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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris

By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship
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Events - Business History

Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna. Nov 20 20 Nov 2023 Business History Seminar: Business, Society, and the Environment Valeria Giacomin (Bocconi University), "Environmentalism and Sustainability in the Southeast Asian Plantation Industry... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

practices, which, in turn, ensures sustained commitment and performance. Southwest Airlines, for example, has had, ever since its founding, a high-level culture committee that periodically assesses company culture and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

sustainable finance at ClimateWorks Foundation, a board member of Context Labs BV, and a strategic advisor to Persefoni AI and Apollo Global Management. Ravenel founded the Sustainable Business & Finance... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

Publication:The Accounting Review 86, no. 2 (March 2011) Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on asset prices, financial reports and disclosures, laboratory experiments, and surveys of practice. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Companies: social responsibility

positive impacts in communities around the world. The following databases provide companies' own (self-reported) social responsibility reports: Sustainability Disclosure Database: a free database from the Global Social View Details
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

intermediaries , financial reporting , financial statement analysis Interviews Kutayba Alghanim Nien-he Hsieh Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration Research Interests : corporate accountability , corporate governance ,... View Details
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For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Engage in courses from Social Enterprise Initiative faculty such as Sustainable Investing , Power and Influence for Positive Impact , and more. Working with MBA Students Summer Associates Students play a valuable role for organizations in... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

exists between spending money on others (i.e., prosocial spending) and happiness. Participants recalled a previous purchase made for either themselves or someone else and then reported their happiness. Afterward, participants chose... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

while purchasing, aggregating, and reselling their outputs. Led by CEO Mathias Eisert, Polish Agro had also ventured into biofertilizers, aligning with new EU sustainability regulations and aiming to differentiate itself in a highly... View Details
  • 2018
  • Report

The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Sources
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53540 2017 Swedish Economic Forum Report 2017: Svensk konkurrenskraft The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard 2017 By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—The Swedish Competitiveness Scorecard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

the short term will attract short-term investors, further reinforcing a short-term managerial attitude. Communicating a long-term vision for the business and providing both narrative and quantitative information is an integral part of building a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 20 Sep 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan; Accounting
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and of policies that can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

no matter how many hours a day it takes. There is no better way to use my education.” – Leni Peterson Redondo The PBS headline is shocking. “Mexico City is running out of water.” The crisis is expected to hit this June and numerous View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics

93% 95% — Did Not Report / Unknown 0% 0% 0% — Publishing 2022 2021 2020 2019 Cases Sold 16,726,000 15,392,000 15,209,000 14,539,000 Harvard ManageMentor Active Users 7,384,000 6,061,000 5,037,000 2,837,000 HBR.org Average Monthly Users... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

corporation. It describes the firm's portfolio strategy and the Danaher Business System—a systematic and wide-ranging set of organizational processes the firm has developed to drive growth and create value. In 2008, the firm confronts various challenges in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne