Environmental Strategies - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. Rule 1: The home market is the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

‘Your tribal corn.’” Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story later told in the 2016 documentary Seed. At the time, Keen was serving as a representative on the Cherokee National Council. During a meeting of its View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

June 2007 (Revised June 2008)
Case

GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Brian J. Hall and Nicole Bennett

In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up with "Imagination Breakthroughs," innovative new projects that would serve as the centerpiece of GE's organic growth initiative. Follows the company as these changes are driven through the... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

reversed a decades-old investment policy and announced it would no longer invest in fossil fuels. How effective are investing strategies that seek to promote environmental or social impacts? This interactive... View Details

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Harvard Business School

profitable strategy investing in communications companies targeting urban neighborhoods. The corporation's long-term investment in Radio One, a Black company that was the fastest-growing radio broadcasting company in 2000, paid tremendous... View Details

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

our research examines. We find that, to the contrary, the success of voluntary regulation is contingent on a robust regime of government inspection and enforcement. Within such a regime, we find that voluntary compliance efforts by regulated firms can actually lead to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers... View Details

February 2021
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Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris

In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did... View Details

Keywords: Solar Energy; Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Salesforce Management; Diversification; Expansion; Energy Industry; Africa; South Africa; Malawi; Uganda

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15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Richard H.k. Vietor Richard H.K. Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy. Al's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2013
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Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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By: Debora L. Spar

Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

Since the start of the 2000s, a high-level corporate position has evolved that is still something of a mystery. As companies have engaged in more efforts around sustainability, environmental and otherwise, the "chief sustainability... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

learning on campus and—by partnering with Harvard Business Publishing—in business classrooms around the world. The required Strategy course, for example, includes the “Strategic Brew” simulation, which puts all 900 first-year MBA students... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

green business profitable is an even harder journey. For society's sake, entrepreneurs must be prepared to make that journey, says Geoffrey Jones. A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof.... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Oct 2001
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Porter Directs New Institute at HBS

A new Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), directed by Michael E. Porter, opened at HBS in July. The interdisciplinary ISC is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research on competition and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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