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- 12 Jul 2018
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In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks about his growing interest in View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Institute for Sustainable Investing, that shows that 80 percent of individual investors in those next generations are interested in sustainable investments that can be customized to meet their interests and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Management, BEI Faculty Chair Michael Toffel studies how companies are managing environmental and working conditions in their operations and supply chains, including how companies are engaging in decarbonization. He hosts the HBS Climate... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Wachsner, who also is responsible for building a trusted source of knowledge about sustainable food production at the Organic Production Intelligence Center. The four-day seminar draws nearly 200 industry leaders to campus from some 40... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
Thanks to diligent fiscal management and growth from income-producing activities, Harvard Business School finished fiscal year 2004 last June in a strong financial position. Total revenues of $309 million reflected a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year, while... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Built to Last
Dallas or Succession,” says Weisiger, who started out working in a company warehouse at the age of 14. While those backstabbing, dynastic stories dominate popular imagination, operating outside the pressure of the quarterly earnings... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will it ever be enough to solve the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Business as a Force for Good
firms strive toward a more sustainable business model. In this video, Coupounas explains how her organization pursues its goals: “HBS was really essential in helping me establish what I really believed in as an entrepreneur, as a business... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development When Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) was shopping for real estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018, she had some atypical... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women through friend-to-friend retail... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative, says HBS faculty are developing and teaching cases that incorporate environmental sustainability issues for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
producers. Operational efficiencies will allow Gold Rush Vinyl—which started with $750,000 raised from family, friends, and an SBA loan, to cover the expensive pressing equipment—to reduce wait time from an industry standard of twelve to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
than 45 energy conservation measures, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 2,495 metric tons of carbon dioxide, reducing operating costs $920,000, and maximizing utility rebates totaling upwards of $830,000. Shad’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Father of Modern Advertising
copywriters at Lord Thomas invented the “salesmanship in print” business model that sustained the industry for decades to come. In short, the firm convinced clients that print ads should follow a salesman’s approach, offering the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, environmental View Details
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
“alliance,” not a merger), he is the only person ever to simultaneously head two Fortune 500 companies. This “alliance” has brought together two companies that maintain their substantially different cultures but nonetheless operate in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
sustainability entrepreneur with a background in marketing and environmental management, laid out the facts of the global climate crisis and made clear that the speed of drone reforesting can play a critical role in stemming a climate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley