World Wildlife Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2019
News

Enabling Big Thinking

ethical behavior of management, for example,” explains Cameron, who is part owner of Blackbushe Airport in Surrey, England. “We have always supported HBS and believe we should give something back. The fund gives us the opportunity to say... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

examine his attributes. Perhaps the key to his success was his total knowledge of military history, tactics, and procedures. That knowledge, combined with his own World War I combat experience and his great “stage presence,” made him a... View Details

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of this approach is time. We live... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details

Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

Innovative Companies in Travel’ by Fast Company alongside Airbnb and Google. Bashir used her experience and contacts at startups like the Gilt Groupe and Artsy to secure millions in funding from the likes of Google’s Eric Schmidt,... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

Cohen is considering a career transition into health care. "I'd like to apply my skills in marketing and communications to health and medical services. In particular, the e-health world is exploding with incredible opportunity." This... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

13 Nov 2020
News

New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to raise awareness about the New England Shelter for... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2003
News

The Power of National Identity

International Monetary Fund looked at “the deeply institutionalized economic interdependence” that existed among these states and assumed that continued close economic cooperation would be “an obvious necessity.” Similarly, many View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; Government

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

cofounder Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009), to name a few. Like Kraus, Zatlyn has a list, an Excel spreadsheet of hundreds of names of other women in the tech field. So many more women than she could name when she started in the tech world 10... View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Sustainability in VCPE & Investing

This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings Private Equity and Venture Capital’s Role in Catalyzing Sustainable Investment A paper from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the View Details

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ inner-city residents to design,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

same rules. "Mexico has an incredibly low level of taxation. It simply lacks the public funds to invest in itself," Maurer says. "A lack of foreign investment is not why Mexico is less prosperous than Arizona," he... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2014
News

The Next Lessons

Khan Academy began in 2004 as a family favor: To help his teenaged cousins understand a few math concepts, hedge fund analyst Salman Khan (MBA 2003) offered after-school math tutoring via phone calls and explainer videos. A decade later,... View Details

Keywords: William Weber

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details