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- 20 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
adverse weather and climate change impacts. Urvesh was motivated to pursue this internship by his belief, as he explained, “that efficient and reliable transportation is a critical public service, and that it stands to become only more... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... 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
- February 2024
- Case
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (A): A Comparative Analysis of Climate Actions and Change Enablers in 14 U.S. Cities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Throughout the early 2000's, emphasis was placed on initiatives to adapt to and mitigate climate action in cities. This series presents overviews (snapshots) of 14 U.S. metropolitan regions to help identify similarities, differences, and opportunities for developing... View Details
Keywords: Climate; Climate Impact; Innovation; Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Investing; Climate Finance; Renewable; Mobility; City; Climate Change; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Weather; Problems and Challenges; United States; Boston; Detroit; Miami; Minneapolis; St. Paul; Pittsburgh; Seattle; San Jose
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
Once again, the weather cooperated for fall reunions with clear skies and mild temperatures welcoming alumni back to campus. On September 21-24, some fourteen hundred graduates and guests from the MBA Classes of 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970,... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rowan Clarke
the best way to prepare a business to weather this type of disruption?” Rowan asks. “We are experimenting with targeted finance—by analogy, you might think of the PPP loans provided by the US government during COVID.” In addition to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
are also well-positioned to help our clients weather this crisis and piece the economy back together. This is a moment for global banks like Citi to show the vital role we can play in growing an inclusive economy. I’m a believer in... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors has just completed its winter meeting on campus, the second of three such gatherings we have each year. While January in Boston might not be everyone's idea of a good time, I can assure you that the Board took full... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
last refurbished in the summer of 1983 - was due for some tender loving care. "The weather conditions in this region necessitate restoration about every fifteen years," he explains. Gilder Richard Pawlick applied the gold leaf to the bell... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
emerging. The impacts of the climate crisis are already being felt as the world experiences more frequent extreme weather events, with substantial coastal, urban, and agricultural assets at risk. Climate change is a crucial driver of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
marketing for the budding business. “It provides all the charting information on your computer, but it also connects to Internet databases and brings in all the latest weather and other flight condition information.” Hamilton discovered... View Details
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
I grew up in a few different places. My dad’s business took us from New Jersey to Georgia, then off to San Diego during the early 90’s. I went to school at the University of Chicago—much different weather there than in San Diego, by the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/man-jit-singh-at-sony-entertainment-television-a/an/414028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-083 The Weather Company New CEO David Kenny transformed The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
As Memorial Day approaches, it’s natural for our minds to drift to summer – thoughts of firing up the grill, getting a boat in the water, or vacation travel would (at least in normal times) tantalize us through workdays that seem to grow longer as the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28 percent for cumin. As a result,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
four hundred purveyors of the market's assorted handmade crafts, antiques, second-hand clothing, artwork, fresh produce, and exotica. Of these many merchants who set up shop - weather permitting - each weekend morning on the blacktopped... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
a booth every Saturday at San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.) No stranger to weathering economic downturns (she met employee payroll out of her personal checking account in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks),... View Details