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August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
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Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Climate; Entrepreneur; Development; Startup; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City; Miami

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03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Exploration creates new knowledge, enabling organizations to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. Enduring organizational performance requires ambidexterity, the ability to sustain both exploration and exploitation. Various... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed venture capitalists,” she says. “They’re not romantic at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

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utilize more strategy concepts (creating and sustaining competitive advantage, managing competitive interactions, etc.) than a typical RC Finance class, and will utilize more financial concepts (measuring... View Details

25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

advantage. America needs a manufacturing renaissance-for restoring itself and for the global economy as a whole. This will require major changes. Pisano and Shih show how company-level choices are key to the sustained success of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

courses such as finance and marketing and replaced them with courses that sought to integrate teaching and learning across functions and from the perspective of the constituents with whom leaders typically interacted, such as customers,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

with those who allocate resources might affect innovation outcomes and the matching of resources to individuals within a distributed organization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52163 Can CEO Activism Spark View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

science of building a sufficient and sustainable "winning coalition" of support behind an organizational vision as well as dealing effectively with would-be "blocking coalitions." We illustrate the practice of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2019
News

The Making of a Movement

repeat riders, we realized Cycle for Survival could have a bigger impact than anyone ever imagined,” says David. Given their marketing and finance experience (Jen was Nickelodeon’s senior vice president of consumer marketing; David was... View Details

Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 1992 (Revised April 1993)
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Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

The Southern Co., an electric utility, is planning its compliance with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Act established a system of tradeable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions. The company must decide whether to install pollution control equipment and... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States

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19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

Home underway, Bob Ryan realized a shiny new building would not solve the business’s other challenges. He tracked cash flow, collaborated with an employment law firm to iron out personnel issues, and helped Estes secure financing for... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

in the minds of many retailers over whether loyalty programs offer a sustainable and profitable business model. Retailers such as Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom illustrate this hesitation. They were early adopters of loyalty programs... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

long-term proposition that often requires years of complicated research, negotiation, construction, and drilling before a drop of oil or a penny of profit is produced. The capital required to initiate and to sustain this far-flung... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

the next steps specified, the job of the strategist is finished. All that remains to be done is to implement the plan and defend the sustainable competitive advantage it has wrought. Or at least that's the positive take on the story. But,... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

01 Dec 1996
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Entrepreneurship at HBS

direct marketing, consumer products, and consulting. Following Professor Georges F. Doriot's lead, our graduates have had a major impact on the venture capital industry, which in turn financed a revolution in semiconductors, personal... View Details

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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

First Look: March 3, 2009

Green Light

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First Look: September 25

First Look: April 1, 2008

First Look: May 17

First Look at New Research: February 7

First Look: December 23, 2008

First Look: September 16

The Making of a Movement

March 29, 2016

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)

Leading to Salvation

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

First Look: October 18

Drilling Down

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

Entrepreneurship at HBS