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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Making A Beautiful Planet was the most important thing I did as an astronaut, because so many people have seen it as an IMAX movie and will see it in the future. I came away from that experience thinking, you know, all is not lost. Earth... View Details
- 2017
- Book
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
illness in the workplace? Switz: The beauty of The Stability Network is we have many, many voices and experiences speaking out, but if I just were to highlight a couple-- Elyn Saks is a professor at USC and has been very outspoken about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
my boat, and I am going to go down and give it a big kiss,’ ” he says, adding, “It’s beautiful down there. You’re weightless, like the astronauts, so you move around in an environment that’s very mystical and spooky. The only noise is the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
luxury cruise ship designed especially for the South Pacific. Bailey, whose wife, Mireille, is Polynesian, has lived in Tahiti since 1985. “The breathtaking natural beauty of these islands and the astonishing authenticity of the local... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
consumers and shopping habits in the next few years. Real Estate, a Love Story: Wisdom, Honor, and Beauty in the Toughest Business in the World By Joshua Benaim (MBA 2006) Disruption Books With this book, a blend of memoir and strategy,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
the 1950s in then rural Holladay, Utah. With a brother six years older and a sister six years his junior, young Howard often had to amuse himself. Holladay was a great place for a boy to go hunting jackrabbits and ramble through the starkly View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and productive but doesn’t feel... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
only I could think of a way to really butter them up. At the end of the tunnel I see that everyone's lights are on. It's 9:00 a.m.! Why are their lights on? And then I drive out into what was just a beautiful fall day, and it's pouring.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beauty of the campus and the traditional mountain culture that infuses the school’s offerings, from the workshops on beekeeping and pottery-making to the wood carvings and herbal products in the gift shop. “It’s the oil that makes the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s retail practice, she successfully grew their high-margin yet highly competitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
stare at his own reflection in the mirror for a weirdly long time. Momo could outrun a once-pro-BMXer on a BlueBike – wish I hadn’t learned this one. I came to appreciate how beautiful it is to be afforded the opportunity to truly know... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
At GE, I wish I’d sold our insurance business the day I got here. On the personal side, I wish I’d had the chance to work and live with my wife and daughter outside the United States. What is most often forgotten in the everyday busyness of life? There is a View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Birchbox Defends Against Copycat Competitors Peter A. Coles and Benjamin EdelmanHarvard Business School Case 912-010 Birchbox offers trial-sized beauty products delivered monthly by mail-attracting rave reviews. Seeing the success of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the individual particles moving around,” Wilcox recalls. “It was View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
old as history itself, and that these interactions, despite their difficulties, is rich and beautiful. After graduation, I will be building a brand called Kin Objects with my husband. We will be making home accessories that showcase balance in its most View Details
- September–October 2022
- Article
Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price
By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant
Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers.
In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retailing; Online Business; Ecommerce; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Omnichannel Retail; Omnichannel Retailing; Amazon; Amazon.com; Sales; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
Israeli, Ayelet, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins, and Sabir Semerkant. "Should Your Company Sell on Amazon? Reach Comes at a Price." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 5 (September–October 2022): 38–46.