Waste Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

operational innovation to manage the tradeoff between cost and quality. It's an issue you find in every business, whether you're a chef or an executive at Mercedes or BMW or Apple." In November, Oldani visited Pisano's second-year... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2004
News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

ditching its appointees: they are unelectable, too westernised to rule by force and unreliable even as puppets. The likely outcome is a government similar to that recently ousted. There were many wasted opportunities in the Middle East.... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

without informing other departments, leading to waste and duplication. Respect among peers declined. Employees regularly went to the press to air grievances, reinforcing the BBC's culture of blame.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter BBC: In 1999, the... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial cell factories. PARTICIPANTS Algoma Homes - Josef Bromovsky (MBA 2023) - Algoma Homes designs and builds net-zero... View Details

05 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

governments can provide, firms serious about addressing it have a critical role well beyond greening their own operations. They must spur government action. But few are. "Green business" as currently practiced focuses on limited operational... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract This paper examines whether monetary... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was to assess the actual cost (vs.... View Details

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

observes Rosabeth Moss Kanter in a new Harvard Business Review article, "Innovation: The Classic Traps." Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

Packaged good manufacturers were eager to create a direct-to-consumer link like the one Dell found to sell computers. Such a link would minimize wasteful and inefficient marketing practices, which to date have mostly focused on broadcast... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

01 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Finding the Confidence to Apply to HBS

management consulting fostering gender equity through Women@BCG. After HBS, she plans to focus her career on promoting Diversity & Inclusion in the workforce. When Erica was considering pursuing her MBA, she discovered that she was... View Details

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

On February 26, 2022, a cohort of HBS MBA students attended ClimateCAP, the Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, and Business. This year, ClimateCAP was hosted by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and drew over 260... View Details

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Psychology Mina Cikara. “If you forecast that no matter what you propose, the other side will hate it, then you are going to say compromise is a waste of time,” Lees says. “People not only have stereotypes of what other people are like,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

their well-being by optimizing cash flow, managing debt, and providing real-time, personalized financial guidance. It's like Mint x ChatGPT for the next generation entering the workforce CareCorgi Hailey How (MPH 2025), Bobby Zhao (MDes... View Details

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

Profile

Anthony Tan

for a mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment. The drivers would be supplied with smartphones so they could communicate directly with prospective customers, thus saving... View Details

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

size of a company's headquarters—it could be that profitable companies waste their money on large headquarters—but it does suggest that companies should not necessarily be looking to minimize the size of their headquarters. Q: The lean... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

CSR initiatives do not include the mangrove conservation project, but are instead focused around skills & livelihoods, public health, waste management, and watershed management (3). As we discussed... View Details

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