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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental groups; the tentative... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Filter Results: (52) Submit People Alumni Executive Education Faculty MBA Students Topics Business for Social Impact Impact Investing K-12 Education Nonprofit Strategy & Governance Public Sector Social Entrepreneurship Format Text Video... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
guide them through purchasing decisions were now on their own. Governments stepped in to fill this gap. Q: You use the consumer protection experiences in France and Germany as the basis for your book. Why those two countries? A: The... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
& Decker Co.Boon-Hwee Koh, Chairman, DBS BankChet Huber, President, OnStarSrivatsa Krishna, Indian Administrative Service, Government of India CEO & Executive Director, Dubai World Group, South AsiaBetsy Morgan, The Huffington... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the local agency flagging the potential... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
generate homogeneity within communities in regard to corporations' social activities. We suggest that there are three main factors that influence corporations to follow locally established patterns: what the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
outstanding debt. Concerned consumers can help by buying gift cards from their local businesses, a small gesture that can help Main Street shops stay afloat. “That’s an excellent way to get money into these businesses,” Mills says. Large... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
real progress has been made over the last decade, thanks in part to funding from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and efforts by pharmaceutical companies and governments to make drugs available at little or no... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and View Details
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Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA
Lavinia Teodorescu Government (AB), Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (AM) Quincy 2024 Cohort 5 “The field of fashion is about human connection. Now, after the pandemic, we need to find ways of reconnecting with people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to combat climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas,... View Details
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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
they continue to grow and get to scale. By 2015, AllWorld Expects to Expand the World's Entrepreneurial Economy: Thousands of growth companies will achieve recognition by competing for a space on one of the AllWorld rankings. Sophisticated View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier than eBay, thredUP, cofounded... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
would advocate a discontinuation of operations after attempting unsuccessfully to resist meeting government demands for private information. Some suggested more complex strategies. Among those in favor of staying and trying to reach some... View Details