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- 30 Jan 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
sensors can be combined with weather forecasting to help energy companies figure out the optimal amount of electricity they should sell into the grid. “Very little human intervention is needed,” Lal says.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
sustainability programs will need to be reimagined to include resiliency programs that anticipate the impacts of long-term climate change, short-term weather extremes and the reactions—“under stress”—of host governments on View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
Initiation to Graduation By: Raisch, Sebastian, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
a sense of purpose, then it is very difficult to see beyond today's controversy. CEOs of vanguard companies know this sense of purpose helps them even when the stock price is down. They have a longer-term vision that keeps them focused... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research
In 2021, The Campbell’s Company launched Full Futures, a collective impact initiative aimed at advancing school nutrition environments in underserved communities. The program started in Camden, NJ—home to Campbell’s headquarters—and later... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
1760s, but become stronger over time and peak in the 1780s. Combining the RD model with variation in local weather conditions during the 1780s, we document that droughts amplify the effects of the salt tax on revolts by increasing wheat... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
it does in most of the rest of the world since per capita consumption is an order of magnitude higher in the United States. Coke is therefore a cautionary tale of a company getting carried away with globaloney and paying for it—but is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Business & Environment
building the infrastructure and investment models needed to scale the circular economy. Lauren explains how Closed Loop Partners supports the transition from a linear to a circular economy through capital management, innovation initiatives, and operating View Details
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Craig Husa
the CEO of multiple innovative, break-through companies including SuperCritical Technologies, a manufacturer of distributed power generation units, and 3TIER (acquired by Vaisala, NASDAQ OMX Helsinki). 3TIER’s big-data, View Details
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
the production company I wanted to launch, it was important to me from the outset, given the unpredictability of the industry, to be lean and mean. That’s proved essential. A lesser run rate with fewer expenses means we can View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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HBS - The year in Review
Award, which celebrates the extraordinary achievements of graduating students who have made a positive impact on Harvard, HBS, and/or broader communities through exceptional acts of leadership. Aaron Hancock, Peter James Kiernan, Bethany Rolan, and April View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
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Skydeck - Alumni
private sector can do to address it. How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) on what it will really take to adapt to the realities of climate change My Worst Job Alumni share... View Details