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- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Kovatch made a career detour to American Express to work on the strategy team for US commercial cards. In 2005, HBS alumna Anne Maffei (MBA 1994) hired her to run the retail/consumer division of Vista Research, which was at the time a part of View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for developing View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
observers. We identify boundary conditions and demonstrate that the positive inferences disappear when the observer is unfamiliar with the environment, when the nonconforming behavior is depicted as unintentional, and in the absence of expected norms and shared View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
Pay Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Sustaining peak performance over not just years but decades may be the single most difficult challenge for executives, which makes Sir Alex Ferguson's 26-year run as manager of England's legendary Manchester United soccer club so... View Details
- Web
Strategic Plan | Information Technology
enable the HBS community to make a difference in teaching, learning, research, administration, and engagement. 2. Design Sustainable Technology Architecture We ensure that the right approach is applied for selecting or developing... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the development of technical View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitable since 2016 and grew nearly 70 percent in 2018, with revenues of $100 million. As a result, she sees no reason to take on more funding. “We have a really sustainable business at this point,” Lin says. “We’re growing at a nice... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
What Should Leaders Communicate? Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times As companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who do not compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Profile
Daniel Serna
own contributions to Yale's agricultural legacy by getting involved with and eventually leading Food From the Earth, a student advocacy group focused on the university's dining-hall options, which helped start the Yale Sustainable Food... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
first few months of a turnaround, when uncertainty is high and setbacks are inevitable. Otherwise, there is little hope for sustained improvement. [...] Effective leaders explicitly reinforce organizational values on a constant basis. We... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
disease are likely to multiply. If the Midwest is able to maintain its high standards for agriculture, it has an opportunity to supply the needs of growing populations in other parts of the world. The U.S. “needs a long strategy” around... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing to a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
times) to help cleaning supervisors deploy resources as and when needed. “This shift in approach—from scheduled maintenance toward dynamic, on-demand cleaning—will be progressively applied to other areas of airport maintenance, and in turn help Changi maintain the... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the effect of corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
the sustainable sourcing pillar, with its work on farming standards and supplier code as well as its support for local sourcing programs in the growing African market. HEINEKEN's management finds that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Case 118-030 JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” became one of the first companies to report performance according to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman