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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51237 2016 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
abroad, it will return to the United States, where Smith envisions installing an underwater turbine farm in a larger venue such as Long Island Sound. A deployment of that size would power not hundreds but thousands of households—the kind of View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren't mutually exclusive. "I want founders and entrepreneurs to be wealth creators and invest in their communities and families," Enan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Generation Investment Management
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm. View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Investing; Socially Responsible Investing; Long-term Investing; ESG; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Equity; Governance; Private Equity; Public Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
global urban landscape. Rethinking Urban Areas Both environmentally and socially, the world's cities present one of the best opportunities for directly addressing global climate change. With half of the world's population residing in... View Details
- 11 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
came to try and understand more about what drove me. The more I talked about this role to the people I trusted, the more I saw how truly excited I was by the opportunity. It also was the perfect role to understand more about public sector work by completing a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there other examples that provide hope... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
multiple stakeholders, including funders, boards, and clients—all while staying true to a core mission and values. In today's climate of scarce economic resources, the pressure for nonprofits to show quantifiable results is greater than... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
individuals near a firm's headquarters—for the presence of a large, non-managerial individual shareholder in a firm. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
individuals' cognitive limitations in explaining unethical behavior, we focus on the socio-psychological processes that function as triggers of moral neglect, moral justification and immoral action, and their impact on moral behavior. In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
I coach and company I meet with, from climate tech startups to renewable energy investment funds. You’ve worked with CPD for over 10 years. What trends have you noticed over that time? Specifically, what have you noticed about the types... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
measurement argument, which goes like this: The way we measure productivity increases doesn't account for such things as quality of life (although greater convenience should be reflected somehow in productivity). Others argue that the economic View Details
- Blog
Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean
safe, and with sudden shifts in customer behavior. Of course, the business environment was changing rapidly before 2020. Globalization, new technologies, climate change, and other trends were already disrupting markets. The pandemic... View Details
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
for good in society. This report features a selection of stories that highlight the School’s influence and impact around the world during fiscal year 2021 (July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021). Africa Developing the Skills to Drive Change in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Monsanto Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
embraced digitalization, sought to broaden the reach and impact of its research activities, and begun to adapt its physical space to evolving needs and the new realities of hybrid work. As evidenced by our fiscal 2023 results, one thing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman