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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

rural India.” Danielle Colson MBA 2022 | Co-founder & COO, Mantel “Mantel is developing the first liquid phase materials that capture CO2 at high temperatures. Our molten borate technology enables new process designs that reduce costs by... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

very detrimental. Nester could help avoid that. If the lenders offer buyers/borrowers a faster, easier, or cheaper loan when the buyers/borrowers gets a Nester report that shows some material increase in a Nester residual income score,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

25 Oct 2010
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Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

makes ideal Harvard Business School case material for teaching everything from multinational strategy to on-the-ground logistics. Marketing professor John A. Quelch recently introduced Tesco PLC: Fresh & Easy in the United States,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

news. S&P Capital IQ Pro News, data, and analysis covering a selection of industries, with strong coverage on financials, energy, materials (including metals and mining), insurance, Tech, Media and Telecom (TMT) and more.... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

to improve strategy execution within your team, department, or organization. “I was impressed by how well the course material fit my personal challenges and goals at work, and how easy it was to use the View Details

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Companies: social responsibility

most sustainable corporations. The following websites give background information on social responsibility issues and companies: Benefit Corp Information Center: Benefit corporations have a corporate purpose to create a View Details

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

HBR Group sales increased 3 percent year-over-year, while paid circulation grew 1 percent to a record 352,000 subscribers. HBP Education sales of course materials for participant-centered learning in business education increased 11... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

COVID-19. The pandemic severely impacted the travel industry, creating challenges for many companies like WorldStrides, which... August 2022 Teaching Material PE Secondaries: Blackstone Strategic Partners By: Victoria Ivashina and Luis M.... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

angles between those planes. In 1852, Dr. William Bird Herapath discovered that combining iodine with quinine salt produced tiny crystals with light-polarizing characteristics that could direct and block planes of light. But low-cost polarizing View Details

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

5 Sep 2013
Conference Presentation

The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States

By: Ai Hisano

This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details

Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

materials will I have access to after completing Organizational Leadership? + – You will have access to the materials in every prior module as you progress through the program. Access to course View Details

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

bring to life the stories of a diverse and passionate array of changemakers, through projects like Pathways to a Just Digital Future and our Glass-Shattering Leaders case series, and our teaching material collections. Role models are one... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

fourth book, Alignment, described principle #3, how to create and capture corporate synergies through vertical and horizontal alignment of business and support units. The fourth book also contained material on principle #4, aligning and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2019
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Remix

dissatisfaction with an employer’s response. In both cases, the decision comes with a price: from the material losses of firm-specific human capital—which is linked to earnings—to severed access to professional networks, financial strain,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

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Resources - Creating Emerging Markets

Resources Events CEM has hosted international conferences in Boston, Mumbai, and Santiago that attracted prominent scholars, archivists, and practitioners in the respective regions. Published Materials The interviews in the CEM archive... View Details

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

impact on society, knowing that one’s life is measured by the impact on others, not by material possessions, as my grandfather had done. This conviction fueled my lifelong mission to improve the human condition through innovation and... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

chain of custody certification, provide documented traceability so manufacturers, brands, and companies can trust the quality and the origin of the material they are using. Goodwin previously worked on ocean plastic issues as cofounder... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

material stake in ShermansTravel Media in 2007 (and recently reacquired). Daniels and Sherman wanted their readers to sense an immediacy, as if they were “having a cup of coffee with these founders,” Sherman says. A would-be entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

student retention and engagement; students are making connections between the case material and previous lessons, and some who were reluctant to speak up earlier in the semester are now joining the class conversation. “In education in the... View Details