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Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs

By: George Serafeim, Lena Duchene and Carlota Moniz

By August 2023, Re-Match, an artificial turf waste-to-value company, had operations in Denmark and the Netherlands and had recycled over 160,000 tons of waste and plastic fiber. With recent capital injection from the VC firm Verdane and a dual revenue business model,... View Details

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20 Dec 2011
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low debt compared to other firms in its industry. The firm's CFO now wants to revise its conservative financial policy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212017-PDF-ENG Ganesh Natarajan: Leading Innovation and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2016
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Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

and acrimony in Scotland, with those wishing their country to remain part of the UK often accused of being traitors and sellouts. The referendum on staying or leaving the European Union, called entirely because of Cameron’s desire to hold off opponents in his own View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54507 Harvard Business School Case 318-040 Wilderness Safaris: Ecotourism Entrepreneurship Wilderness Safaris sees itself as a conservation company that is built on a business... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2014
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consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have allowed researchers to separately visualize different stages of reward processing in humans. These techniques have revealed that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2020
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Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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20 Sep 2012
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US Competitiveness at Risk

whole energy situation. The US suddenly has a potential surplus of energy through the production of oil and especially natural gas trapped in shale. This development is a potentially transformational asset,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

environmental powerhouses: Greenpeace and World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF). Active in 100 countries, WWF works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

graduates and undergraduates, and taught a heavy load of courses. He also devoted considerable energy to a second big project—a book on money—but decided to defer (and ultimately to abandon) that effort. By the time he neared completion... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to emerge from... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

14 Nov 2005
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How Can Start Ups Grow?

implies that these firms would find it especially difficult to increase the scale of their operations and grow. Hence, understanding the factors that influence growth in such firms would be a conservative test of growth in other firms.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

06 Mar 2012
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Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Broad Group's products, services, and management were guided by values that prioritized morals, responsibility, environmental protection, and View Details