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- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
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Multimedia Development | Information Technology
much more vibrant and emotional way. Robin Greenwood George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research 400+ media-rich cases since 1995 200+ faculty partners 750k+ units sold at HBP... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
international expansion strategy. Despite significant progress in the literature, we have identified three areas for extension and enhancement in understanding strategy beyond markets. First, we currently have limited understanding of the critical attributes for firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil for three years, and the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
allocation." The detailed work was still bottom up, but true change had to be driven by the top in a sustained entrepreneurial effort. Bower teamed with Clark Gilbert and others 37 years later to report studies suggesting that while... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Fitzhugh Conference Redefining Wealth: Claim It, Grow It, Sustain It January 31–February 2, 2003 Sponsor: HBS African-American Student Union Keynote speaker: Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA 1972), president & CEO, The Partnership, Inc. Bert King... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
two key questions that leaders must address to keep the mission on course while still making enough money to sustain that mission: One, whom should you hire to strike a healthy balance between idealism and the bottom line? And two, what's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the poor, by View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2021
- Working Paper
Impact Accounting for Product Use: A Framework and Industry-specific Models
By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
This handbook provides the first systematic attempt to generate a framework and industry-specific models for the measurement of impacts on customers and the environment from use of products and services, in monetary terms, that can then be reflected in financial... View Details
Keywords: Impact Measurement; Product Impact; Customer Welfare; Environment; ESG; Product; Customers; Well-being; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Accounting; Financial Statements; Analysis; Framework
Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "Impact Accounting for Product Use: A Framework and Industry-specific Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-141, June 2021.
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 12 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19
- 20 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
particular social welfare decisions. Current research: "Is Brazil on the Path of Sustainable Growth and Development?" Laura Alfaro Alfaro: "I want to look at competition for foreign direct investment through the eyes on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- September 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Buildings and Energy
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Nazli Uludere
Presents data on opportunities to conserve energy in buildings, which account for about a third of all energy use. Encourages readers to think about the impediments to energy efficiency in the buildings sector and the ways in which entrepreneurs can profitably surmount... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Energy Conservation; Construction; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Performance Efficiency; Environmental Sustainability; Construction Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Nazli Uludere. "Buildings and Energy." Harvard Business School Case 708-024, September 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- Article
Strategic Management of Product Recovery
Manufacturers of an expanding range of durable products are facing regulatory and market pressures to manage the products they manufactured upon their end of life (EOL). In part, this attention is motivated by a growing number of countries—especially across Europe and... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Government Legislation; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Europe; Asia; United States
Toffel, Michael W. "Strategic Management of Product Recovery." California Management Review 46, no. 2 (Winter 2004): 120–141.
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
problems and to do it in a sensible way and in a more sustainable way, these policies have to be taken on and examined. Where do we want people to live? Do we want people driving these hourlong commutes into a city? That’s not very... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details