Business and Environment Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing View Details

04 Jun 2014
News

Boards and Shareholders Redrawing Their Boundaries

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers age Hispanics become fastest-growing minority Population grows from 250 million to 281 million Influence: Medium-High 1900 19 Model T Plastic Safety razor Widespread use of steam engine, electricity, View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative, says HBS... View Details

03 Apr 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival Amid Political and Civil Violence

Keywords: by Shon Hiatt & Wesley Sine

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

or Visa), each of which may or may not be inclined to provide access. Some of the data, such as banking information, is not controlled by the business owner. This is why Open Banking initiatives in Europe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

10 Dec 2012
News

Harvard Business School's Robert Eccles to Chair Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

25 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

Persistence. Teamwork. Grit and grace in victory and defeat. Intercollegiate varsity sports may build such skills that employers prize—and that later propel former players into management roles faster than... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Loan Assistance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and public sectors. Starting with the October 2017 application cycle, the program expanded with a pilot program to support alumni in select for-profit social enterprise positions. Eligibility, criteria, and... View Details

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

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Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

with the social impact of the organization. Managerial opportunity and opportunity for managerial development, particularly jobs that require business and managerial skills... View Details

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Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

opportunity out of business school-they think along the traditional linear path: learn, earn, and return. And there's a separation in their minds between the public View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Harvard Social Enterprise Conference: 25 Years of Spurring Dialogue for Social Impact Aaisha Shah Lisa Gunther Simona Stancov Thomas Ranese 06 Aug 2024 In spring of 2000, students from Harvard Business School View Details

December 12, 2024
Article

6 Lessons from Companies That Shut Down Their Business in Russia

By: Kalle Heikkinen, William R. Kerr, Mika Malin, Panu Routila and Joel Ryynänen

Increasingly, companies are being pressured to decouple from regions that customers, employees, politicians, advocacy groups, and even leaders deem politically fraught. This can pose a dilemma for executives, as research both shows that fast decision-making is vital,... View Details

Keywords: Public Opinion; Ethics; International Relations; Crisis Management

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31 Jul 2017
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It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

processes and procedures work, dealing with problematic financial accounting, and facing the possibility of deteriorating service as the patriarch pulls away. “This is much harder than anything I find in my... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

09 Oct 2013
News

Why business can be good at solving social problems

13 Sep 2021
News

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

January 2018
Supplement

BeiGene Supplemental PowerPoint

By: Willy C. Shih and Jimmy Zhang

BeiGene was a biopharmaceutical company founded on exploiting a temporal regulatory policy discontinuity. Because of regulatory challenges in China, most innovative new drugs launched there four to six years after their initial U.S. launches. This gave BeiGene a window... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; China; Regulatory Environment; Business Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China