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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment
the Era of Climate Change On March 4, 2020 the Business & Environment Initiative and Alumni Relations hosted Risks, Opportunities, and Investment in the Era of Climate Change, a groundbreaking and timely Harvard Business School alumni conference that asked a View Details
- 19 Aug 2009
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The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
- 30 Jan 2013
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These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System
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Managing Processes
David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
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Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Ecometano/MDCPAR Stephen Renter & Raviraj Jain HBS MBA 2013 (L) Chief Operating Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems Pictured here with Raviraj Jain, HBS MBA 2013 (R) “Access to energy is a fundamental human right, and we must produce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking with us for good, often playing... View Details
- 05 May 2008
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Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
influence the stories consumers create or their relationship with a brand or company, they need to know what deep metaphors are operating. These metaphor insights then allow managers to leverage them in advertising, packaging, product design, and so on. For this... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
from McArthur in the hospital even before his family could get there. “While part of this was about managing an institution, it equally was about John’s humanity and fundamental decency,” said Executive Dean for Administration Angela... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
approach, we would worry about investment fundamentals, above all else. We’re definitely trying to thread that needle. On the investment-thesis side, we’re collecting intelligence around the fundamentals that we think will drive... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
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Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
experience working at start-ups (two of them by HBS graduates: Blue Apron and Peloton) motivated me to apply to the HBS MBA. I was also excited to apply because of the recently launched MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences joint degree program, which combines the full-time MBA... View Details
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Emily Stapleton
economy. Done really well, it also encourages physical activity, builds community, and protects the environment. With the global urban population projected to nearly double in my lifetime, transportation solutions will be fundamental to... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
mastery of leadership and management Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 6 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 4-7 hrs Module 1 Understanding the Nature... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
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Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
present over the future in a manner inconsistent with an endowment's fundamental purpose of maintaining intergenerational equity. The University executes on this obligation in determining each year's endowment payout rate—that is, the... View Details
- 20 May 2014
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Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
keeping people together when there are fundamental disagreements over a company's direction. But even these rifts must be managed in a respectful and careful way, ultimately with a commitment to preserve family unity and assets. The... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
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The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
the fundamental shift in employees’ lives and recognize that they have to radically alter their work expectations.” 4. Adjust work expectations With business practices changing as the result of widespread remote work, some workers have... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
expected impact, risk-adjusted total impact, and impact multiple of money score 5 hrs Module 5 Integrating Climate Risk and Financing Climate Solutions Understand the fundamentals of climate finance and risk inherent in investment... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
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Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
director of risk management at Henkel in Gulph Mills, Penn., explains that the objective was to answer fundamental questions about the supply chain: "Is it sound? Where are the vulnerabilities? How are you planning for... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 15 Oct 2007
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Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
fundamental building blocks of the company's strategy. “The idea is to help businesses cross borders profitably by seeing the world as it really is.” Note that Toyota's starting point is not a grand, longer-term vision of some distant... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace