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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

justice—particularly the disproportionate effects on marginalized communities locally and globally. Impact Weighted Accounts The mission of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project is to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a... View Details

03 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'

all of us. DeLollis: When it comes to race, technology, and tomorrow’s business outcomes, what advice would you give to CEOs, CMOs, and other top decision makers? Turner: I advise them that if marginalized people and women weren’t... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis

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Beth Clark | About

HarvardWIT+, a community dedicated to advancing marginalized genders in IT across Harvard. Her commitment extends through her involvement in EDUCAUSE , where she serves on the EDUCAUSE Review Advisory Committee (ERAC) and mentors the next... View Details

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

were not strong enough to prevent the growth of private labels in Europe, but they were sufficient to maintain Unilever's strong position in higher margin products. It was able to leverage knowledge of brands and products between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

To realize the hopes of those early International Women’s Day activists—to make power more accessible and recognize the capabilities of marginalized voices—we need to tackle the systems that keep these barriers locked in place and move... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

07 May 2012
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The Art of Haggling

Wheeler reminds students of a core strategic choice: assessing when to focus on dividing the pie and when to focus on growing it. "Sometimes getting 70 percent of the small pie might be better than getting 50 percent of a marginally... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

07 May 2014
What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

diagnoses. Others advocated tax and non-tax solutions. The case against hasty change was made by Dave: "Market based capitalism is the greatest driving force of prosperity in the world today, but if we forget this and marginalize it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

do even better." The Bmw Bundle Although it's difficult to determine without additional research, Kumar says a bundling strategy is likely to find success with a variety of products—especially where one piece of the bundle is produced at very low cost. Digital... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

that’s quite different from mainstream festivals. “This has been one of the most intentional and active responses to the #MeToo movement that I’ve seen in the music industry,” Gandhi says. This idea of creating space for marginalized... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

Past studies have bolstered the idea that marginalized groups might find more career opportunities if they downplay their identities. But women and minorities may actually benefit by explicitly mentioning their identities, at least when... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

marginalized in our country will be harmed if the positions Trump has taken are translated into policy during his administration: Immigrant families, LGBTQ citizens, African Americans, Muslims and others are fearful that disparaging, even... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

care. It’s all the other expensive stuff that we need when we’re really sick. And Amazon is no expert in managing any of that. “Because Amazon might be able to introduce supply-chain disruptions that increase its profit margin does not... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

saffron to wider markets and realized it represented a compelling value proposition. “Farmers could make more money, especially as it’s a very high-price crop, and because saffron is so light, it’s easy to transport by air. The margins... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

there is anything illegal about what Carrier, or many companies before it, is doing. It is carrying out the wishes of shareholders of its parent, United Technologies. As UT’s CEO, Greg Harris, put it in explaining his company’s continued high profit performance, “what... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Agarwal MBA 2010 | Founder & CEO, Mati Carbon Removals “Mati uses enhanced weathering in agricultural fields for doing scalable, permanent carbon removals, with co-benefits to marginal farmers. Leveraging our proprietary technology, we... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

indifferent to waiting for greater commissions and closing the deal now and getting inducted into the club. The willingness-to-pay statistic at the software firm is calculated to be nearly $30,000, or approximately 5 percent of take-home pay. "My research shows that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

Kimberlé Crenshaw, can help to think about environmentalism as well. Intersectionality is the idea that individuals exist in a crossroads of all their identities, with privilege and marginalization in the intersection between their class,... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

need for eBay to maintain expensive centralized monitoring and feedback systems. The company can charge commissions that are no higher than 7 percent of a given transaction—well below the typical 30 percent to 70 percent margins most... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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Rishon Benjamin

Profit Margin. Asset Turn. Leverage. Three simple ingredients that have become near daily fixtures of my MBA experience. Is this the education that is supposed to help me make a difference in the world? Can it really be so easy? Profit View Details

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

at work and why it matters. Gazette: Though everyone can find it hard to feel comfortable in their own skin, especially at work, you say the idea behind this course came out of the challenges that Black people, as well as other View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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