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- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront 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
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth; exploring the relationship between business and democracy; and the role entrepreneurs and firms, not governments or markets, have played in driving globalization. "Important subjects... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
The Greening of DUMBO
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Abhijit Prabhu
The Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass (DUMBO) has seen a revitalization since the late 1970s. The neighborhood's business improvement district (BID) is charged with supplementing New York City's efforts in several areas, including... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Local Range; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, NY)
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, and Abhijit Prabhu. "The Greening of DUMBO." Harvard Business School Case 410-079, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA
for one’s own well-being, including responsible decision-making regarding physical and mental health. Further, HBS expects every student to be familiar with the regulations governing membership in the Harvard community set forth in this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
introduction of the FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course in 2011, the IRC has been developing partner relationships with local organizations to create opportunities for first-year MBA students to gain... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
fruits, which she then sells at the local market. "The impact of these loans is extraordinary," says Barry. "Poor women have shown that they are the world's best customers, repaying their loans and using their increased income to feed,... View Details
- Profile
Ann Chao
was one in which a school of massage therapy offered free training for blind students who went on to work in massage clinics, which funded the school. “I was intrigued by the private-sector approach – a way to address problems from the ground up as opposed to View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a wonderful gift to be able to produce... View Details
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)
By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
Teaching Note for 410063. View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that property rights arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
businesses and educators. In addition to a November 2013 summit that brought together more than 100 leaders in both fields, the work spawned a new effort focused on changing local education ecosystems, including a survey of organizations... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
the 1990s involved traditional Indian medicine, and many lawsuits ensued. But it was difficult to invalidate the novelty of any given remedy without published proof of prior use. To that end, the Indian government spearheaded an effort in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
their work experience better performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51712 Harvard Business School Case 617-007 Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
improved governance by engaging both local people and national governments is a fundamental issue. The second challenge is the impact of globalization. Whether you’re trying to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson