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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
Creating an autonomous, entrepreneurial subsidiary may often be the best solution to this dilemma. Are there implications for entrepreneurial organizations, as well? Yes, very clear implications. If your business plan is based on a View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
recyclable, compostable paper for shipping. Because the lightweight bottles contain no liquids and the tablets are nickel-sized, the environmental impact of delivering the products to consumers is lessened. “We’re fortunate to be building this View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
easy; finding a business model that was going to be sustainable was the hardest. There was a lot of competition, people weren’t purchasing things online yet, funding started drying up, then the Nasdaq... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 14, more than 200 alumni in the New Your area gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "HBS in New York:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
institutions—and that this failure has put capitalism itself at risk. In this conversation, Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, discusses the need for an honest, capable, and transparent government, and the role View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
sustainable institutions and organizations and inspire hope and opportunity in communities around the world. Nitin has set out an ambitious agenda for the School—exactly what is needed to educate the next generation of leaders in View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success
The sixth annual HBS Cyberposium, held on February 19 and 20, drew many of the high-tech industry's best-known entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as more than thirteen hundred participants from HBS and other View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
a big toe in the water because the river was, at that time, a chemical and organic cesspool,” he remembers. Today, Merkl is helping to shift environmental thinking with initiatives that balance conservation with business acumen: “We know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Ventures True Wealth Ventures also focuses specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a combined global audience of close... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book’s distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and... View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- News
An interest in harnessing technology
Edmund Rogers (MBA 2015) wants to create sustainable businesses within the technology space that allow people to achieve their goals more efficiently. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
says Bailey. “If we lose these, we have nothing.” Accordingly, green technology and sustainability are not just nice add-ons but business imperatives. Yet traditional bottom-line considerations pertain as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
chain, and lower the carbon footprint,” Behn says. Business more than doubled in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many consumers were looking to avoid grocery stores. Then volumes doubled again a month later. In May the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
to provide the resources needed to change the world. Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way by Ram Charan (MBA 1965, DBA 1967), Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem (Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details