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Career Support - Business & Environment
Development . Events Agribusiness Seminar Networking Session An opportunity to network with alumni working in agribusiness. Open to members of the Food, Agriculture, & Water Club. (January) Career Panels (login required) BEI partners with... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
the context of an ethical framework that legitimizes self-interested behavior. Our challenge is to provide evidence and arguments for why the 'self-interest' ethical framework does not hold water in the case of 'thin political... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India
expanded services to include the supply and distribution of sustainable energy through solar lighting, thermal water heaters, and inverter systems, enabling the underserved sector to receive sustainable energy at affordable costs. SELCO... View Details
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
looked past their stubborn bargaining positions to their underlying interests. By stepping back and mapping the parties' real interests, it emerged that the farmers were worried about reduced water flow below the dam, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
takeaway is the difficulty of embedding sustainability when there is an inherent tension in the business model—in this case growing their cow-based business while reducing inherent environmental impacts like methane emissions, land use, and soil and View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
about how quickly to expect responses and learn to practice patience, he says. “If you post a message in Slack, trust that people will be responsible and come to it when they can,” he says. “It doesn’t hurt to throw your question in the deep, dark View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Enrico Ferrari
own." Enrico is planning on testing the venture capital waters during his summer break. "I've been on the operational and execution side, now I want to see the investors' side for a complete picture before I launch my next... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
four elements that many cultures talk about: fire, wind, water, earth —which one is you? And so, you start off by saying, okay, earth for me is, and then you write all the elements that make up earth. And water is for me. And then you're... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
includes reducing emissions, waste, and energy and water use; implementing green operation standards in building and campus maintenance; and promoting healthy, smart, and sustainable dining options. The campus is a living laboratory for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
better absorb water and nutrients. Below the topsoil is subsoil: lighter in color and much denser, with more sand, clay, and rocks in its composition and very little organic matter. Below that, bedrock. December 5 marks World Soil Day, an... View Details
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
Health Climate change is predicted to be responsible for 250,000 additional deaths each year between 2030 and 2050 as the result of heat exposure among the elderly, childhood undernutrition, malaria, and other diseases exacerbated by climate change [7] . View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19 vaccines. A negative externality might be poor View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
chemicals and water that you use to produce the items, but also the waste. People throw away 90 percent of what they are going to buy in the next two years. So it’s just amazing. In the US and in the UK, people throw away about 30 kilos... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
change on the competitive landscape. Highlights Absolute Advantage - Static of Production Frontier Water and Food Show Hide Details Concepts Trade Cross Border Investment Immigration Energy and Sustainability Peace and War Featured... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
and Wood conducted as part of their market research. “I asked them, ‘Well, how many waters are you serving? How many seltzers with lime?’” The bartenders had no answers for that. “They weren’t understanding the opportunity—they couldn’t... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
larger audience," Deshpandé says. Creating Value "Branding Yoga" is one of five branding cases Deshpandé uses in his classes to explore how companies create brands that are differentiated and worthy of a price premium. In addition to yoga, he cites the... View Details