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  • 16 Oct 2019
  • News

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

    How to Make Climate Risk Good Business

    The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
    • 01 Dec 1996
    • News

    Starting Up and Starting Over

    in that premass-media era. Titled "More Job Givers Wanted," the article made the case for entrepreneurship in no uncertain terms. "Jobs do not simply exist," Slichter reminded his readers. "They are created by alert, imaginative, View Details
    • 15 Jun 2020
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

    process. Charismatic pioneers of the healthy building movement who have paired up to combine the cutting-edge science of Harvard’s School of Public Health with the financial know-how of HBS, Joseph Allen... View Details
    • 17 Jan 2020
    • In Practice

    6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

    clarify the complex "They can communicate very clearly and succinctly—usually with short words and short sentences—and even on complex issues. They've developed the skills necessary to really get to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Bardhaman (A): Shrachi and the West Bengal Housing Board

    By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
    A real estate developer decides whether to enter into a public private partnership with the government of West Bengal to develop a township on farmland. The decisions include whether to expand operations from the company's base in Kolkata to Bardhaman, 100 km away;... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Decisions; Private Equity; Design; Housing; Infrastructure; Projects; Real Estate Industry; West Bengal
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    • 03 Dec 2014
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

    "make sure he is upsetting things for the wrong reason rather than for the right reason." Joseph Seiler recalled that in growing companies where he worked, "I came across a few of these Type 4 people. What seemed to help... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 15 Jun 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Remembering Alfred Chandler

    academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Mar 2021
    • In Practice

    COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

    A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • April 2024 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz
    Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Judgments; Values and Beliefs; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Positioning; Supply and Industry; Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Issues; Equality and Inequality; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Denmark; United States; Europe; China; India; Middle East; North Africa
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    Health Equity, Schooling Hesitancy, and the Social Determinants of Learning

    By: Meira Levinson, Alan C. Geller, Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
    At least 62 million K-12 students in North America—disproportionately low-income children of color— have been physically out of school for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These children are at risk of significant academic, social, mental, and physical harm... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Public Health; Air Quality; Social Determinants Of Health; Schooling Hesitancy; Vaccine Hesitancy; Racial Injustice; Inequity; Inequality; Health Pandemics; Education; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Race; Equality and Inequality
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    • 16 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Times Captures History of American Business

    From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
    • 01 Jun 2018
    • News

    June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

    John L. Loeb Jr. (MBA 1954) John L. Loeb CEOs Have to Be a Little Crazy: Shenanigans and Valuable Lessons from Notorious Business Renegades by... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

    indoor air quality—notably involving fresh air and filtration—directly impacts productivity of healthy people and helps mitigate the onset of sick people. As Dr. Joseph View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • October 2020
    • Case

    HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

    By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
    Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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    • 01 May 2020
    • In Practice

    COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

    sustainability programs will need to be reimagined to include resiliency programs that anticipate the impacts of long-term climate change, short-term weather extremes and the reactions—“under stress”—of host governments on company... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 15 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

    Health Care Policy at HMS; and Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. The key... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • News

    March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

    How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well (Updated) By Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber, Senior... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

    for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now By John Doerr (MBA 1976) Portfolio In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth View Details
    • 30 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30, 2015

    audits yield fewer violations when the audit team had been at that particular supplier before, when audit teams are less experienced or less trained, when audit teams are all male, and when the audits were paid for View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel