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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “Monte di pietà, an institution of Christian piety, may licitly charge money for outlays, losses, and even for a moderate return.” 4 — Pope Leo X,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
School’s ability in recent years to grow fellowship aid at a faster pace than the rise in tuition and fees. “Fellowship aid has doubled over the past five years, so the real cost of attending HBS has... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
lot has changed in the automobile business since Mark Fields (MBA 1989) was a young man growing up in Paramus, tooling around in his ride (full disclosure: his mom’s 1976 Chevy Caprice) on his way to becoming a rising executive on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
retaining customers than programs that focus on retaining customers but add cost to the product or service." Others tended to regard Treacy's and Reichheld's views as complementary. "I don't see a conflict," said Jack... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
their time when contracting out their skills than when permanently employed. "This group clearly chose contracting as a way of working. This is not work of last resort," Bradach notes. The arrangement, he says, may give rise to a new... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
dropped their $120 subscription it cost everyone in the chain, from the distributor to every content channel. Eventually the industry had to pay attention. There are currently two primary approaches to winning back cord-cutters and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
rising leaders in 120 companies and how they dealt with them. The challenges included handling rising pressure and recovering from mistakes; dealing with office villains; taking uncomfortable risks; and... View Details
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Charitable Remainder Trust - Alumni
Quarterly payments for life to you and/or the people you choose Charitable income tax deduction Avoid capital gains tax Gift and estate tax savings Your trust can be invested with the Harvard endowment or in alternative tax-efficient options Expert management services... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription
for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care and health-care-focused... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
2023, Google and Bing both launched their own versions of a chatbot for search. The AI boom was underway—and so was the AI research boom. Many predict that GenAI will change the face of business as dramatically as the rise of the internet... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
individuals are not faced with this perplexing choice of how to characterize their income depending on the audience, corporations do find themselves in this curious situation. A dual-reporting system is standard in corporate America and, judging from recent analysis,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
research that suggests that an organization's practices have profound effects on the health of its employees. A large body of research offers evidence of the following: (1) Organizations implementing health and wellness programs for their employees realize significant... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
manager-caused catastrophes are happening more frequently and with larger consequences. More frequently because of a rise in joint ventures, where teams across organizations and companies find it easiest to adopt a "go along to get along"... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details