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06 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

gap funding for operating expenses and wrap-around needs of the Saathi waste workers who are integral to this operation. During the visit, students questioned the labor intensity and efficiency of the center but HUL shared their View Details

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

This realization led her to pursue inclusion program manager roles at Netflix and later at Amazon. “Each transition has been about a question that needed to be answered or a problem that needed to be solved,” Ramirez explained. With that in mind, she has been View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

strategy in consumer brands, then moving from a corporate strategy role into a GM role, and athletic apparel into accessories and then beauty. Making small, connected steps along the way has allowed me to grow and evolve my career in both View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

Chuck Porter and the type of work he wanted to do, I think this may have been an intentional and very smart strategy. Advertising campaigns for products with strong points of differentiation are much more fun and easier to develop in a... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

reality TV, the first show to put real people on air and allow them to humiliate themselves. Rather than have it be mean-spirited, however, my intent is to make it celebratory of its crazy, deranged sensibility. Last month we debuted it... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

about how it’s designed,” Soltes says. “The intention for revising the legislation is well past due, but I think it can be done in a bit more balanced way—to protect shareholders while at the same time making sure that people who make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

capture. We review the research on when people expect too little and or too much self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naïve and cynical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who considered situations with their eyes closed rather than open judged immoral behaviors as more unethical and moral behaviors as more ethical. In addition, considering potential decisions with closed eyes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

current proposals as well as to consider other options. We believe that the current responses are inadequate, since they do not attack the root causes of the recent problems. Our intention is to encourage further discussion and debate in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. The 2022 finale will take place virtually on March 31. Visit www.hbs.edu/nvc to learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. Codifying Culture If you aren’t View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

13 Aug 2018
Blog Post

Following My Dream: Launching a Venture

traction So far, we were able to acquire a handful of paying customers and have several exciting testing days ahead. Additionally, we ramped up our social media presence (follow us on Instagram @getsmoodi) and are signing letters of View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

wasn't really sure what I would like. As a result, I gravitated toward those jobs that everyone else seemed to want. If everybody else wanted certain jobs, I thought, they must be worth pursuing. Once I was actually in a job, I focused View Details

17 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 17

motivational anchor. Consequently, mail-in rebates either can serve to enhance or to dampen purchase intention depending on a consumer's underlying motivation. In other words, rebates offer consumers a means to justify a preferred course... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

Gutierrez, works as a social entrepreneur focusing on youth issues, and their three children attend school. While continuing to steward the tropical resources that are central to EARTH’s curriculum, Condo and his colleagues are intent on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

they know that they all have the same goal in mind. Talk about how to work together. Set norms that guide communication patterns for an inclusive, psychologically safe, and connected team. Know realities and fill the roles. Be intentional... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

organized crime component is about 30 to 35 percent. A whopping 60 to 65 percent is due to the private sector’s illegal and intentional manipulation of taxes and commercial transactions. How can this be? Because the global system lacks... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2022
News

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

Well, you’re well within your rights to share that, and your boss hopefully will be happy for you. We don’t know, hopefully there’ll be a supportive reaction. But unless you tell your boss your intention is to continue on, working with... View Details

January 2024
Case

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui

ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details

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