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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

improvements, and beautification. Since 2007, the DUMBO BID has done "small things that are collectively big" to improve the area and are in line with New York City's "plaNYC," a blueprint to become a "sustainable city" by increasing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

Gino, F., and C. Mogilner Abstract—Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2024
  • Case

Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project

By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine
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Ruback, Richard S., Matthew Preble, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 224-735, June 2024.
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

extreme heat, loss of the Web or telephone lines, disruption in the water supply). 2. A flexible set of response modules. Leaders should be able to pull combinations of pre-set response "modules" off the shelf. Modularizing the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

to consider which of two charities should receive a $100 donation: Kids Korps USA, an organization aimed at engaging young people in volunteerism, or charity: water, which brings clean drinking water to people in developing nations. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

reaching, and extracting the trapped miners. Senior leaders in the Chilean government provided resources to support the on-site efforts. How senior leadership triggered extreme teaming In Santiago, Chile’s capital city, President Piæera... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/a-global-leaders-guide-to-managing-business-conduct/ar/1   Working PapersDynamically Integrating Knowledge in Teams: Transforming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

"Entrepreneurship is the relentless pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled." That's a great definition, and it was true of Shackleton when his objective was to walk across Antarctica. He had to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

with a focused strategy concentrates its resources on a specific task or intervention—such as the homeless shelter that focuses on providing overnight beds and a warm meal, or an ambulance service that focuses on getting patients to the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

appropriate for certain types of jobs. As she puts it, “working remotely and workflow is better in some departments as they do not have to deal with the somewhat unhealthy political environment at work. In other departments like sales and admin runs to the coffee room... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

lot of companies spend a lot of resources playing defense. We want to play offense, we want to innovate, pilot, template it, build for scale, and go," said Mark Norman (HBS MBA 1994), president and COO of Zipcar, the time-sharing car... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

multinational resource and related investments were highly enclavist and embedded in the institutional arrangements of Western imperialism and autocratic dictators. Western firms reinforced rather than disrupted institutional and societal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

about how quickly to expect responses and learn to practice patience, he says. “If you post a message in Slack, trust that people will be responsible and come to it when they can,” he says. “It doesn’t hurt to throw your question in the deep, dark View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

revenue alone. This public-private partnership helped the city finance and deliver water to millions of people when it did not have the cash or the capability to do it with city resources alone. Second, the... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

utilities." For starters, panelists talked about how the majority of the world's controlled water resources are dedicated to agriculture, leaving precious little for drinking, cooking, and bathing.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

for private investment in, say, water projects, power distribution, toll roads, energy performance, and contracting. Furthermore, businesses can figure out what to do regarding investment in basic resource... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

water in future cities and in businesses that stretch the resources we have. That's the future that I want to see before me. Arthur I. Segel, Poorvu Family Professor Of Management Practice With a rising... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water, and unavailability of surface View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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