Environmental Strategies - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

http://hbr.org/search/913041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-034 Distribution at American Airlines (C) Presents 2011-2012 updates to American's distribution strategy including new challenges and disputes. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS. “ some CEOs believe they can’t be silent when a proposed government policy might lead some of their employees to be subjected... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 2009 (Revised March 2013)
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Woolf Farming and Processing

By: David E. Bell, Laura Winig and Mary Louise Shelman

Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Resource Allocation; Quality; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Infrastructure; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California

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September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
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Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris

In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo

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12 Jul 2011
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asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affect the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting the welfare-maximizing quantity when the difference... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-041 The Galaxy Dividend Income Growth Fund's Option Investment Strategies This case is designed to provide an elementary introduction to options and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

customer experience and low cost? In this book, strategy and operations experts Siggelkow and Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth... View Details

20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

For example, pointing out the money saved by tough bargaining with a union could cause a real problem with employees. Announcing a dividend may lead to anger from employees who think it should have been a bonus or from environmentalists who think it should have gone... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

11 Jul 2005
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The New International Style of Management

international norms in the area of stakeholder relations (e.g., human- and workers-rights issues, and environmental matters). Thus, among its other ramifications, globalization is forcing companies to operate and conduct themselves... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition, multinationals have been increasingly pressed to move toward international norms in the area of stakeholder relations (e.g., human- and workers-rights... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

organizational contexts and provides practical strategies for changing your decision-making processes and improving these processes so that they become part of your permanent behavior. Throughout, you'll find numerous hands-on decision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

industrial ecology literature that highlights the environmental benefits of by-product synergy. By-product synergy is defined as the conversion of a firm's waste stream from a manufacturing process into valuable feedstock for another... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2011
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The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

customer visits to those facilities. That doesn't tell you anything about the social impact—it doesn't tell you whether people's health has improved as a result, or whether environmental and sanitation conditions have improved, though... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of... View Details

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

he has known during his career. He elucidates the extraordinary lessons that can be learned from everyday experiences and shows how, by altering our perceptions, we can better overcome the challenges we face at work and in family matters. The Three-Box Solution: A... View Details

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50235 forthcoming Organization Science Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, Michael W. Toffel, and Yanhua Zhou Abstract—Under increased... View Details