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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Organizational Forms and Community in the U.S. in 2005 Authors:Glenn R. Carroll and Magnus Thor Torfason Publication:City & Community 10, no. 1 (March 2011) Abstract Recent sociological theory and research highlights food, drink, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
General (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and traditional equity View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
ideas and solutions. We have three core goals: catalyze and refine faculty research ideas, educate MBAs on the value of natural resources and the opportunities for innovation and investment, and inform and engage alumni to leverage... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
sustainability efforts to consumers," she says. "Part of the challenge is figuring out why they care." For instance, MIT and Harvard researchers studied whether jeans would sell better if labeled with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
with video "chapters." HBS Business and Environment Initiative - Check out HBS faculty research and news on sustainability efforts on the HBS campus With the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR)... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2024
- News
Hungry for Change
As a management consultant at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) often worked with clients in the packaged food industry. She saw customers asking for healthier and more sustainable foods, and she herself was seeking better options. From... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
unlimited potential for the university's schools, including HBS and the GSD, to work together researching and devising practical, replicable solutions for an environmentally and economically sustainable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
with practitioners. BEI-affiliated faculty explore topics ranging from regenerative agriculture, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable electricity, to transportation modes, waste reduction, and the risks and opportunities in the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
the air or clogging landfills appealed to Cardozo. He’d worked extensively in startups and spent some time in the corporate world, but now he wanted more than commercial success—he wanted to lead a company that had what he calls a “strong View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
growing a plant-based business, animal law and entrepreneurship, early and later-stage funding, and the future of the food revolution. On the first day of class, Bruce Friedrich, co-founder and executive director of the Good Food Institute (GFI), spoke of the global... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
the opposite direction.” Gore and David Blood (MBA ’85) are founding partners of Generation Investment Management, a firm that makes long-term investments in companies adhering to sustainability principles. Earlier in the day, the pair... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
course when we invest, we want to make money, but when we’re investing in space, I think you and others might have the view that there’s more at stake perhaps when we think about our planet and resources here and whether it’s sustainable... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
consequences in the future." Supported primarily by the Dean's Fund and some early leadership gifts, the BEI has already posted significant accomplishments since its founding in 2010. In addition to launching new MBA courses such as Innovation in Business, Energy, and... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama