Note

Opportunity International: Measurement and Mission (TN)

By: Herman B. Leonard, Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Mission and Purpose; Opportunities

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August 2001 (Revised September 2005)
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eBay (A): The Customer Marketplace

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

eBay, the popular Internet-based consumer-to-consumer marketplace, has recently become attractive to corporate customers. According to a vocal subset of eBay customers, the company has lost its way and is set to forsake its traditional business. Told from the... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Trust; Internet; Web Services Industry

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13 Mar 2017
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Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

Keywords: by Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim

13 Jun 2023
News

A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source of light for the nearly 1.2... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

28 Jun 2014
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Defense Force's Mark Binskin on a long ride to raise money, awareness for prostate cancer

24 Apr 2014
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Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business, industry, and government to the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy

Andreas Jaegle (MBA 2014) and his Harvard University colleagues use the Harvard Innovation Lab as a co-development hub for their startup, elementa energy solutions, which brings low-cost electricity to the most underserved communities in the world. In this... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Protecting critical infrastructure against disasters

Tom Popik (MBA 1988) is an entrepreneur who founded the Foundation for Resilient Societies, a nonprofit that protects critical infrastructure against natural and manmade disasters. (Published April 2014) View Details

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Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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1.4.1 HBS Learning Model | MBA

1.4.1 HBS Learning Model 1.4 Academic Program Specifics The mission of the HBS MBA Program is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The education of these leaders occurs in a community environment that values integrity,... View Details

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2.3.7 Physical Violence | MBA

2.3.7 Physical Violence HBS strives to maintain a safe and secure environment for all members of the community and thus does not tolerate physical violence or threats of physical violence. Students are expected to avoid all physical... View Details

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Frost & Sullivan | Baker Library

Business & Financial Services Chemicals, Materials & Nutrition Electronics & Security Energy & Power Environment & Sustainability Healthcare Industrial Automation Information & Communication Technologies Measurement & Instrumentation... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Jesse Markham Dies at 93

federal antitrust laws. The author of 12 books and more than 150 articles, Markham arrived at HBS from Princeton University. “I came here because the theories on which public policy was being built in economics didn’t square with the realities of the marketplace,” he... View Details

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

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Green Business: beginner's resources and toolkit

"environmental startup," "green startup" etc. EPA's Lean Practices: Toolkit for companies getting started with the EPA's Lean & Environment initiative HBS's Business & View Details

August 2018
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Evaluating Start Ups

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda and Robert F. White

A framework for assessing new business opportunities and the business plans used to describe them is developed. Useful for aspiring entrepreneurs in MBA programs. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Opportunities

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