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I created and teach a course called Strategies for Value Creation (SVC). It is designed to be a capstone course in the Elective Curriculum (EC or second year of the MBA program) that integrates and further develops concepts developed in several Required Curriculum (RC... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Finance; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Financial Management

April 2024 (Revised October 2024)
Case

New Belgium Brewing and Climate Change

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kenneth P. Pucker and Michael Norris

In 2023, Colorado-based craft brewery New Belgium Brewing was considering how best to meet its emissions reduction targets. After decades of growth, the beermaker had grown to become one of the largest craft brewers in the U.S., and was purchased in 2019 by Japanese... View Details

Keywords: Beer; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Credits; Operation Management; Renewable Energy; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Accounting; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Colorado

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16 Sep 2019
News

Smarter Farming

Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale farming on the environment. “PAMU... View Details

Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture

David Rockefeller

Having gained much international experience while serving in the United States military during World War II, Rockefeller joined Chase in 1945, honing his international banking skills as he assumed increasing amounts of responsibility and... View Details

Keywords: Finance

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

The Supreme Court has spoken, and its ruling last Friday has evoked myriad responses from across the United States—from the far right to the far left, from small businesses to giant corporations, from pundits to the person on the street.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

low-quality care,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. Edmondson and her colleagues studied the survey responses of clinicians at a midwestern health organization over a four-year period; they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

them and, in many cases, ruled over them. Arsalan published his response in a series of articles written for the Cairo-based Islamic journal, Al-Manār. Subsequently, these articles were combined and published, in 1930, in a book entitled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

about fostering inclusion; they range from a rules-based approach to those emphasizing selection, training, and other ways of managing to meet the objective. There should be an effort to avoid the rules-based approach. These were some of the conclusions to be drawn... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

to be more responsive to markets? The risk exposure calculator helps answer these questions. Another powerful tool we describe in detail is the "profit wheel," a model of the flow of operating profit through a business that enables an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

subsides. Kominers taught the case—remotely via Zoom—last spring in the Making Markets elective course. Europe Research Center The Europe Research Center helped research and write the case “Unilever’s Response to the Future of Work” by... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right

only expected MPG to improve to 45 in that same span of time. When I’m advising clients across industries, leaders often ask how their corporate social responsibility initiatives will help them win millennial affinity, and the truth is,... View Details

Profile

Justine Lelchuk

"You're in constant contact with peers, professors, administrators, other schools – it makes you walk the talk in being a leader. As conflict arises, you have to reflect. Before, challenges would've made me defensive. After just one year, I can see how much I've... View Details

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Chao Zeng

case, I become a different person with multiple responses to complex situations. Second, it’s the interaction with people – as section representative, as a class member, or as a member of a FIELD team. By working with people from diverse... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Financial Services

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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

that contribute to development and are crucial for growth.” Abena began with GE’s medical and health care device divisions, serving as a business analyst responsible for “increasing growth and market share” in West & Central Africa.... View Details

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1.20 Joint Degree Programs | MBA

management skills. All Joint Degree students are required to complete the MBA Required Curriculum in its entirety. Students enrolled in a Joint Degree program are fully responsible for knowing their specific program’s guidelines for... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years

greater clarity about their professional future, and 53 percent gained more responsibility at work. The HBS Online experience creates such a strong connection that students are eager to engage with the School and each other in person. At... View Details

Keywords: HBS Online; Educational Innovation

01 Jun 2016
News

Escape from Alcatraz

Conquer: To escape from the first room of the Spook House, team members have to divide up tasks, each taking responsibility for observing and reporting on a different part of the room. Fail to Succeed: What can you learn from sand,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Books

Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus (Wiley) An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

dynamics tool that he was responsible for creating—on a Sunday when he had a major personal engagement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407037 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (B)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

responsible for managing major public health issues, the leader with the skills to coordinate responses and put the public at ease. Absent that, the President has tapped Ron Klain, a Washington insider known... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

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