Environmental And Social Sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

spent more than a decade at PepsiCo, for the most part undertaking brand management for well-known products such as Aquafina and Starbucks Bottled Frappuccino. During her time at the company, she was also tapped to work on a PepsiCo... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

older children remains essentially unchanged. To our knowledge, this is the first rigorous demonstration that one need not succumb to temptation in order for it to detrimentally impact one's economic productivity. The Dynamics of Social... View Details

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

(BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change View Details

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

biggest impact in alleviating financing constraints in Africa, developing the local private sector, and ultimately shifting countries away from foreign aid into more sustainable sources of financing.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Aug 2014
News

A closer look at the industry of beauty

homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry... View Details

Student-Profile

Kala Viswanathan

Kala Viswanathan (she/her) has always had an interest in using policy to help create a more sustainable world. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and... View Details

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

to plan and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire. So why is Mutti S.p.a., a... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2014
News

A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line

sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a... View Details

Jim Damalas

Keywords: Ecotourism

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

underappreciated, as gastronomically valuable, thus promoting a different, locally sustainable food culture. Somewhat similarly, Saffronart harnessed academic discourse to recast twentieth-century Indian art as modernist, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

few processes in clusters, such as operations management, customer management, innovation, and regulatory and social processes, that are expected to have the greatest impact on... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

05 Jan 2022
News

Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

policy-makers. Stakeholder Marketing 2.0 Author:Bhaskar Chakravorti Publication:Journal of Public Policy and Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract As more companies pursue "open innovation" and adopt... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

present day. It covers early entrepreneurial attempts to develop solar energy, the use of passive solar in architecture before World War II, and the subsequent growth of the modern photovoltaic industry. It explores the role of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1993 (Revised September 1995)
Supplement

Block 16: Ecuadorian Government's Perspective

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the government perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed to students who will be playing the role of Ecuadorian government officials. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Perspective; Corporate Strategy

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29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

in the country. (Note, this has nothing to do with the discussion around whether the debt level is sustainable; I actually agree with Syriza that the debt level is not sustainable and that the implemented... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

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