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02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

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Konstantin Chebotar

Growing up in a mining town in the Far East of Russia, Konstantin Chebotar naturally gravitated to geoscience and the oil and gas industry. "I observed all these geological processes and overheard geological conversations," he... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

twentieth century was a learning century, then the twenty-first century is a performance century." In considering whether job performance is a matter of each person's innate natural ability or a matter of how well a company trains... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

June 2001 (Revised November 2001)
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Plum Creek Timber (B)

By: Max H. Bazerman, Jack Troast, Hannah Bowles and Nicole Nasser

Plum Creek Timber Co. decides to go ahead with negotiations for a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) on its Pacific Northwest properties. HCP represents a new form of public-private-sector collaboration and innovation to improve upon command-and-control environmental... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Government Relations; Forest Products Industry; United States

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October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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SMART: AI and Machine Learning for Wildlife Conservation

By: Brian Trelstad and Bonnie Yining Cao

Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), a set of software and analytical tools designed for the purpose of wildlife conservation, had demonstrated significant improvements in patrol coverage, with some observed reductions in poaching and contributing to wildlife... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Technology Adoption; Strategy; Management; Ethics; Social Enterprise; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Natural Environment; Technology Industry; Cambodia; United States; Africa

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09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

as CEO), Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity, SOS Kinderdorf, and The Nature Conservancy. Each was mapped on two dimensions—one that exerts forces toward unit autonomy and the other influencing the degree of organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

with fellow alumni from around the world. While sub-Saharan Africa - consisting of the 48 countries south of the Sahara desert -is underdeveloped and faces staggering challenges, experts agree that the region, with its vast natural View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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Anddria Clack

variety of industries. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? All of the resources at Harvard Business School are designed to help you make more informed and thoughtful decisions about... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Other Financial Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations

the 21st century: “Advancing women means breaking free of a new set of stereotypes and assumptions, not only for women, but also for men. It means challenging a much wider range of conventional wisdom about what we value and why, about measures of success, about the... View Details

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

linking the customer management effort to profitability. The initial phase is important, he says, because the customers a company serves define the very nature of the organization itself and, in turn, the customers and prospects it will... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

31 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

technology platform around naturally occurring beneficial bacteria found on all plants. After a career in private equity and venture capital, Steve became an entrepreneur in 2012, helping to feed a growing population in a sustainable way.... View Details

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

enormous pressure, making it critical that farmers find ways to save money. To survive this long, they’ve had to change constantly." Donnie Benjamin MBA 2015 | Mapping the Future of Sustainability "My experiences in the military showed me that densely populated... View Details

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Celia Stafford

interdisciplinary nature of the doctoral programs. What’s more, the unparalleled access to resources both within and beyond Harvard has opened a plethora of research opportunities to her. Reflecting on the... View Details

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

insights, tools, and behaviors that these leaders developed—often, on the fly—and then used to steer through the crisis and to accomplish their ambitious goals. In each instance, we will assess which of these resources are useful to... View Details

12 Mar 2024
HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology

07 Sep 2017
Blog Post

How One Organization Increased Their Internship Yield

Murphy, “Companies have put tremendous time, thought and management resources into selecting and evaluating new talent, the potential leaders of the future.” But it’s at this precise juncture, when the pressure is greatest, that companies... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

July 1993 (Revised September 1995)
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Block 16: Ecuadorian Government's Perspective

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the government perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed to students who will be playing the role of Ecuadorian government officials. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Perspective; Corporate Strategy

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10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

resources; and transferring resources through informal transactions. Searching for resources outside one’s immediate connections. When it comes to hunting down resources, most startups View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services