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- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
harder. It also means the day-to-day business may be less fun. Further, as in all evolving industries, the risks are not apparently clear in this new world of securitization. The second main trend has been in the environmental arena from... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
affordability as a consideration for current and future students,” she says. “The challenge now is to align financial and environmental sustainability in our investments. “I believe in starting somewhere,” she continues. “If we study our... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
sub-organizations, with social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators such as World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics. NextGov Covers topics relating to data, cybersecurity, emerging... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
Danaher, a conglomerate with brands in diagnostics, life sciences, and environmental and applied solutions. "Stars practice, and they keep practicing long after they become stars." Toyota employs a system known as the Toyota Production... View Details
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with a minimum recommended bandwidth of 2 Mbps download speed. Your browser performance will also affect your experience on the platform. To avoid browser-based issues and to ensure the best experience, we recommend that you update your... View Details
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Harvard Business School
appointed by President Obama to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Deborah Wright MBA 1984 Deborah Wright served as president and... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value. We will revisit some of... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
and goad managers. This response assesses Caesars Entertainment's CodeGreen scorecard, advocates a more comprehensive environmental assessment to target subsequent improvement efforts, and describes how the company can leverage and scale... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
firms and alliances head-to-head in a meaningful way, which requires measuring their performance in similar situations. "When you see an alliance over here, and a solo firm over there, there's a good reason for that," says... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
when we see a lot of light bulbs go on as students put into practice the technical and managerial concepts they’ve been learning in case discussions,” explains Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
operations.10 For them, the environmental perspective highlighted how outstanding environmental and community performance was a central part of its strategy and had to be an... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
like local community-building initiatives. Others disclose activities rather more guardedly: effects on environmental pollution, for example. As of April last year, there were over 32,000 such reports of "global corporate... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value
By: Marc L Bertoneche and Cornis van der Lugt
The start of the 2000s saw a flurry of international publications on "the business case" for sustainability, seeking to map out the returns on investment and to differentiate recommended actions from cases of corporate philanthropy. Reports by business organisations... View Details
Bertoneche, Marc L., and Cornis van der Lugt. "Finding the God Particle of the Sustainability Business Case: Greener Pastures for Shareholder Value." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-072, February 2013.
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
efforts center on issues affecting entrepreneurial firms and their investors. Gompers studies the structure, governance, and performance of private equity funds; the sources of financing, incentive design, and View Details
- May 2010
- Article
Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, and Raffaella Sadun. "Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?" Economic Journal 120, no. 544 (May 2010): 551–572.
- November 2008
- Case
Syngenta International AG: Tropical Sugar Beet
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Alwin R. Kopse
Syngenta has developed a new sugar beet crop especially useful to tropical climates that enable double cropping to take place and provide both food and energy from the soil. Thus both the governments of Colombia and India are enthused about the new technological... View Details