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- April 2006
- Background Note
Informing Service Management with Customer Data
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Taught as the third module in a Harvard Business School course on Managing Service Operations. Explores the role of data analysis in ongoing service management. Describes how to realize the maximum amount of value from analyses and use this information in... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Design; Analytics and Data Science; Service Operations; Mathematical Methods; Value
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Informing Service Management with Customer Data." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-097, April 2006.
- June 2003 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
WWF
By: John A. Quelch
WWF is the best known environmental organization in the world. This case explores the issues WWF currently faces and reviews the organization's partnerships with the private sector. The protagonist, Paul Steele, WWF's COO, must decide which of three potential private... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "WWF." Harvard Business School Case 503-113, June 2003. (Revised July 2004.)
- Other Article
Sustainable Strategies and Net-Zero Goals
By: Mark L. Frigo, Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Kaplan and Ramanna describe a rigorous approach, the E-liability method, for companies’ ESG reporting, especially as it pertains to GHG emissions measurements. They argue that the current standards for measuring... View Details
Keywords: Measurement; Sustainability; Net-zero Emissions; Environmental Sustainability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Measurement and Metrics; Strategy
Frigo, Mark L., Robert S. Kaplan, and Karthik Ramanna. "Sustainable Strategies and Net-Zero Goals." Special Issue on Sustainability. Strategic Finance 103, no. 10 (April 2022): 42–49.
- Third Quarter 2018
- Article
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Metrics; Standard Setting; Accounting Standards; Finance; Investment; Information; Environmental Sustainability; Governance; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy
Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Financial Analysts Journal 74, no. 3 (Third Quarter 2018): 87–103.
- October 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Indigo Agriculture
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Christine Snively
Indigo Agriculture had successfully developed and launched its first commercial product, microbe-enhanced cotton seeds, on an accelerated product development timeline. In late 2016, as the company was about to launch its second product, winter wheat, the management... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Agribusiness; Science-Based Business; Operations; Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, Michael W. Toffel, and Christine Snively. "Indigo Agriculture." Harvard Business School Case 617-020, October 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
Amitabh Chandra, Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration at HBS and Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at HKS (photo by Susan Young) A key challenge in the life View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 2021
- Working Paper
Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors
By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
Burton, M. Diane, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-130, June 2021.
- Fast Answer
Patent search: Cortellis
How can I begin a patent search in Cortellis and can I search by therapeutic areas, e.g.? Cortellis for Competitive Intelligence combines a collection of pharmaceutical industry data and life science related content into a single platform... View Details
- Web
Raffaella Sadun | Working Knowledge
associate editor for Management Science . She is the author of articles published in journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics , American Economic Review , and Journal of Political Economy . She served as an economic advisor to... View Details
- Web
Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Site Credits Curator : Caitlin E. Anderson Faculty from both Harvard Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University provided guidance and support : Walter Friedman Research... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of science and business. Following... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
jeans, for instance, will get more eyes on social media. For brands like red-carpet favorite Marchesa, it’s a useful new tool in that never-ending quest to predict what consumers want next week, next month, next season. It turns out there’s a View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- News
The Next Harvard Square? Really?
though — even visually-challenged individuals like me can see that by taking a stroll by the construction zone for the Harvard Allston Science Complex on Western Avenue, due for completion in just a few years and future home of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Administration at HBS. “This program will help established leaders work more effectively with data science teams and understand how to use new data capabilities to drive strategic advantage.” Participants in HBAP take part in six new... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tedde Tsang
have found no better way for city governments to work toward this ideal than to apply the lessons of management science to do the things that really matter—keeping the schools open, preventing crime, picking up the trash, and providing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
those who have a passion to found, work at, or invest in a startup, HBS’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard Innovation Labs, and HBS’s close ties to the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
focus. Before long his first novel, Heartlight, the story of an astrophysicist and his granddaughter who try to save the solar system, was published to glowing notices, including this encomium from author Madeleine L'Engle: "This is one of the best View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- February 10, 2015
- Article
Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation
By: Omar Isaac Asensio and Magali A Delmas
We investigate the effectiveness of nonprice incentives to motivate conservation behavior. We test whether tailored information about environmental and health damages produces behavior change in the residential electricity sector. In a randomized controlled trial with... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior
Asensio, Omar Isaac, and Magali A Delmas. "Nonprice incentives and Energy Conservation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, no. 6 (February 10, 2015): E510–E515.
- Portrait Project
Sarah Murphy
slice with extra cheese. Her battle with such a complex disorder initially sparked my interest in neuroscience, and I soon came to realize that science exists well beyond the boundaries of the laboratory. Disease is more than just a pile... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
computer science and economics. “For my graduate degree, I knew I wanted to study finance, and I knew I wanted the HBS brand,” she says. “I maxed out on every possible type of student loan to make that happen.” That experience was the... View Details