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30 Mar 2023
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Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

years, making waste incineration the ultimate step in waste disposal there. According to the facility managers, Amager Bakke is one of the most advanced incinerators in the world, handling 560,000 tons of waste per year—which accounts for... View Details

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Standards of Conduct - Recruiting

recruiting standards of conduct. If you are considering retracting an offer for any reason, please contact CPD immediately. HBS Non-Discrimination & Anti-Bullying Policy Harvard Business School makes its facilities and resources available... View Details

02 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

use and decreased reports of corporate misconduct. The researchers also connected Twitter’s 2007 debut at the South by Southwest film festival, which dramatically increased usage on the site, to a significant reduction in misconduct from View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

business leader, a facility in talking about complex social issues, and a greater understanding of the merits of reparations. A New Way to Measure Shareholder Returns / End to Magical Thinking Professor Mihir Desai (MBA 1993) + More Info... View Details

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Concentrating volume by medical condition and moving non-acute care out of heavily resourced hospital facilities improves outcomes and reduces costs. When providers integrate care across a network of facilities, and in conjunction with... View Details

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Tata Hall | About

Tata Hall Tata Hall is named in honor of Ratan N. Tata (AMP 71, 1975). Tata Hall, a facility completed in December 2013, enhances and expands the School’s Executive Education portfolio. The arc-shaped, seven-story, glass and brick... View Details

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Benefits | Predoctoral Researchers

healthcare/dental, paid time off. Dedicated Workspace Predoctoral researchers are co-located in spaces on the Harvard Business School (HBS) campus . Campus Services & Discounts HBS has many facilities and discounts —from the Shad Fitness... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

FDI to Western Europe and North America reflected the many barriers to foreign multinationals elsewhere. In agriculture and mining, and later in petroleum, foreign firms lost the ownership of production facilities in many countries, even... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

09 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?

Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Green Technology

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

Here at the Pickleball Club, founder and CEO Brian McCarthy (MBA 1972) is making a big bet that his model—a private club, with high-end amenities and a community organized around the sport—will have what it takes to stay in the game for the long haul. McCarthy tours... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

December 2017
Case

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta

It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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Brice Fodouop

Brice acquired operational experience in the company’s facilities in Albany (Oregon), Baltimore, and Chicago. “I wanted to know: what are the best practices in manufacturing?” From manufacturing to management After obtaining an... View Details

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

older ports witnessed the financial resurgence of port cities that had adopted containerization. His business got an additional boost when the Port of Oakland, California, invested $600,000 to build a new container-ship facility in the... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

challenging goals, they must overcome subtle and not-so-subtle challenges of communicating across boundaries. Some boundaries are obvious being in different countries with different time zones, for example. Others are subtle, such as when two engineers working for the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(93) Budgets and Budgeting (4) Buildings and Facilities (4) Business Conglomerates (1) Business Cycles (6) Business Divisions (7) Business Earnings (5) Business Education (24) Business Exit or Shutdown (1) Business Growth and Maturation... View Details

12 May 2023
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Alabama's Yella Fella

Photo credit: Auburn University Photo credit: Auburn University In 1970, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) took over a tiny treated-lumber business in Abbeville, Alabama, that was hovering near bankruptcy. Its owners, Rane's in-laws, had died suddenly in a car accident. Over... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

decentralized—with care delivery spreading beyond traditional facilities and into new models such as the MinuteClinic, a for-profit provider that operates some 640 clinics inside CVS pharmacies. "So much of health care has grown up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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