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- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
Apple's Tim Cook is one of an increasing number of CEOs using the corporate bully pulpit to promote social views. @iStock In their paper Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews on the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: HelloFresh
OrganizationAmna Belhedi, Global HR Business Partner at HelloFresh Describe your organization in three to five sentences.HelloFresh is the global leading meal kit delivery service. We aim to revolutionize the way people eat by making it more convenient and exciting to... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the alumni community. He considers the mobilization of alumni as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
helps us keep everything in perspective.” What has your typical client been most concerned about, given the harsh realities of today's investment climate? You know, I don't really have any “typical” clients, and that's one of the best... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
wells. The people with whom he was working had come up with a process to take 90 percent of the oil out of the wastewater from an oil well, which can use millions of gallons of... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 316-124 Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors’ Companies and Communities On Investors’ Role: “Directing capital to companies that can use it productively is ultimately the most profound benefit investors can have on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
business down into 21 profit centers and use a strategic, cost-analysis approach to retail.” Although Hustead spent summers as a teenager working at Wall Drug, it wasn’t initially his career of choice. In 1973, after two years of college,... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Central to the food rescue is the organization’s trademarked program, Community Connect, which facilitates redistribution through volunteers and groups such as local Rotary International chapters and church organizations, which transport the food to agencies that are... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully housecleaning (it takes less than an hour. Seriously.). It's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Shara Ticku
Shara Ticku is the CEO and Co-Founder of C16 Biosciences, the makers of Palmless : the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives. C16’s proprietary technology platform uses biomanufacturing to create... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
roamed the streets. I’d put on my Irish soccer jersey, tell some jokes, flash a letter from the oil ministry, and hope for the best. They’d let us pass. Today, life is improving. Infrastructure is slowly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
where they usually keep their cows — marked by a circle of large sticks poking out of the ground — they took us into their huts and showed us where they cooked and slept. Then... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former executive at Shell View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
food.” Traeger’s 1.7 million social media followers, a mainstay of brand loyalty in uncertain times, continue to reinforce the company-customer bond, participating in live, online cooking classes that average 144,000 weekly views,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
business partner. The other was her microwave. Day was in the habit of cooking all her meals just as her mom had done when she was a child, but she had to believe in her own product—which meant that every plate of kale ricotta ravioli or... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace