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- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
Additionally, students in the MS/MBA joint degree program between HBS and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science bring a particularly unique set of skills and are interested in combining their engineering, design, and...
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Technology
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
all of them offer a good return on investment. For example, I enjoy watching science documentaries on television. When the show ends, I feel like I know so much more! But an hour later, I've forgotten most of it. Fortunately, that...
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- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (October 2017). The study began to take shape in early 2013. Malhotra, the Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration, and Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of...
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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
remarks to a plenary session, Dean Clark highlighted a number of ways in which the School is growing and changing to meet new challenges both at home and abroad. Among them, he cited initiatives dealing with corporate governance, life View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Chairman & CEO, Invacare Corporation Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Harvard College, 1962 A.B., Physical Sciences LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "At HBS I learned about all the functional parts of a business...
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- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further...
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Wastes and Waste Processing;
Environmental Sustainability;
Programs;
Cost Management;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Governance Compliance;
Legal Liability;
Chemical Industry;
United States;
Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting
By: Karthik Ramanna
This paper provides an accounting-based conceptual framing of the phenomenon of corporate accountability reporting. Such reporting is seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective,...
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Integrated Corporate Reporting;
For-Profit Firms;
Framework;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Governance;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Research;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Issues
Ramanna, Karthik. "A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-021, September 2011. (Revised July 2012, October 2012.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
How to Fix ESG Reporting
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Investors, advocacy groups, academics, and the 200 CEOs of the US Business Roundtable have asked corporations to take on an added purpose beyond a narrow pursuit of shareholder value. In response, many companies now issue ESG (Environmental, Societal, and Governance)...
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ESG Reporting;
Sustainability;
Corporate Purpose;
Greenhouse Gas;
Activity-Based Costing;
Environmental Sustainability;
Environmental Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Measurement and Metrics;
Goals and Objectives;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Corporate Accountability
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "How to Fix ESG Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-005, July 2021.
- February 2010
- Case
Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel
By: Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert sugarcane into both renewable fuels and renewable chemicals. The Amyris' marketing team was investigating the commercial interest for both types of products, while the...
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Keywords:
Renewable Energy;
Chemicals;
Risk Management;
Product Marketing;
Product Development;
Production;
Environmental Sustainability;
Commercialization;
Biotechnology Industry;
Brazil
Pisano, Gary P., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel." Harvard Business School Case 610-031, February 2010.
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
strategic priorities. This article explains core links between selling initiatives and basic drivers of enterprise value, and it provides suggestions about how best to communicate strategy to busy people in the field. May 2015 Management View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.respol.2014.05.004 February 2015 Psychological Science Review and Summary of Research on the Embodied Effects of Expansive (vs. Contractive) Nonverbal Displays By: Carney, Dana R., Amy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
help build new muscle—had been one of several potential treatments the Secklers chased to no avail, often stuck following promising science to dead ends. That changed three years ago, when former pharmaceutical executive Gene Williams...
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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
by the business community, state and local governments, and the federal government to improve the prospects of American workers and companies. Download the PDF OCT 2016 At The Intersection Of Science & Art Drawing on the vast collection...
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- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
of the traffic on Internet2 is predicted to be between computer and computer.— Richard L. Nolan Internet2 was launched when a group of academics from various university computer science departments wanted to work together on a network of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it may soon come to fruition: Last March, in the wake of a...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising...
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Sean Silverthorne
- May 2024
- Article
Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities
By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter and Kira E O'Hare
Housing policies address the human dimensions of increasing urban density, but their energy and sustainability implications are hard to measure due to challenges with siloed civic data. This is especially critical when evaluating policies targeting low- and...
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Keywords:
Energy Efficiency;
Public Policy;
Climate Change;
Energy Conservation;
Housing;
Analytics and Data Science;
Policy;
Income;
Environmental Sustainability;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Asensio, Omar Isaac, Olga Churkina, Becky D. Rafter, and Kira E O'Hare. "Housing Policies and Energy Efficiency Spillovers in Low and Moderate Income Communities." Nature Sustainability 7, no. 5 (May 2024): 590–601.
- April 1992 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
Grappling with Garbage: The Bandung Municipal Cleansing Enterprise, P.D. Kerbersihan
By: James E. Austin
Keywords:
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business and Government Relations;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Environmental Sustainability;
Indonesia
Austin, James E. "Grappling with Garbage: The Bandung Municipal Cleansing Enterprise, P.D. Kerbersihan." Harvard Business School Case 392-124, April 1992. (Revised June 1994.)
- Profile
Fabian Frick
Fabian Frick’s career trajectory continues to evolve as he allows curiosity to guide his interests. Although he studied computer science through undergraduate and graduate degree programs, Frick found that software development was not...
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From the Dean - Annual Report 2016
earnest on the new facility that will house the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences across Western Avenue. In tandem with a growing i-lab ecosystem and University plans for an enterprise research campus, it’s...
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