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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

venture-backed life sciences firm. In reviewing her proposal, Cristy Barnes considers the company's characteristics and how they differ from a typical investment. At the same time, the CEO and the venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

industry that would bring financial and job security. An aptitude for math and science led to an engineering scholarship to Penn State, a major in electrical engineering, and a position at a multinational oil and gas corporation after... View Details
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Lessons from Catastrophe Reinsurance

By: Kenneth A. Froot
Of the 20 most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain, and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Insurance; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Disasters; Behavior
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Sahlman Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (also listed under Business, Government & the International Economy and General Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship in Life View Details
  • Article

Strategic Management of Product Recovery

By: Michael W. Toffel
Manufacturers of an expanding range of durable products are facing regulatory and market pressures to manage the products they manufactured upon their end of life (EOL). In part, this attention is motivated by a growing number of countries—especially across Europe and... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Government Legislation; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Europe; Asia; United States
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies

By: Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein and Katharine Lee
Manufacturers are increasingly being required to adhere to product take-back regulations that require them to manage their products at the end of life. Such regulations seek to internalize products' entire life cycle costs into market prices, with the ultimate... View Details
Keywords: Product; Cost; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

01 June 2006 HBS Case Collection MassMEDIC: The Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council by Willis M. Emmons III, Michael E. Porter and Spencer Wallace 04 May 2012 HBS student project Tennessee Music Cluster by Megan Bernard, Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Andrea Hill,... View Details
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

School Case 614-056 BGI: Data-driven Research BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

experiences were.” Recover, explore, practice To analyze the data, DiDonna’s fellow researchers, University of Notre Dame Professor Matt Bloom and Kira Schabram, assistant professor at the University of Washington, employed techniques from social View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Journal 46, no. 6 (June 2025): 1325–1362. (Lead article.) Riding the Passion Wave or Fighting to Stay Afloat? A Theory of Differentiated Passion Contagion By: Emma Frank, Kai Krautter , Wen Wu and Jon M. Jachimowicz June 2025 | Article | Administrative View Details
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein & Katharine L. Lee; Chemical
  • March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Shanghai: GDP Apostasy

By: George Serafeim
Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success.... View Details
Keywords: China; Gdp; Measurement; Measurement Problems; Accountability; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Strategy Execution; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Map; Macroeconomics; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Corporate Governance; Shanghai
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  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made startling revelations and offered a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, and David Mooney, Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering. After finishing her degree, she stayed at Harvard for another year as an HBS Blavatnik Fellow in Life View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

this “working on material” session (as comedians would call it) with a sneak peek into how we are reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and the implications for us and our organizations. Build the Life You Want: The Art and... View Details
  • 2012
  • Book

The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment

By: Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Policy; Governance Compliance
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Faculty & Research - Health Care

health care Research Collections Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Increasing Value in Care Delivery Understanding... View Details
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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

possibility of applying science to administration, but an actual scientific working-through of the nature of human behavior based on careful empirical observation. A second definition of vision is when one talks about a vision of the... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

internet, but email hasn't been invented yet.” What exactly is the metaverse again? People view the metaverse in different ways. Some associate it with a “massive participatory videogame inspired by science fiction,” while others see it... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
  • 27 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

Before I transitioned out of the military, I started to look at jobs I wanted in 5-10 years. I quickly realized that an MBA would help me get those. I then found the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences... View Details