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technologies. At Athena Cleantech, we are helping companies minimize their carbon footprint while creating an ecosystem for sustainable technologies to scale rapidly.” Prashant Pundrik PLDA 9 Director, Athena Cleantech Pte. Ltd. Lisa Yao... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
the business world,” he says. “They are the customers current CEOs are responding to when they make sustainable choices.” “The message is that opportunities exist every day to make a difference. The question... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Filter Results: (227) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details
- 04 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
companies including IBM, GE, Bath Iron Works, and L.L. Bean that recognize the link between healthy businesses and healthy communities. They are tapping into business’s unique resources to address community health challenges. Their... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
to HBS was Sustainability & Technology Collaboration Engineer at Pratt & Whitney. Luca Mantovani (MBA 2025, Section J), Summer Internship: Business Operations, Antora Energy Antora Energy is a Series... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
topic and hope that this piece provides a helpful starter guide on the intersection of business and environmental justice. Summary: Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice in the US – What Businesses Need... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
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- Book
Fit In Stand Out: Mastering the FISO Factor, The Key to Leadership Effectiveness in Business and Life
By: Blythe J. McGarvie
While studying and practicing business effectiveness, leadership expert Blythe McGarvie uncovered a vital lesson: successful leaders are systems thinkers. Two forces power business systems: integration (Fit In) and transformation (Stand Out). By mastering the FISO... View Details
- December 2019
- Supplement
Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Mariana Cal
Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mãe Terra—one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods—into its own structures, after acquiring the company in 2017. Mãe Terra’s CEO, Alexandre Borges, must decide whether to implement his original... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Sustainability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Environmental Sustainability; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil; Latin America
Paine, Lynn S., Ruth Costas, and Mariana Cal. "Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-069, December 2019.
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details
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- 2016
- Chapter
Ignore, Avoid, Abandon, and Embrace: What Drives Firm Responses to Environmental Regulation?
By: David F. Drake and Robin L. Just
A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental regulation in a variety of ways: complying with its intent; avoiding the regulation by... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Environmental Operations; Regulation; Cost vs Benefits; For-Profit Firms; Operations; Environmental Sustainability
Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just. "Ignore, Avoid, Abandon, and Embrace: What Drives Firm Responses to Environmental Regulation?" In Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains, edited by Atalay Atasu. New York: Springer, 2016.
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- February 2011
- Article
When the Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Joint Venture Dissolution
By: Francisco Polidoro Jr., Gautam Ahuja and Will Mitchell
The embeddedness of interfirm relationships in a social structure can engender order in new tie formation, but competitive incentives may undermine the order that firms seek to achieve and lead to tie dissolution. We examine how relational embeddedness (history of... View Details
Keywords: Social Structure; Business Enterprises; Strategic Alliances (Business); Business Networks (Research); Competition; Joint Ventures; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks
Polidoro, Francisco, Jr., Gautam Ahuja, and Will Mitchell. "When the Social Structure Overshadows Competitive Incentives: The Effects of Network Embeddedness on Joint Venture Dissolution." Academy of Management Journal 54, no. 1 (February 2011): 203–223.
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K.... View Details