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  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

  Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Organizations and professionals from around the world participate in our Executive Education programs, access our research publications, and interact with our students and alumni through field-based projects, recruitment activities, and... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions

Keywords: by Lisa L.Shu & Max H. Bazerman
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs in 2016 to address climate change and bring electric battery manufacturing to Europe. The company successfully built a “gigafactory” near the Arctic Circle and was soon on track to become one of the world’s largest and most View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

year. Using Internet Data for Economic Research Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

practices, which, in turn, ensures sustained commitment and performance. Southwest Airlines, for example, has had, ever since its founding, a high-level culture committee that periodically assesses company culture and reports its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310026-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310027-PDF-ENG Peter Schultz at The Scripps Research Institute Harvard Business School Case 910-408 Peter Schultz,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

participation, even when they do not specifically target their communities and concerns. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50666 Harvard Business School Case 916-414 Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing Through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September–October 2023
  • Article

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: The Effects of Common Ownership on Corporate Social Responsibility

By: Mark R. DesJardine, Jody Grewal and Kala Viswanathan
Common owners face an incredible investment challenge: managing systematic risk. Because common owners hold shares in multiple firms across an industry, an action (or inaction) by one firm that affects industry peers is felt more severely by common owners than by... View Details
Keywords: Common Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Return
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

corporate governance , financial reporting , financial statement analysis , globalization Interviews Said Darwazah Anand Burman Brian L. Trelstad Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Research Interests : nonprofit , social change ,... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

results have implications for existing theories of financial constraints for entrepreneurs, as well as research looking at the effect of banking competition on the efficient allocation of capital. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

had already used a significant amount of the $40 million in funding committed by DaVita; the company's primary care clinics had not yet reached the number of patients necessary to sustain a profitable business; and it was in the midst of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

important questions to explore, according to Michael Toffel, a professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit of Harvard Business School. Toffel has conducted extensive research and recently co-organized a conference at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Embrapa

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production system that will allow farmers and ranchers to intensify production and improve profitability. Broad adoption of the technology would provide the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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  • March 1996
  • Article

Does it Pay to be Green? An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Emission Reduction and Firm Performance

By: Stuart L. Hart and Gautam Ahuja
Evidence can be marshalled to support either the view that pollution abatement is a cost burden on firms and is detrimental to competitiveness, or that reducing emissions increases efficiency and saves money, giving firms a cost advantage. In an effort to resolve this... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Performance Efficiency; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy
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  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

decisions? Each team member is responsible for research within their area: talking to big customers, participating in supplier forums and webinars, scouring competitor websites. At the meeting, team members share their findings and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

to find out if your changes are working.” Believing in the process In the book, Beer describes how the carefully designed strategic fitness process has helped companies bring their problems into the light. It has been applied by numerous CEOs, and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman