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11 Aug 2016
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February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
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UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe

Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry

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27 Jul 2020
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Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

Instead, they practice the art of reflection “in the cracks and crevices of their everyday lives” to help them make better decisions day by day and problem by problem. Badaracco recommends four design principles for reflection. Like... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Access Resumes

proficiency, and more, helping you find candidates best suited for your role and organization. With this information, employers can also personalize outreach to individual students to maximize effectiveness and establish genuine... View Details

26 Jul 2023

Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumna, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship. View Details

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

the issue of anti-Black racism. Invite your classmates, friends, colleagues, and family members to talk about these issues, in person or over social media. Don’t just talk to people whose views are aligned with yours — help grow the... View Details

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

organizational legitimacy and the kind of moral order we want to create as a society," Anteby explains. The same issues could help us come to grips with the murky legal and ethical areas surrounding the digital age, for example.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

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Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

flights; the purpose of this policy is to help clarify acceptable use and safety of UAS on or above the HBS campus. Drug & Alcohol Policy Harvard Business School’s policy on drugs and alcohol reflects our concern for the health and... View Details

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

degree of formality often helps people focus on their issues, work toward their goals, and resolve their differences. What is clear in my work with family enterprises is that a few well-composed and well-managed governance structures... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20 th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These... View Details

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Rafaella Mazza

that, I thought of environmental engineering, but upon learning that environmental engineers design sewage while agronomic engineers get to drive tractors, I chose that instead. What is your favorite childhood memory? Waking up early at my grandpa’s small farm and... View Details

30 Aug 2010
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Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

research has focused on the underuse of incident-reporting systems. After all, the thinking went, a system used to collect and report incidents will only help an organization learn from its mistakes and lead to better safety results—to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

coaches. In that role, she also led the Career development program team and doubled career development programs offered to alumni and students. In her current work with HBS, Lauren skillfully coaches students and alumni across all industries and has extensive... View Details

22 Nov 2010
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

spur them to innovate. I will provide a menu of techniques you can use to generate creative tension to ensure that everyone is thinking and acting like a winning competitor. 6. How Committed Are Your Employees To Helping Each Other? For... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

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Baker Library Services - Alumni

Careers Baker Library Services Careers Baker Library Services Career research for HBS alumni is a top priority for Baker Library. We help alumni with their career research in several ways: Building a targeted list of potential employers... View Details

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U.S. Cluster Mapping Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strengthening U.S. Competitiveness The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project aims to strengthen U.S. competitiveness by helping clusters and regions understand and improve their economic composition and performance. While much national economic... View Details

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HBS - Key Metrics

help reduce disease transmission (which increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and... View Details

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details